Combining Black Dog s three very successful hardcover collections of urban legends ("Alligators in the Sewer, The Baby on the Car Roof, and The Cat in the Dryer") into one stupendous volume, Urban Legends is the ultimate collection of those outlandish tales people love to share. With themes that run the gamut from funny to sick, risque to informative, frightening to disgusting, these fantastic yarns are remarkable for their uncanny ability to travel by word of mouth. We ve all heard the one about the alligators that roam New York City s sewers, or how Mikey of Life Cereal fame died from...
Combining Black Dog s three very successful hardcover collections of urban legends ("Alligators in the Sewer, The Baby on the Car Roof, and The Cat in...
On the night of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of the tomb was so shaken by the incident that he willingly dedicated the rest of his life to protecting the president's corpse.
In a lively and dramatic narrative, Thomas J. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context. He takes us through the planning and execution of the crime and the outcome of the...
On the night of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham...