Marble Hornets (web series)

Marble Hornets is a YouTube Alternate Reality Game (ARG) web series based on the Slender Man online mythos. It is the first Slender Man-based ARG/ARE series that inspired the creation of multiple others following its success, and is often credited for introducing and popularizing Slender Man to a wider audience, including the creation of a canon based around the character.

The first video, titled "Introduction", was posted on YouTube on June 20, 2009, following an in-game post that co-creator Troy Wagner created on the Something Awful forum, which is also where the Slender Man creepypasta originates from, the previous dayundefined. Throughout the series, the videos were uploaded sporadically with no set schedule to accommodate the 'alternate reality experience'. The primary videos are dubbed as "entries", of which there are 87 of them alongside 3 half-entries, and are often in the perspective of main character Jay Merrick throughout the first and second season, and occasionally Tim Wright throughout the third season. Accompanying videos are mainly uploaded to a second channel called "totheark", and occasionally on the main channel as well, of which there are 43 of them, one of which has been made private, bringing the total number of videos to 133.

The first season concluded in April 18, 2010, with a total of 44 videos. The second season ran from November 23, 2010 to November 13, 2011, with a total of 37 videos. The final season ran from March 10, 2012 to June 20, 2014, with a total of 52 videos.

In 2015, a spin-off movie to Marble Hornets, titled Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story was released. On December 27, 2017, Wagner teased a comic spin-off to Marble Hornets on his Twitterundefined. The first issue of the comic series, Issue One: Regards, was released in 2019 through Wagner's online store, and features Jessica and "Skully" from the web series, alongside new characters, and takes place some time after the conclusion of the web series.

Cast and Characters

 * Troy Wagner as Jay Merrick
 * Joseph DeLage as Alex Kralie
 * Tim Sutton as Timothy Wright / Masked Man
 * Brian Haight as Brian Thomas / Hooded Man
 * Jessica May as Jessica Locke (Seasons 2-3) undefined
 * Mary Kathleen Bishop as Sarah Reid (Season 1) undefined
 * Seth McCay as Seth Wilson (Season 1 & 3) undefined
 * Bethann Williams as Amy Walters (Season 1) undefined
 * Mai Yamane voices an off-screen Amy in Season 3.undefined
 * Ellis Pinckard as Man in the Woods (Season 2) undefined
 * Chris Dominey as Man in the Tunnel (Season 2) undefined
 * Carl Sutton as the Groundskeeper (Season 3) undefined