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Curses! Broiled Again!
Jan Harold Brunvand
Hardbound with original dust jacket
335 pages with complete index
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: First Edition, Book of the Month Club Edition
Everyone has heard at least one of the legends presented in this book.
Jan Brunvand is a columnist who specializes in urban legends. He has put together a
collection of legends in this book and he has organized them into several subject
headings: Horrors, Automobile Legends, Animal Legends, Other Legends of Accidents
and Mishaps, Sex and Scandal Legends, Business/Professional/and Government Legends,
and Academic Legends.
Brunvand identifies the legend, tells the main story of the legend, and
then tries to trace the origins of the legend. Sometimes we find out that there
is a true life story behind the legend, and it just got twisted in the retelling,
and other times we simply learn that nothing like that ever happened, even though
it feels like it could have.
Naturally, some legends are more interesting than others. As a whole, this was a very
interesting book and it exposed me to some urban legends that I'm sure to recognize
when I hear them. This book is a darned good reading.
This book has been gently read, the pages are clean and bright with light wear to it's dust jacket.
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