Presents alphabetized summaries of urban legends, commenting on their origins and the extent of their proliferation; also includes articles on themes such as urban legend styles, the symbolic approach, and violence in urban legends.
A collection of urban legends--true-sounding but utterly false stories that pass from person to person--grouped in the categories of animal stories, automobiles, horrors, contaminations, sex and scandal, crime, and products, professions, and personalities.
Presents over two hundred almost-believable urban legends, and seventy illustrations, telling of horrifying, embarrassing, or frightening events that always seem to have happened to "a friend of a friend." Grouped thematically.
Reference guide to the folklore of North America and Canada, covering folklore genres, folk groups, scholarly approaches, performers, folklorists, and general topics such as film, history, mass media, cultural studies, and postmodernism.
Presents alphabetized summaries of urban legends, commenting on their origins and the extent of their proliferation; also includes articles on themes such as urban legend styles, the symbolic approach, and violence in urban legends.
Presents over two hundred almost-believable urban legends, and seventy illustrations, telling of horrifying, embarrassing, or frightening events that always seem to have happened to "a friend of a friend." Grouped thematically.
The author, an investigator of urban legends, examines the histories, variations, sources, and meanings of twelve persistent stories in all their permutations.
