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The interpretation of horror that emerges specifically from digital spaces and technologies: creepypasta, webcam ghost sightings, cursed images, deepfake horror, and AI-generated nightmares. Digital horror hermeneutics examines how the unique properties of digital media—virality, editability, endless replication, algorithmic uncanniness—create new forms of fear. It asks: What does it mean to be haunted by a meme? How do glitches in the digital interface produce existential dread? How does the blurring of real and fake online turn the internet itself into a horror text? Digital horror hermeneutics treats the screen as a portal not to information but to the uncanny.
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