More than two years ago, Vulture published an investigation into one of the greatest online mysteries in recent history: the origins of “My Immortal,” widely regarded as the world’s worst piece of ...

Handbook for Mortals is an indie-published fantasy novel that appeared out of nowhere, reaching the top of the New York Times YA bestseller list before being revealed as a scam. Someone had placed ...

If you avoid certain areas of the internet and didn’t catch the long-form Vulture article on the subject two years ago, then you probably have never heard of the Harry Potter fanfiction My Immortal.

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The mysterious Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, author of My Immortal, has come forward. You might remember the fanfiction if you were an internet person in 2006 and 2007 when it was initially ...

The Harry Potter fandom has long been one of the biggest doorways into writing fanfiction. And while I missed out on the internet's proclivity for fanfic completely (I have never read or written any ...

The memoir mostly focused on Christo’s childhood in the New York foster care system, but it also touched upon a legend in Harry Potter fandom: the infamously terrible fanfic My Immortal. Its author ...

The infamous Harry Potter fan fic “My Immortal” is a masterpiece of wretchedness. It stars the Mary Sue-iest of Mary Sues, Hogwarts has gone inexplicably goth, at no point do any of the Harry Potter ...