An edition of The vanishing hitchhiker (1981)

The vanishing hitchhiker

American urban legends and their meanings

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An edition of The vanishing hitchhiker (1981)

The vanishing hitchhiker

American urban legends and their meanings

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  • 40 Want to read

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W.W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Pages
208

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Subjects

History and criticism, Legends, Urban folklore, Légendes, Folklore urbain, Histoire et critique, Urban legends, Legends, united states, Folklore, united states

Places

United States
Edition Availability
Cover of: Vanishing Hitchhiker
Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
2003, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
in English
Cover of: The Vanishing Hitchhiker
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
February 1989, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: The Vanishing Hitchhiker
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
February 1989, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: The vanishing hitchhiker
The vanishing hitchhiker: American urban legends and their meanings
1983, Pan
in English
Cover of: Vanishing Hitch-hiker
Vanishing Hitch-hiker
June 16, 1982, W W Norton & Co Ltd
in English
Cover of: The vanishing hitchhiker
The vanishing hitchhiker: American urban legends and their meanings
1981, W.W. Norton & Company
Paperback in English

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Book Details

First Sentence

"We are not aware of our own folklore anymore than we are of the grammatical rules of our language."

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. New Legends for Old
Page 1
Chapter 2. The Classic Automobile Legends
Page 19
Chapter 3. "The Hook" and Other Teenage Horrors
Page 47
Chapter 4. Dreadful Contaminations
Page 75
Chapter 5. Purloined Corpses and Fear of the Dead
Page 103
Chapter 6. Dalliance, Nudity, and Nightmares
Page 125
Chapter 7. Business Ripoffs: Two Favorite Media Legends
Page 153
Chapter 8. Urban Legends in the Making
Page 175

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York, London
Copyright Date
1981

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.2/09173/2
Library of Congress
GR105 .B72 1981, GR105

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 208 p. ;
Number of pages
208
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4259174M
Internet Archive
vanishinghitchhi00brun
ISBN 10
0393014738, 0393951693
LCCN
81004744
OCLC/WorldCat
7279335
Library Thing
118182
Goodreads
1882514
40957

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL66187W

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