Full name: The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Horror, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393951691 0393951693

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 provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution. The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers. Similar books: The Choking Doberman by Jan Harold Brunvand Too Good to Be True by Jan Harold Brunvand Encyclopedia of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand The Monster Show by David J. Skal Haunted Cemeteries by Tom Ogden Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix Shirley Jackson by Ruth Franklin Vampires, Burial, and Death by Paul Barber The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw