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The Big Book of Urban Legends

by Robert Loren Fleming, Robert F. Boyd Jr., Jan Harold Brunvan · 1995

Paradox Press series of Big Book series

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/Robert F. Boyd, Jr. This collection of strange and bizarre anecdotal tales drawn (ostensibly) from real life contains 200 stories that have circulated across metropolitan areas—all invariably sworn to be true. "The Poodle in the Microwave", "The Mouse in the Coke Bottle", and "The Accidental Cannibals" are just a few of the legends presented in this volume. Illustrated by artists from DC Comics. Mature readers.

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