Search - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends

Finished this a couple days ago. Some of the stories were pretty good and others were just plain dumb... but that's just like urban legends in general, right? Many of these I've heard of before, in similar variations, and I liked seeing the slight changes from one version to the next, or how different parts of the story were changed or emphasized more than others depending on the time or location.

I read this for a Media studies class on how fear and images in the media effect society. It was really cool to read some that i had read a long time ago as a kid in a scary stories book and to see new ones, like the most recent emailed urban legends. but, a lot of rehashes of the same stuff.

Lots of Urban Legends some I heard of but many I haven't heard of. Really cool book.

This book is pretty cute, but not scary. I don't think it was meant to be scary. I found it rather dry, though, as it discussed the roots of different urban legends. I have another book, "Urban Legends : 666 Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend...of a Friend of a Friend," by Thomas J. Craughwell that I like much better. It just lists the urban legend in its various forms and is more interesting than this book. The book I mentioned also has a lot of the same urban legends that "Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid" does. I'd recommend getting the other book.