Primary Sources (Japanese)

Kyōfu no Izumi collects all kinds of scary stories in Japanese, tagged by their origins. Stories sourced from the internet can be found under the ”インターネット” tag, and will primarily consist of stories originating from the 2ch sphere: https://恐怖の泉.com/kaidan/#ch

Summary 2ch is a matome or summary site collecting stories from all across the 2ch ecosystem and its inheritors, often with short blurbs attached and extraneous messages from the thread edited out. Almost all entries on the site link back to archived and still accessible 2channel/5channel threads for the full conversation. Stories collected on the platform include human interest stories, romantic stories, and, of course, scary stories, which can be found in the ”怖い系” tab: https://llike.net/2ch/fear/

Ghost in the Head is a variety content blog run by nls_ or ニルス, and as such is less of a collection website per se. nls_ includes considerable editorial content with collected stories, including explanations of internet horror subgenres, and, perhaps most notably, explanations to imikowa stories and other possibly confusing materials. Many of the stories are also presented as ranked listicles according to the author’s taste, such as the sharekowa ranking: https://obake.cc/entry/syarekowa

Scholarly Sources

On Japanese internet lore and scary stories:
Hirota Ryuhei. ネット怪談の民俗学. [Online ghost stories and folklore studies.] Hayakawa Shobou, 2024.
Itō Ryuhei. 「ネットロア 」その後・SNSをめぐる電承のことなど. [“Netlore” thereafter: legends circulating on social media and so forth.] Sekenbanashi Kenkyu, 2017.
Itō Ryuhei.「きさらぎ駅」今昔. [“The past and present of Kisaragi Station.”] Sekenbanashi Kenkyu, vol. 27, 2019. 1-17.

On internet horror lore and/or creepypasta more generally:
Balanzategui, Jessica. ”Creepypasta, ’Candle Cove,’ and the digital gothic.” Journal of Visual Culture, 18.2, 2019. 187-208.
Blank, Trevor J., and Lynne S. McNeill. ”Boiling Over: Creepypasta, Slender Man, and the New Face of Fear.” Contemporary Legend, 3.5, 2015. 1-13.
Blank, Trevor J., and Lynne S. McNeill, editors. Slender Man Is Coming : Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet. Utah State University Press, 2018.
Chess, Shira. “Open-sourcing horror: Slender Man, Marble Hornets, and genre negotiations.” Communication & Society, 15.3, 2012. 374-393.
Henriksen, Line. ”’Spread the Word’: Creepypasta, Hauntology, and an Ethics of the Curse.” University of Toronto Quarterly, 87.1, 2018. 266-280.
Peck, Andrew. ”Tall, Dark, and Loathsome: The Emergence of a Legend Cycle in the Digital Age.” Journal of American Folklore, 128(509), 2015. 333-348.