Front Matter

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Articles

Introduction: Border Crossings: legend, literature, mass media, and cultural ephemera

Cathy Lynn Preston

1-7

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Robert Olen Butler's "A ghost story": contemporary legend as literature

Marcia Gaudet

8-17

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"Please send your used Rolodex cards to the Muppet Wish Foundation": folk parody, generic sensibility, literalization and contemporary legend

Diane E. Goldstein

18-33

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The re-oralized legends of Robert Mannyng's Handlyng synne

Carl Lindahl

34-62

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Never talk to strangers: parental warnings, contemporary legends, and popular fiction

Michael J. Preston

63-72

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Who incidented that little girl?: stories as pollution rites in the Ramsey murder case

Ann Kibbey

73-108

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Babysitting and the man upstairs: negotiating the "politics of everyday fear"

Cathy Lynn Preston

109-136

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Contemporary legend on film and television: some observations

Paul Smith

137-154

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Candyman can: film and ostension

Mikel J. Koven

155-173

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The haunted house in literature, popular culture, and tradition: a consistent image

Sylvia Grider

174-204

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Back Matter

Back Matter

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