urban folklore

Recounts more than six hundred popular urban legends that have been passed around the country as "true stories".

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.

A collection of contemporary urban American folklore and a discussion of their meanings.

A collection of more than three hundred modern urban legends.

The author, an investigator of urban legends, examines the histories, variations, sources, and meanings of twelve persistent stories in all their permutations.

Explores the truth behind some of history's most persistent lies, myths, and amazing stories; tracing the source of modern urban legends, entertainment intrigues, consumer frauds, and folk heroes.

Examines urban legends, cyberlore, stories of aliens and the supernatural, and other expressions of contemporary North American folklore, and discusses the purpose and meaning of such tales.

A collection of over two hundred urban legends, grouped in the categories of supernatural encounters, strange deaths, sexual escapades, medical mishaps, legends of the road, tales from college, close encounters, on-the-job foibles, celebrity rumors, and classic tales.