Several books on urban legends by Jan Harold Brunvand:
 
The Vanishing Hitchhiker
The Choking Doberman
The Mexican Pet
Curses! Broiled Again!
 
The last is published by Norton, New York, 1989  ISBN: 0-393-02710-4
 
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