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Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780393323580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents 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 slots of pay telephones.
Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001-10-17
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780393320886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
Author: Harold Jan Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-10-05
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780393326130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of over ninety frightening urban legends, arranged by theme.
Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-24
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 1135578788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 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 holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1990-08-17
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0393346730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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 and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard—or you yourself may have told—two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection. Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."
Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2003-12-17
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0393346536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe groundbreaking book that launched America's urban legend obsession! Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legends—including "The Hook," "The Spider in the Hairdo," and "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs"—and provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution. The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers.
Author: Yorick Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596873421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever heard an improbable story told about a friend of a friend? Did you ever listen awestruck to extraordinary tales of ordinary life? Don't believe everything you hear--you've just been exposed to an urban legend! From phantom hitchhikers to deadly clouds of floating flatulence, these are tall tales of extremely dubious origin. This book contains more than 500 brain-mangling, credibility-straining stories, arranged conveniently by theme contained in one fun volume. From sex to sports, from animals to accidents, these are bizarre, hilarious and memorable urban legends. In what other book could you read about The Dead Poodle, The Blueberry Cat, Early Morning Arousal, Toilet Holiday, The Boneless Idiot, and more!
Author: Julie Winterbottom
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0761189645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deliciously creepy book for kids who love ghost stories, monsters, spiders, and more! Combining fact, fiction, and hands-on activities, Frightlopedia is an illustrated A-Z collection of some of the world’s most frightening places, scariest stories, and gruesomest creatures, both real and imagined. Discover Borneo’s Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexist—in pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Worm—and scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleans’s Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural study of vampires, and how to transform into a zombie with makeup. Each entry includes a “Fright Meter” measurement from 1 to 3, because while being scared is fun, everyone has their limit. A 2017 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers.
Author: James Proud
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2016-09-08
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1783729406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are some stories that people claim without a doubt are true. ‘It really happened, to a friend of a friend!’ Who knows if they have credibility or if they’re the products of ‘Chinese Whispers’ and vivid imaginations? Whatever the case, this collection of creepy tales has the power to unnerve and fascinate us all.
Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994-10-17
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0393346722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic. Jan Harold Brunvand—''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian]—tracks the most fabulous tales making today's cocktail-party circuit and shows why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true. The eponymous episode—"The Baby Train"—sheds light on certain predawn activities that have linked unusually high birth rates to the whim of train schedule makers. Other stories offer a revealing peek behind the story of "The Exploding Bra," expose the embarrassing source of "The Hairdresser's Error," resurrect a "Failed Suicide" Buster Keaton would have died for, and show why adults are better off not bringing their comic book fantasies out of the closet. From "Superhero Hijinx" to "The Shocking Videotape" to "The Accidental Cannibal," The Baby Train uncovers the mysteries behind some of the bawdiest, goriest, funniest, most pyrotechnic urban legends yet.
