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Jan Harold Brunvand
Book List in Order: 10 titles
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Vanishing Hitchhiker
- Jun-1982
- / General Fiction
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The 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 ...
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Mexican Pet
- Apr-1988
- / General Fiction
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"A uniquely entertaining book: edifying scholarship, diverting social history." -- Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times "[The book] captures the spirit of convivial storytelling and even encourages the activity. . . . Many readers . . . will be gratifie...
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Curses! Broiled Again!
- Aug-1990
- / Fantasy
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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 and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew tea...
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The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends
- Oct-1994
- / General Fiction
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America'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] -- track...
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The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story
- May-2001
- / General Fiction
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Pins down the qualities that give urban legends their air of authenticity and make them hard to believe yet impossible to dismiss. This book is suitable for those interested in popular culture and events....
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
- Nov-2002
- / Fantasy
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The definitive word on the subject from the dean of urban legend studies.
We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true―roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees―but have you heard about the ice man or the bu... -
The Choking Doberman: and Other Urban Legends
- Dec-2003
- / General Fiction
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"A wonderfully entertaining book of American folklore and humor." -- Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times Book Review Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that alw...
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
- Oct-2004
- / Fantasy
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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 friend of a friend. For the first time, Professor Jan Harold Br... -
Too Good To Be True
- Oct-2014
- / Fantasy
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The colossal classic becomes even more colossal with a full new chapter of recent urban legends. Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? No, it didn’t really happen to your friend’s sister’s neighbor: it’s an urban legend. And no...
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