The Cost of Deception: The Seduction of Modern Myths and Urban Legends
Have you heard? The president of Proctor and Gamble has ties to the Church of Satan. Infamous atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair is on a crusade to stamp out Christian broadcasting. Scientists in Russia actually discovered hell deep inside the earth’s core. While these stories are not only outrageous and frightening, they are most of all completely …
Uncle Joe’s ashes baked in a cake (Delicious!); Granny’s corpse stolen along with the family car; sewers alive with alligators… all these alleged occurrences – and many, many others – are the stuff of urban legend; the extraordinary things that you’re told happen to that elusive ‘friend of a friend’ (foaf); someone whom you can never pin …
Urban Legends: A Collection of International Tall Tales and Terrors
Don’t get in that car without looking in the back seat! Everyone has heard the story about such-and-such, and while it sounds impossible, so-and-so swears that it must be true. Often gory, disgusting, shocking, and surprising, urban legends are central to everyday experience. From high schools and colleges to offices and organizations, urban legends are everywhere. This book …
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to …
An attack at St. Anthony’s Cathedral leaves behind a symbol of the mythological Sinner—a vigilante legend since the days of the Civil War—and sparks the curiosity of investigative writer CK Ivors. CK begins a relentless pursuit of the legend, only to discover that myth is often based on truth—and is sometimes more dangerous than it ought to be. …
Most of us have repeated them. Some of us have believed them. But none of us has actually played a part in them. …have we? What’s that in your food!? What’s that in your pipes!? What’s underneath your bed!? Are you being betrayed by someone you love? Will evil be punished? Are there things you haven’t even thought …
Beyond Stolen Flames, Forbidden Fruit, and Telephone Booths: Our Own Myths, Our Own Futures
In this collection of essays and stories written by fifty-three juniors and seniors at June Jordan School for Equity in San Francisco, young writers explore the role of myth in our world today. Students write pieces of fiction and nonfiction, retelling old myths, creating new ones, celebrating everyday heroes, and recognizing the stories that their families have told …