The vanishing hitchhiker
Subtitle: American urban legends and their meanings
By: Jan Harold Brunvand.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Urban folklore -- United States; Legends -- United States; Legends -- United States -- History and criticism
First sentence: We are not aware of our own folklore anymore than we are of the grammatical rules of our language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: New Legends for Old
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: The Classic Automobile Legends
pagenum: 19; label: Chapter 3
title: "The Hook" and Other Teenage Horrors
pagenum: 47; label: Chapter 4
title: Dreadful Contaminations
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter 5
title: Purloined Corpses and Fear of the Dead
pagenum: 103; label: Chapter 6
title: Dalliance, Nudity, and Nightmares
pagenum: 125; label: Chapter 7
title: Business Ripoffs: Two Favorite Media Legends
pagenum: 153; label: Chapter 8
title: Urban Legends in the Making
pagenum: 175