Urban Legends
- ISBN-10
- 1905692765
- ISBN-13
- 9781905692767
- Series
- Urban Legends
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Author
- Steven Stone
Description
We have always enjoyed being scared. Tall tales of horror that pass down through the ages. We take comfort in the knowledge they are only stories. Except the urban legend has a history. No one knows where they come from or why they persist. Maybe it's because they are true? 13 Urban Legends old & new will be told in "Urban Legends". They're only stories...aren't they?
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- 2020-07-21
- 288 pages
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- Harvard University Press
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