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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781607328070 , 9781607328971
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 235 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: The International Society for Contemporary Legend Resarch Series
    DDC: 398.2
    Keywords: Urban folklore ; Legends ; Culture and tourism ; Haunted places ; Supernatural
    Abstract: "Explores the practice of legend tripping, where individuals or groups travel to a site where an urban legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is depicted throughout vernacular (contemporary and historical) culture and an expression of humanity's interest in the frontier between life and death"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction , Early studies , Legend-tripping in Ohio , Adolescent legend trips as teenage cultural response , Legend-trips and satanism , Playing with fear , Ostensive healing , Contemporary ghost hunting and the relationship between proof and experience , "There's an app for that" , Living legends
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  • 2
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    Chicago : Utah State University Press
    ISBN: 9781607327813
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Blank, Trevor J Slender Man Is Coming : Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet
    DDC: 398.2
    Keywords: Slender Man-(Legendary character) ; Contagion (Social psychology) ; Memes ; Urban folklore ; Horror tales ; Folklore and the Internet ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fear Has No Face: Creepypasta as Digital Legendry / Trevor J. Blank and Lynne S. McNeill -- 1. "The Sort of Story That Has You Covering Your Mirrors": The Case of Slender Man / Jeffrey A. Tolbert -- 2. The Cowl of Cthulhu: Ostensive Practice in the Digital Age / Andrew Peck -- 3. "What Happens When the Pictures Are No Longer Photoshops?" Slender Man, Belief, and the Unacknowledged Common Experience / Andrea Kitta -- 4. "Dark and Wicked Things": Slender Man, the Folkloresque, and the Implications of Belief / Jeffrey A. Tolbert -- 5. The Emperor's New Lore -- or, Who Believes in the Big Bad Slender Man? / Mikel J. Koven -- 6. Slender Man, H. P. Lovecraft, and the Dynamics of Horror Cultures / Timothy H. Evans -- 7. Slender Man Is Coming to Get Your Little Brother or Sister: Teenagers' Pranks Posted on YouTube / Elizabeth Tucker -- 8. Monstrous Media and Media Monsters: From Cottingley to Waukesha / Paul Manning -- Notes on the Authors -- Index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781607328087 , 1607328089
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Series Statement: University Press of Colorado e-book collection
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McNeill, Lynne S Legend tripping
    DDC: 398.2
    Keywords: Urban folklore ; Legends ; Culture and tourism ; Haunted places ; Supernatural ; Culture and tourism ; Haunted places ; Legends ; Supernatural ; Urban folklore ; Ethnotourisme - États-Unis ; Lieux hantés - États-Unis ; Supernatural ; Surnaturel ; Légendes - États-Unis ; United States
    Abstract: Introduction /Lynne S. McNeill and Elizabeth Tucker --Early studies /Elizabeth Tucker --Legend-tripping in Ohio /Bill Ellis --Adolescent legend trips as teenage cultural response /Patricia M. Meley --Legend-trips and satanism /Bill Ellis --Playing with fear /S. Elizabeth Bird -- Shame old roads can't talk /Tim Prizer --Ostensive healing /Carl Lindahl --Contemporary ghost hunting and the relationship between proof and experience /Lynne S. McNeill --"There's an app for that" /Elizabeth Tucker --Living legends /Lynne S. McNeill.
    Abstract: "Explores the practice of legend tripping, where individuals or groups travel to a site where an urban legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is depicted throughout vernacular (contemporary and historical) culture and an expression of humanity's interest in the frontier between life and death"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 1607327813 , 9781607327813
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Slender Man is coming
    DDC: 398.2
    Keywords: Slender Man ; Slender Man ; Folklore and the Internet ; Contagion (Social psychology) ; Memes ; Urban folklore ; Horror tales ; Folklore and the Internet ; Horror tales ; Memes ; Urban folklore ; Contagion (Social psychology) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology
    Abstract: "The sort of story that has you covering your mirrors" : the case of Slender Man /Jeffrey A. Tolbert --The cowl of Cthulhu : ostensive practice in the digital age : the more you know about him, the closer he gets /Andrew Peck --"What happens when the pictures are no longer Photoshops?" : Slender Man, belief, and the unacknowledged common experience /Andrea Kitta --"Dark and wicked things"? : Slender Man, the folkloresque, and the implications of belief /Jeffrey A. Tolbert --The emperor's new lore, or who believes in the big bad Slender Man? /Mikel J. Koven --Slender Man, H.P. Lovecraft, and the dynamics of horror cultures --Slender Man is coming to get your little brother or sister : teenagers' pranks posted on YouTube /Timothy H. Evans /Elizabeth Tucker --Monstrous media and media monsters : from Cottingley to Waukesha /Paul Manning.
    Abstract: "Exploring the menacing figure of Slender Man, the blank-faced, long-limbed bogeyman born of a Photoshop contest, who has appeared in horror stories circulated on- and offline among young people. An unprecedented folkloric take, analyzing him within contemporary legend studies, "creepypastas," folk belief, and children's culture"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781607327806
    Language: English
    Pages: 187 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 398.2
    Keywords: Slender Man ; Folklore and the Internet ; Contagion (Social psychology) ; Memes ; Urban folklore ; Horror tales ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Slender Man Fiktive Gestalt 2009-
    Abstract: "Exploring the menacing figure of Slender Man, the blank-faced, long-limbed bogeyman born of a Photoshop contest, who has appeared in horror stories circulated on- and offline among young people. An unprecedented folkloric take, analyzing him within contemporary legend studies, "creepypastas," folk belief, and children's culture"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , "The sort of story that has you covering your mirrors" : the case of Slender Man , The cowl of Cthulhu : ostensive practice in the digital age : the more you know about him, the closer he gets , "What happens when the pictures are no longer Photoshops?" : Slender Man, belief, and the unacknowledged common experience , "Dark and wicked things"? : Slender Man, the folkloresque, and the implications of belief , The emperor's new lore, or who believes in the big bad Slender Man? , Slender Man, H. P. Lovecraft, and the dynamics of horror cultures ; Slender Man is coming to get your little brother or sister : teenagers' pranks posted on YouTube , Monstrous media and media monsters : from Cottingley to Waukesha
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