Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

This book is a creative and informative take on creatures of myth and lore. I love the anatomical illustrations mixed with a dash of history and mythology. As an artist, it has helped me figure out what proportions and the like would be for fantastical creatures in a way that is easily relatable and usable from knowledge of human and animal anatomy.

This book is filled with a lot of wonderful U.L. I have always been a big fan.

This is a fairly hefty tome, though it’s not the kind of book most people will want to read cover to cover. I did so, and it can be enjoyed that way, but it seems to be intended more as a sort of desk reference for anyone interested in urban legends and folklore.On the positive side, this is the most comprehensive catalog of urban legends I’ve ever come across. If you’ve heard one of these tall tales, there’s a very good chance it (or a variation thereof) is listed in these pages. And it’s written with both respect for its subject and a twinkle in the eye. That is, the author clearly takes the study of urban legends seriously, but doesn’t expect the reader to suspend disbelief and take the stories themselves too seriously.However, if you’re looking for a lot of academic scholarship on the urban legends, this isn’t the best book for that. It does have a few more scholarly entries and opens with a more academic introduction, but it doesn’t go into great detail on the history of most of the legends, doesn’t track their development over time, and doesn’t go too deeply into explanations of why certain legends propagate more rapidly than others.So whether this is the book for you or not depends on your purpose in reading it. If you want a comprehensive catalog of urban legends, it’s probably as close to complete as any book could ever hope to be. But if you really want to understand the legends, it will provide only a brief introduction and you’ll need to do some follow-up reading.

This is an authoritative reference, but it's a highly readable one. I appreciate the author's rigorous research into the truth or falsity of each legend.

As described. Shipped quickly !

Wasn't what my 8 year old son expected. I thought it arrived according to description.

Huge book with all kinds of stories, very satisfied

This is the book that has all the urban legends ever heard of.Really good reference and this seller was super quick .

Très complet et agréable à lire (en anglais)

Awesome book full of information.

Love this kind of thing, excellent read when nothing on the telly

タイトルどおりの「都市伝説辞典」です．Ａから始まって順番に都市伝説が書かれています．単にこういう都市伝説です，というだけではなく，それぞれに関して，都市伝説の第一人者であるブルンヴァンが解説しています．日本の項もちゃんとあり，東南アジアに女子大生が誘拐される話が．．．英語であることを除けば，学問として学ぶ人ばかりでなく，都市伝説好きにもお勧めです．

I was desperate to find a good resource book that would give me an overview of urban legends, and this is the best book, at a very reasonable price (Paper back version) I have found.It provides information on many of the famous Urban legends such as "The kidney Hiest", but also provides information on the less famous (But by no means less intriguing) stories.Where possible the author has tried to trace the source of the legend, and accounting for the variations region to region, Brillant for n e body who wants a resource, but for those who want something to read this book lacks detail to make good bed time stories.Its more Fact then Fiction (so to speak!)