The Baby Train: And Other Lusty Urban Legends

By Jan Harold Brunvand

Book Overview

America's foremost folk-detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that really happened to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant. In The Baby Train, Jan Harold Brunvand tracks the most fabulous tales making today's dinner party circuit, showing why those stories that sound too good to be true probably are too good to be true. Revealed here are the mysteries behind some of the goriest (Accidental Cannibal, The Body in the Bed), funniest (The Failed Suicide, The Hairdresser's Error), bawdiest, (The Shocking Videotape, Superhero Hijinx), most pyrotechnic (The Exploding Bra) urban legends yet.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393034380
• ISBN13: 9780393034387
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Superb!

Professor Brunvand provides an informative and entertaining account of urban legends (or urban myths). Professor Brunvand is so revered that he was recently referred to in an episode of "Millenium" which dealt with urban myths.I recommend that readers read his other books about urban legends.