Encyclopedia of Urban Legends Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 34,9 Mb
• Release Date : 07 February 2011

"If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure."—Chicago Tribune A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales

• Publisher : Abc-clio
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 October 2004

An anthology of the most chilling urban legends of all time collected by the maestro himself. Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 39,5 Mb
• Release Date : 29 August 2016

A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 August 1990

From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often

• Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
• File Size : 44,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 March 2005

A fascinating, creepy, frightening, disgusting, and hilarious collection of some of the world's most popular and enduring tall tales. With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risqué

• Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
• File Size : 32,5 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Presents scary stories based on urban legends and includes two stories based on true events.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 May 2006

Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 54,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2018

Did you hear about the kids who found a Ferrari buried in their garden? What about the man who sued Satan? Or the woman who woke up in the middle