Jan Harold Brunvand

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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1982
  • Latest Book:
    October 2014
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Book List in Order: 10 titles

  • Vanishing Hitchhiker

    The groundbreaking book that launched America's urban legend obsession!Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legends -- including "The Hook," "The Spider in the Hairdo," and "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs" -- and ...

  • Mexican Pet

    "A uniquely entertaining book: edifying scholarship, diverting social history." -- Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times "[The book] captures the spirit of convivial storytelling and even encourages the activity. . . . Many readers . . . will be gratifie...

  • Curses! Broiled Again!

    From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew tea...

  • The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

    America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic. Jan Harold Brunvand -- ''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian] -- track...

  • The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story

    Pins down the qualities that give urban legends their air of authenticity and make them hard to believe yet impossible to dismiss. This book is suitable for those interested in popular culture and events....

  • Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

    The definitive word on the subject from the dean of urban legend studies.

    We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true―roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees―but have you heard about the ice man or the bu...

  • The Choking Doberman: and Other Urban Legends

    "A wonderfully entertaining book of American folklore and humor." -- Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times Book Review Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that alw...

  • Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

    An anthology of the most chilling urban legends of all time collected by the maestro himself.

    Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a friend of a friend. For the first time, Professor Jan Harold Br...

  • Too Good To Be True

    The colossal classic becomes even more colossal with a full new chapter of recent urban legends. Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? No, it didn’t really happen to your friend’s sister’s neighbor: it’s an urban legend. And no...



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Jan Harold Brunvand has published 10 books.

Jan Harold Brunvand does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Too Good To Be True, was published in October 2014.

The first book by Jan Harold Brunvand, Vanishing Hitchhiker, was published in June 1982.

No. Jan Harold Brunvand does not write books in series.
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