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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends

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Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the "Choking Doberman," the "Eaten Ticket," and the "Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they...

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