The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346536
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
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 provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution. The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers.

Folklore

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description

Vanishing Hitchhiker

Author: Virginia Loh-Hagan
Publisher: Cherry Lake
ISBN: 1534109625
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Vanishing Hitchhiker in the Urban Legends: Don't Read Alone! series explores the creepy story of the vanishing hitchhiker legend--from history to speculation to scientific explanation. This book is written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Considerate text includes wild facts (almost too strange to believe!) hold the readers' interest. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance vocabulary and comprehension.

The Vanishing Hitchhiker (Urban Legend)

Author: Drac Von Stoller
Publisher: Drac Von Stoller
ISBN: 1301803456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4

Book Description
"I still remember the day as though it just happened today," said Bill Withers. "I was traveling down Old Hatchet Trail road after midnight when this beautiful woman with golden long blonde hair was standing all alone on the side of the road. It was starting to rain and I just couldn't leave her there in the black of night. I just couldn't, so I stopped my car beside her rolled down the front passenger window, and said "Please get in out of the rain and I'll take you home." The beautiful woman stepped inside his car and Bill was happy to help her out, but this woman he was giving a ride to wouldn't be around long enough for him to give her much comfort.

The Creepy Vanishing Hitchhiker

Author: Andrew Wolfe
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1669068455
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
"The urban legend of the vanishing hitchhiker dates back some 400 years. During that time, the modes of transportation have changed but the behavior of the hitchhiker has remained the same. Soon after accepting a ride, they vanish in thin air. Is this mysterious traveler a tormented spirit searching for a connection? Or is an encounter with this haunted hitchhiker a sign of impending doom? Young readers will find out in this easy-to-read ghostly graphic novel that will send shivers down their spines!"--

Be Afraid Be Very Afraid

Author: Harold Jan Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393326130
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
A collection of over ninety frightening urban legends, arranged by theme.

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

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320886
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393951693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Presents a collection of examples of major American urban legends, one of the most common forms of contemporary American folklore, and explains their popular appeal.

Curses! Broiled Again!

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
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 believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."

The Choking Doberman: And Other Urban Legends

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393303217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Discusses over forty stories of improbable events told as true and embelished with local details which the author calls urban legends.