As children, many of us loved to gather around the fire at summer camp and tell chilling stories about a black hand, a coffin on wheels, or an abandoned house inhabited by the ghosts of its former owners. But children grow up, and the once oral folklore moves to the Internet and acquires new “modern” details: monsters move from old closets into the entrances of high-rise buildings, and the restless souls of the dead now live on old flash drives and ephemeral websites. This book is an attempt to answer the question of whether scary stories on the Internet are connected with social reality and what causes the feelings we experience from reading them. Author - Konstantin Filonenko, sociologist, researcher and creator of the podcast “Sociology of Stream” on Glagolev FM". The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.