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No Blood On His Hands, But Maybe Blood On His Psyche
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You create a character, you write about him and watch as he becomes popular, and then someone does something terrible and says your character was the inspiration. Could you live with that? The guy who created Slenderman issued a statement saying he's "terribly saddened" by the Wisconsin stabbings, and what else can he do? When you write horror stories, you can't control what a sick mind does with them. But when it's 12-year-old girls, it has to be rough, even if you've stressed that the stories and material are not for anyone under 13. (AP via USA Today)
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