Review: This is more ghost stories than urban legends
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2012
I have always thought "urban legends" were those stories like "cancer-stricken child wants to collect postcards from every zip code in the universe", or "snakes crawling up through the toilets of New York City apartments".What I have read of this book (about the first 20 pages) seems to be all about ghost stories and horror stories teenagers pass among themselves in small towns, like the one from my hometown, where, if you went down to a certain railroad crossing, at midnight, you could see a headless train man bearing a lantern along the track to signal to the trains, or, the ones passed among girls at  pajama parties, about the maniac who attacked young people who were parking and then discovered they were out of gas -- I always wondered if that one was just to keep girls from avoiding the dangers of going parking.If you want ghost stories, get this book. If you want urban legends, look elsewhere