title: The Big Book of Urban Legends: 200 True Stories, Too Good to be True!
author:  Jan Harold Brunvand 
description: Urban legends--those apocryphal, happened-to-a-friend-of-a-friend stories of such outlandish incidents as "the microwaved pet" and "alligators in the sewer"--are inherently fun, but they've never been as entertainingly presented as in this collection of some 200 told in comic strip format by a stunning variety of artists drawn from the comics mainstream (e.g., Howard Chaykin, Keith Giffen, Dick Giordano), underground (e.g., Tina Robbins, Justin Green, Shary Flenniken), and everywhere in between. Although the contributors' work is of uniformly high quality, some of them relate the tales in realistic, deadpan fashion, whereas others take a cartoony approach that exaggerates the already outlandish nature of the yarns. An introduction and commentary by urban folklore scholar and entrepreneur Jan Harold Brunvand (<i>The Vanishing Hitchhiker</i> [1981] et seq.) legitimizes the project, but as Brunvand points out, comics are just another manifestation of the same popular culture that spawned the legends in the first place. All told, the big paperback is a promising, affordable launching of DC Comics' new Paradox Press imprint. <i>Gordon Flagg</i>
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  The Earl Who Loved Me
  
  A Tales From Seldon Park Short Story
  
  By Bethany M. Sefchick
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to
  be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations
  or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  Copyright ã 2014
  
  Bethany M. Sefchick
  
  All rights reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  Table of Contents
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_003.html#filepos2046)
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_004.html#filepos32658)
  
  [Chapter Three](index_split_005.html#filepos63672)
  
  [Chapter Four](index_split_006.html#filepos95705)
  
  [Chapter Five](index_split_007.html#filepos124313)
  
  [Did you enjoy this book?](index_split_008.html#filepos145693)
  
  [Other Titles by the author](index_split_009.html#filepos146413)
  
  [About the author](index_split_014.html#filepos151204)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  January 1820
  
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