Every culture has its folktales, and we have ours. Except, instead of involving gods and goddesses or princes and princesses, ours involve "some guy my sister's best friend knows" or "someone who woke up in a motel room." They happened, supposedly, to real people, usually recently, in a particular place. And they touch the most sensitive nerves of our psyches with ironic twists, gross-out shocks, and moral lessons learned the hard way.
From "The Mexican Pet" that turns out to be no Chihuahua to condoms as fast-food burger garnish, from surgically skilled kidney thieves to sexual experiments that end in the emergency room, Urban Legends relates more than 300 of the most enticing, macabre, and unforgettable of these tales, expertly told and arranged in such chapters as "Crazy Little Thing Called Sex," "Scare Me!," "Campus Caper," "Corporate Convolutions," and "So Much for Comfort Food."
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