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We didn't want to go, we didn't want to kill them, but its persistent silence and outstretched arms horrified and comforted us at the same time...
- 1983, photographer unknown, presumed dead.

Because the Slender Man's fictional "mythology" has evolved without an official "canon" for reference, his appearance, motives, habits, and abilities are not fixed, but change depending on the storyteller.[19] He is most commonly described as very tall and thin with unnaturally long, tentacle-like arms (or merely tentacles), In most stories his face is white and featureless, but occasionally his face appears differently to anyone who sees it.[19] He appears to be wearing a dark suit and tie. The Slender Man is often associated with the forest and/or abandoned locations and has the ability to teleport.[20][21] Proximity to the Slender Man is often said to trigger a "Slender sickness"; a rapid onset of paranoia, nightmares and delusions accompanied by nosebleeds.[22]

In 2011, Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the sandbox indie game Minecraft, added a new hostile mob to the game, which he named the "Enderman" when multiple users on Reddit and Google+ commented on the similarity to the Slender Man.[40] Slender Man was the antagonist of the 2013 Lost Girl episode "SubterrFaenean", in which Slender Man was said to be the basis for the Pied Piper legend.[41] The TV series Supernatural parodied Slenderman as "Thinman" in the 2014 episode of the same name. In 2016, American horror punk band Haunted Garage released an EP entitled Slenderman and Other Strange Tales, featuring a song and accompanying music video based on both the character and the 2014 stabbing case. In January 2016, sources within the production company for the successful anthology series American Horror Story claimed that the sixth season story arc would centre on the Slender Man. The sixteenth season of the crime drama TV series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit featured a story inspired by the Slender Man stabbings.