The Big Book of Urban Legends

The Big Book of Urban Legends


You know these stories. You've heard them all before. At parties. On the train to work. In elevators. In the cafeteria.
On television talk shows. They're supposed to be true stories. But as you hear them unfold, you get the sneaking suspicion
that they're too good, too perfect, too outrageous to be true.
And guess what? They're not true. They're Urban Legends, or "FOAFS" (Friend-Of-A-Friend stories). Hundreds of these tall
tales have circulated all across America, being told and retold by the foolish and the gullible.

But not you. Not anymore. Not with "The Big Book of Urban Legends" in your hands. For the first time, some 200 of the most
popular Urban Legends have been gathered together in a single volume and hilariously interpreted by nearly 200 of today's
most popular comic artists.

With an introduction and notes by best-selling author and folklore expert Jan Harold Brunvand, the legends are grouped
by subject into chapters, all designed to make you an instant authority at the next party where "Amazing But True" tales
are told.