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Books by Jan Harold Brunvand
  | | Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid(Updated) The Book of Scary Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand, Jh Brunvard Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by W. W. Norton & Company Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32613-0, ISBN: 0-393-32613-6 "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 Brunvand, "who has achieved almost legendary status" (Choice), has collected the creepiest, most terrifying urban legends, many that have spooked you since your childhood and others that you believe ..." |
 | | Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition(2nd Edition) (2 Volume Set) by Jan Harold Brunvand Hardcover, 782 Pages, Published 2012 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-59884-720-8, ISBN: 1-59884-720-1 "From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of ne ..." |
 | | The Choking Doberman(Updated) And Other Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30321-6, ISBN: 0-393-30321-7 "“The Dead Cat in the Package" (A) Jeanne Baker of Middleton [Massachusetts] swears this story is true. If it isn't, don't tell me. I've had too much enjoyment from it to want to forget it and besides Jeanne Baker isn't the kind of person to make things up. According to Jeanne, it all happened to two friends of a woman with whom she, Jeanne, works at Autoroll in Middleton. . . . The two women were driving through Danvers on their wa ..." |
 | | Encyclopedia of Urban Legends(Reprint) by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2002 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32358-0, ISBN: 0-393-32358-7 "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 bullet baby? This comprehensive and compellingly readable reference work will answer all your urban legend questions, offering alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions ..." |
 | | The Study of American Folklore(4th Edition) An Introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand Hardcover, 640 Pages, Published 1998 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-97223-8, ISBN: 0-393-97223-2 "The definitive introduction to American folklore. Distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, famous for his collections of 'urban legends,' offers readers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field of folklore. New to the fourth edition are 67 "Focus" boxes that provide in-depth examples of folk genres, research methods, and theoretical approaches, and over 70 photographs that illustrate material and performative folk tra ..." |
 | | The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends(Updated) by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1994 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31208-9, ISBN: 0-393-31208-9 "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]—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 ..." |
 | | The Mexican Pet(Reprint) More "New" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1988 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30542-5, ISBN: 0-393-30542-2 "Randolph in his book The Talking Turtle and other Ozark Folk Tales (New York: Columbia University Press, 1957, pp. 123-124) gives a version under the title " Cruelty to Animals” collected in Missouri in 1932. Here a ball of rags soaked in oil is tied to a dog and set afire. The dog crawls under a house where the rags burn loose; then it runs out the other side, leaving the house in flames. Randolph mentions a variant in which boys s ..." |
 | | Curses! Broiled Again!(Reprint) by Jan Harold Brunvand, Jh Brunvand Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1990 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30711-5, ISBN: 0-393-30711-5 "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 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 believab ..." |
 | | Hearsay Artists Reveal Urban Legends by Lauren Haisch, Wendy Sherman, Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2015 by Grand Central Press ISBN-13: 978-0-935314-93-9, ISBN: 0-935314-93-8 "The Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends exhibition catalog includes 37 artists who created artwork based on an urban legend with special significance to them. Each work is accompanied by the artist’s bio and text explaining the artist’s personal connection to their chosen urban legend. Urban legends serve as our modern day mythology. Based on cultural traditions and morality tales, these stories prey upon our collective fears and pr ..." |
 | | The Vanishing Hitchhiker(Updated) American Urban Legends and Their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand, Jeff Benedict Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-95169-1, ISBN: 0-393-95169-3 "The noted folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has written the first book about one of the most common forms of contemporary folklore -- the urban legend. All of the major legends are fully discussed, from teenage horror stories like 'The Hook' and 'The Boyfriend's Death' to spoofs of adult foibles like 'The Solid Cement Cadillac' and 'The Nude Surprise Party.' Each of the eight chapters is followed by an extensive bibliography. To aid the be ..." |
 | | The Truth Never Stands in Way of a Good Story(Reprint) by Jan Harold Brunvand, Erik Brunvard Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07004-4, ISBN: 0-252-07004-6 "One such verse contained this stanza: At last some bright day at your door will appear, The famous neurologist, great Dr. Weir, A poet and writer of much versatility, Producing fine books with the utmost facility. Dr. Mitchell's opinion! You quake to receive it, He says you'll get well and you'd like to believe it!17 As late as 1939, twenty-five years after Mitchell's death, the writer Christopher Morley alluded to him in his popul ..." |
 | | Encyclopedia of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand, Randy Hickman Library, 324 Pages, Published 2001 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-57607-076-5, ISBN: 1-57607-076-X "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 bullet baby? Do you know the urban legends from Holland, Scotland, France, or Australia? Or the connection between urban legends and folk narrative, xenophobia, and the Child ballads? You will, once you read Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, the definitive word on the subjec ..." |
 | | Too Good to Be True(Illustrated) The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1999 by W. W. Norton & Company Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04734-9, ISBN: 0-393-04734-2 "Have you heard the one about the new computer owner who mistook the CD-ROM player for a cup holder? Or the woman who thought her brains were oozing out of a gunshot wound, when the "truth" was that when her Pillsbury Poppin' Fresh® can exploded, striking her on the head with the lid, the goo she felt was biscuit dough? Jan Harold Brunvand, professor emeritus at the University of Utah, and author of numerous urban-legend collections, inc ..." |
 | | Readings in American Folklore(1st Edition) by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-95029-8, ISBN: 0-393-95029-8 "This book fills the long-felt need for an organized collection of scholarly studies in American folklore. The distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has selected 26 essays, arranged in four sections of increasing sophistication and difficulty, to introduce the beginning student to the best in modern folklore scholarship. As he writes in the Preface: These articles were chosen to illustrate a variety of approaches and folklore genr ..." |
 | | Too Good to Be True(Reprint) The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand, Jh Brunvand Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32088-6, ISBN: 0-393-32088-X ""If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure."—Chicago TribuneA fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a "friend of a friend." Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: it's an urb ..." |
 | | Too Good To Be True(Updated) The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (Revised and with a new chapter) by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34715-9, ISBN: 0-393-34715-X "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 matter how savvy you think you are, you are sure to find at least one story you always believed to be true in this colossal collection. Professor Jan Harold Brunvand is the leading authority on urban ..." |
 | | The Vanishing Hitch-hiker(Updated) American Urban Legends and Their Meanings (Picador Books) by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1983 by Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-330-26950-6, ISBN: 0-330-26950-X |
 | | TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE - THE COLOSSAL BOOK OF URBAN LEGENDS. by Jan Harold Brunvand, Karen Armstrong Paperback, Published 1111 by Norton, W.W. ISBN-13: 978-0-9650104-9-8, ISBN: 0-9650104-9-X "Urban legends ? pretty much all of them are here." |
 | | The Taming of the Shrew (Routledge Revivals): A Comparative Study of Oral and Literary Versions by Jan Harold Brunvand Paperback, 294 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-85235-8, ISBN: 1-138-85235-X "William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed to penetrate to the most modern media of mass communications. This book, first published in 1991, examines some of the different literary and oral versions of The Taming of the Shrew. This book is ideal for students of literature, drama, and theatre studies. " |
 | | The Big Book of Urban Legends 200 True Stories, Too Good to be True! by Jan Harold Brunvand, Robert Loren Fleming, Robert F. Boyd, D. C. Comics, Hunt Emerson, Rick Parker, Nghia Lam, Steve Carr Paperback, 223 Pages, Published 1995 by Other ISBN-13: 978-1-56389-165-6, ISBN: 1-56389-165-4 "Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels.Some of our books may have slightly worn corners, and minor creases to the covers. Please note the cover may sometimes be different to the one shown." |
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