Lures of the Lurid

Is this what we should be talking about today — how on-line horror stories inspire the young to acts of violence? Teenagers murder or attempt to murder each other every day, so there’s no fame without crazy details. We’re still talking about Elliot Rodgers and the “pick-up artist” websites that might have inspired him. As we feel drawn to peer into other people’s possibly unsound minds, we are submitting our own impressionable minds to the lures of the lurid.

Via In Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls are said to have stabbed another 12-year-old girl 19 times to win favor from Slender Man, a character they read about on the internet @ Althouse:

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