The Vanishing Hitchhiker

American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

By: Jan Harold Brunvand

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Paperback | 26 January 1983 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"A uniquely entertaining book, edifying scholarship, diverting social history." -- Elaine Kendall - Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Preface	p. xi
New Legends for Old	p. 1
Notes	p. 16
The Classic Automobile Legends	p. 19
Notes	p. 40
The Hook" and Other Teenage Horrors	p. 47
Notes	p. 69
Dreadful Contaminations	p. 75
Notes	p. 98
Purloined Corpses and Fear of the Dead	p. 103
Notes	p. 122
Dalliance, Nudity, and Nightmares	p. 125
Notes	p. 149
Business Ripoffs: Two Favorite Media Legends	p. 153
Notes	p. 171
Urban Legends in the Making	p. 175
Notes	p. 184
Afterword	p. 187
Glossary of Terms in Urban Legend Study	p. 193
Appendix: Collecting and Studying Urban Legends	p. 197
Index	p. 203
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