Urban Legends Books

The following books are available through Amazon.com, the world's biggest internet bookstore. You can search for more books on more subjects if you like once you get there. These books are also available in most good book stores.

You can also look at some spooky non-UL books here

just lookit that cute sewergator willya?  click on this image to see a closeup The Big Book of Urban Legends (The Big book Series)

Jan Harold Brunvand / Paperback / Published 1994

A compendium of 200 urban legends, in graphic novel format, each one illustrated by a different artist.

ISBN 1563891654

you'll never believe what he's got caught in his throat The Choking Doberman : And Other 'New' Urban Legends

Jan Harold Brunvand / Paperback / Published 1986

ISBN 0393303217.

there goes that darn train again, now we're awake and there's nothing to do at 5am...except... The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

Jan Harold Brunvand / Paperback / 1994

ISBN 0393312089

do I smell something cooking? Curses! Broiled Again! : The Hottest Urban Legends Going

Jan Harold Brunvand / Paperback / Published 1990

ISBN 0393307115

sweet lil' thing, it's cute, cuddly, and deadly! Mexican Pet

Jan Harold Brunvand / Paperback / Published 1988

ISBN 0393305422

spooky! The Vanishing Hitchhiker : American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

Jan Harold Brunvand / Paperback / Published 1989

ISBN 0393951693

no picture 'cause there's no book yet not yet published as of 3/2/99

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

Jan Harold Brunvand / Hardcover / Published 1999

ISBN 0393047342

The Exploding Toilet : Tales Too Funny to Be True

Catherine Daly-Weir, et al / Paperback / Published 1998

ISBN 0064407020

The Chicken-Fried Rat : Tales Too Gross to Be True

Cylin Busby, et al / Paperback / Published 1998

ISBN 0064407012

The Baby-Sitter's Nightmare : Tales Too Scary to Be True

Kristin Gilson, et al / Paperback / Published 1998

ISBN 0064407004

The following are more serious works; worth reading if you are really interested in the collection and preservation of folklore in an academic way.
Readings in American Folklore
Jan Harold Brunvand / Paperback / Published 1979
ISBN 0393950298

Folklore : A Study and Research Guide
Jan Harold Brunvand
ISBN 0312297505

Guide for Collectors of Folklore in Utah
Jan H. Brunvand
ISBN 0874800846

Guide for Collectors of Folklore in Utah
Jan H. Brunvand
ISBN 0874800803

last modified March 2, 1999