Urban Legends
Regular price
€87.99
al
Category=ATFA
Category=ATMN
Category=DSB
Cultural
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_new_release
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
et
Geography
Horror
Irena
Jurkovi
Legends
Luki
Marko
of
Parezanovi
Tijana
Urban
Product details
- ISBN 9781837723256
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2026
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented map of urban‑legend storytelling, from haunted cemeteries to pixelated backrooms. Across three themed sections, international scholars trace how tales of hook‑handed killers and countless other spectres migrate through oral tradition, cinema, television, board games and video games, to continually reshape the fears and identities of the communities that share them. By foregrounding space – the cemetery, the highway, the small town, the livestreamed haunted house – as a dynamic agent rather than passive backdrop, the book reveals how legends build cultural memory, police social boundaries and critique neoliberal landscapes. Interdisciplinary, globally-scoped and media‑agnostic, this volume moves beyond folkloric catalogues and genre surveys to show precisely where horror lives today – and why those locations matter.
Irena Jurkovi is Research Assistant at the English Department at University of Zadar.
MarkoLuki is Professor of American Literature and Cultural Theory at University of Zadar.
Tijana Parezanovi is Professor at Faculty of Foreign Languages at Univerzitet ALFA.
