Haunting Urban Legends
Author: Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1429699833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Spooky retellings of well-known urban legends"--Provided by publisher.
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Be Afraid Be Very Afraid
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.
Urban Legends
Author: Ngaire E. Genge
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2010-06-09
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0307560937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban Legends is a remarkably complete collection of the modern myths that make the rounds in offices, college dorms, and every other place where people tell the stories that spring from our deepest fears and fascinations. Every culture has its folktales including ours. Except, instead of involving gods and goddesses or princes and princesses, ours involve "some guy my sister's best friend knows" or "someone who woke up in a motel room." They happened, supposedly, to real people, usually recently, in a particular place. And they touch the most sensitive nerves of our psyches with ironic twists, gross-out shocks, and moral lessons learned the hard way. From the classic tale "The Mexican Pet" in which the "dog" turns out to be no Chihuahua to the more unappetizing story of condoms as fast-food burger garnish, from surgically skilled kidney thieves to sexual experiments that end in the emergency room, Urban Legends relates more 300 of the most enticing, macabre, and unforgettable tales. Expertly told, they are arranged in such chapters as "Crazy Little Thang Called Sex," "Oh, Scare Me," "Campus Capers," "Corporate Convolutions," and "So Much For Comfort Food." Fascinating, chilling, and occasionally repulsive, Urban Legends has all your favorites and hundreds more.
Ghosts and Legends of Yonkers
Author: Jason Medina
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-08-31
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1625850522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormer NYPD officer and current ghost hunter Jason Medina travels up the Hudson River to a hotbed of paranormal activity. The quiet New York suburb of Yonkers hides a history of hauntings. Now converted into apartments, old Public School 13 is the site of strange apparitions that may be ghosts of former students and teachers who died in a tragic fire. The Boyce Thompson Institute’s lofty goal of solving world hunger was never met, and unfulfilled spirits are said to lurk in its abandoned laboratory. Wealthy colonial landowners still watch over stately historic homes like Philipse Manor Hall. Even the iconic Untermyer Park is a playground for the otherworldly. Local ghost investigator Jason Medina reveals these and other ghosts of Yonkers.
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
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.
Picture Yourself Legend Tripping
Author: Jeff Belanger
Publisher:
Published: 2010-06-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781435456396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is legend tripping? There's a good chance you've already done it. Remember sneaking off into that cemetery at night as a kid to see if there were any ghosts? What about hearing there was a monster lurking in that old abandoned building and wanting to check it out? Or reading about a UFO landing site and wanting to plan your next vacation in the area so you could stand where the craft was said to have left its mark? That's legend tripping. But it's also so much more. Any television program you've ever seen that explores haunted places, ancient mysteries, UFO sightings, or strange creatures is legend tripping. First there was a story: a legend that was born and grew because people had unexplained experiences and shared what they saw, heard, and felt. In Picture Yourself Legend Tripping: Your Complete Guide to Finding UFOs, Monsters, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in Your Own Backyard, you'll learn how to find, explore, and document these amazing, and often paranormal, occurrences. And you don't need expensive equipment or training, because this book will show you how to have an incredible adventure in your own backyard this weekend. Bring your open mind and your sense of wonder. Get ready for legend tripping!
Spine-Tingling Urban Legends
Author: Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Published: 2017-08
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1512434051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts several popular urban legends, from Bigfoot to Bloody Mary.
Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane Goldstein
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2007-09-15
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0874216818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
A Haunted History of Invisible Women
Author: Leanna Renee Hieber
Publisher: Citadel
Published: 2022-09-27
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 080654158X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious mansion this offbeat, insightful, first-ever book of its kind from the brilliant guides behind 'Boroughs of the Dead,' featured on NPR.org, The New York Times, and Jezebel, explores the history behind America's female ghosts, the stereotypes, myths, and paranormal tales that swirl around them, what their stories reveal about us--and why they haunt us"--
The Field Guide to North American Hauntings
Author: W. Haden Blackman
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor today's huge cult of the supernatural, this companion to "The Field Guide of North American Monsters" explores the country's most haunted places and the stories behind them. 40 photos.
