Edited by Josepha Sherman and Keith R. A. DeCandido. First printing 1997.

Josepha Sherman and Keith R.A. DeCandido write in their introduction following:
Urban Nightmares, like many anthologies before it, came to be at a science fiction convention, with a convivial group of writers that included Lawrence Watt-Evans, Christie Golden, Laura Anne Gilman, and the two editors (all of whom, you'll note, have stories herein). The topic turned to urban folktales and the story possibilities behind them. Then someone (we're not really sure who) said, "This should be an anthology!" The next thing we knew, we had one, full of enthusiastic authors, many of them Hugo- and Nebula-Award winners, who loved the idea of taking their favorite urban legends - whether they be ones that frightened them as children or amused them as adults - and making new stores out of them.

Contents:
Introduction by Josepha Sherman & Keith R.A. DeCandido
"Gator," by Robert J. Sawyer
"She of the Night," by Laura Resnick & Kathy Chwedyk
"The Spider in the Hairdo," by Michael A. Burstein
"Sit!" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"The Hook," by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Doggedly," by Josepha Sherman
"My Brother's Keeper," by Mike Resnick & Jack Nimmersheim
"Disney on Ice," by Ellen Guon
"The Release," by S.M. Stirling & Jan Stirling
"How You Can Prevent Forest Fires . . ." by Keith R.A. DeCandido
"Cold Shoulder," by Susan Shwartz
"Payback," by Barbara Paul
"My Father's Son," by Larry Segriff & Ed Gorman
"The Remaking of Millie McCoy," by Christie Golden
"Along Came a Spider," by Laura Anne Gilman
"The Hook of Death," by Bille Sue Mosiman
"What Happened Next," by Adam-Troy Castro
"What a Croc," by Bill Crider
"Lover's Leap," by Mark A. Garland & Lawrence Schimel
"Tales fom the White Castle," by John J. Ordover
"A Ghost of Night and Shadows," by eluki bes shahar
"The Ugliest Duckling," by S.P. Somtow
"Dark of Night," by Glenn Hauman
"The Bicycle Messenger from Hell," by Jody Lynn Nye
"My Naggilator," by Lois Tilton

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My favorites were 'The Spider in the Hairdo' and 'My Naggilator'.

Finnish bookcrossers had summer happening this year in Pieksämäki. I took this book with me there and somebody took the book.

There was some pressure to pick up more books at the end of the summer meet, and the word "Urban" in the cover caught my interest, so then three things got me to pick it up: It really was about urban legends, it was a collection of short stories, and there was a dedication to Jan Harold Brundvand. I managed to read a few of the stories already on the way back, and so far I'm happy to have picked this up.

Yep, I did enjoy reading these stories all the way through. Some of them, I wasn't really sure about any urban legend connection, but good stories anyway. "The Remaking of Millie McCoy" was one of my favorites.

I've tried a couple of times to bring this to a meetup but no one has picked it up, so I'm releasing it in the wild.

This is mine now! For a while at least. Caught yesterday from Kamppi.

This one will most likely end up to Tampere...veeerrrry soon.

Ensin kirja vapautui perjantain Finncon-miittiin. Jollei opus lähtenyt kenenkään matkaan, se vietiin yläkerran BC-pöydälle.

Lukuiloa!

Caught this from the Finncon bookcrossing table and read it straight away. I love urban legends and the way the old stories were twisted and used as settings for magical realism, everyday fantasy and scifi was (at least to me) entertaining and fun. I'm not quite sure whether I'm going to release this somewhere or keep it... we'll see!