The fanmade computer game Slender: The Eight Pages‘ sequel Slender: The Arrival‘s beta is now available.

Slender: The Arrival‘s official website allows players to access the beta for the next iteration in the independently made horror game series for the price of a $5 pre-order, as was reported by IGN.com.

The full game will release on March 26 for PC, and “on Mac shortly after that.”

Slenderman is an Internet-created monster, originating back to a Something Awful Forums thread in 2009 that called for a competition to create the freakiest original mythical creature in an edited picture. He has a blank white slate for a face, always wears a suit, is unnaturally tall, and has long, tentacle-like arms.

The original pictures from the Something Awful Forums post of Slenderman. Note him ominously creeping in the background of both pictures.

The original post for Slenderman had spooky text accompanying it, one of which eerily stating “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…”

Since then, Slenderman’s popularity has erupted within the Internet community, spurring two wildly intense YouTube Alternate Reality Game (ARG) series, with Marble Hornets being the most popular, and EverymanHYBRID following close in its footsteps. Fans of The Blaire Witch Project will note the similar found-footage style in these YouTube horror series.

Slenderman as he appears in the EverymanHYBRID YouTube series. He is usually accompanied with audio and video tearing, along with headaches, amnesia, sirens, and the screams of children.

The video game Slender: The Eight Pages was released for free on the Internet a few months ago, and is still available to play on the game’s official site. The first game was a first-person one in which the player controlled a flashlight in the middle of a forest with skinny trees and objects recognizable from the Marble Hornets series. Players are meant to collect eight pages stuck in abandoned buildings and posted on trees before they are caught by Slenderman.

The sequel promises to offer different levels of difficulty, but will still leave in the original intense difficulty present in the original. The makers of the Marble Hornets series are said to have worked in tandem with independent studio Blue Isle Studios in the creation of this game.

Watch the teaser trailer for Slender: The Arrival below.

Are you excited for the official Slender sequel? Did you know about Slenderman before reading this, or was this article your first introduction to the Internet-made monster?

Featured image credit: Gameinformer.com
Images credit: KnowYourMeme.com (Something Awful Forums original images), Tumblr (EverymanHYBRID picture)