These bookreviews were written specifically with the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) in mind. Here is a brief description of what I think goes on in that newsgroup. Here are some essays I wrote for AFU.

Urban Legends
by Ngaire E. Genge
Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies
by Patricia Turner
The Demon-Haunted World
by Carl Sagan
The Pinkertons - The Detective Dynasty That Made History
by James D. Horan
Legends, Lies, & Cherished Myths of World History
by Richard Shenkman
If No News, Send Rumors
by Stephen Bates
They All Laughed
by Ira Flatow
The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
Myth-Informed
by Paul Dickson and Joseph C. Goulding
Corporate Legends & Lore
by Peg C. Neuhauser
How Did They Die
by Norman Donaldson