Books by Jan Harold Brunvand and Complete Book Reviews

Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going

Jan Harold Brunvand, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-393-30711-5

Syndicated columnist Brunvand here presents a collection of columns about legends that haunt the public consciousness but have little or no basis in fact, including tales of poisonous snakes in amusement parks, airline pilots locked out of their...

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The Mexican Pet: More ""New"" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites

Jan Harold Brunvand, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-393-02324-4

Folkloric legends defined as ""oral accounts of strange occurences'' by annotator-interpreter Brunvand often have the same theme with variations of detail, style and locale depending on the narrator. The author's diverting new collection, following...

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Curses, Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going

Jan Harold Brunvand, Author W. W. Norton & Company $18.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-393-02710-5

Syndicated columnist and University of Utah folklore professor Brunvand here presents a collection of columns about legends that haunt the public consciousness but have little or no basis in fact. The title piece concerns a young woman who frequents

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Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends

Jan Harold Brunvand, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-393-04734-9

If a story sounds too good to be true, well, then it's probably an urban legend. Brunvand, the nation's leading authority on these contemporary folktales, draws from five previous collections (The Choking Doberman, Curses! Broiled Again!, etc.),...

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Baby Train

Jan Harold Brunvand, Author, Brunvand, Author W. W. Norton & Company $20.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-393-03438-7

Brunvand, an English professor at the University of Utah and author of four previous collections of modern folklore, including The Vanishing Hitchhiker , here offers another engaging compilation. He groups these resonant anecdotes, found in slightly

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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends

Jan Harold Brunvand, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-32613-0

Rum flavored by a dead man in the cask; black widow spiders nesting in beehive hairdos; women's intestines broiled by tanning booths; teenage couples menaced by men with hooks for hands: if these are the sorts of tales that thrill and chill you,...

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