Campus Legends: A Handbook, by Elizabeth Tucker. Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 2005. 212 pages, photographs, works cited, glossary, bibliography, list of web resources, index, $55.00 cloth.

As a not-too-distant graduate of the Department of Folk Studies at Western Kentucky University, with my own interest in legends, I was excited to be given the opportunity to review Campus Legends: A Handbook, by Elizabeth Tucker. As I read I fondly remembered the first time I heard a campus legend ("The Roommate's Death"), the first time I was given the assignment to collect a legend from a classmate, and the first time I was able to recognize a story as legend rather than as someone's personal ...