The Slenderman Mysteries An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life – Nick Redfern
It’s the dead of night; you are fast asleep. Suddenly, you are wide awake but unable to move. Hunched over you in the shadows is…
Category: Urban Legends
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends – Jan Harold Brunvand
A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a “friend of a friend.” Alligators in the…
London Urban Legends The Corpse on the Tube and Other Stories – Scott Wood
How long has a corpse been staring out at passengers on the tube? Was London Bridge really shipped abroad by an American thinking he’d bought…
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings – Jan Harold Brunvand
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…
Urban Legends: Bizarre Tales You Won’t Believe – James Proud
Bizarre tales you won’t believe of The Titanic, nuclear cockroaches, alligators in the subway, the two-headed dog, Black Bart the Pirate, Bonnie and Clyde, The…
I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore – Linda S. Godfrey
Which came first–the monster or the myth? Journalist Linda Godfrey investigates present-day encounters with mysterious creatures of old. The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and…
Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends – David Wilton
Do you believe that Ring Around the Rosie refers to the Black Death? Or that Eskimos have 50 (or 500) words for “snow”? Or that…
The Big Book of Urban Legends: 200 True Stories, Too Good to be True! – Jan Harold Brunvand
This collection of strange and bizarre anecdotal tales drawn (ostensibly) from real life contains 200 stories that have circulated across metropolitan areas–all invariably sworn to…
The 500 Best Urban Legends Ever! – Yorick Brown, Mike Flynn
Have you ever heard an improbable story told about a friend of a friend? Did you ever listen awestruck to extraordinary tales of ordinary life?…
Urban Legends – Nick Harding
To many, Urban Legends are nothing more than harmless tales told round a camp fire, in a dormitory or round a table in a pub…