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The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online, by Whitney Phillips & Ryan M. Milner

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, by Gretchen McCulloch

Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, by Tom Boellstorff

The Creepypasta Collection: Modern Urban Legends You Can't Unread, edited by Mr. CreepyPasta

Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark: A guide to summoning spirits, divining the future, and invoking the supernatural, by Lucia Peters

Dark Folklore, by Mark Norman and Tracey Norman

Digital Monsters, by Vivian Asimos

Digital Mythology and the Internet's Monster: The Slender Man, by Vivian Asimos

Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies, by Jeana Jorgensen

Fairy Tales 101: An Accessible Introduction to Fairy Tales, by Jeana Jorgensen

Folklore Rules: A Fun, Quick, and Useful Introduction to the Field of Academic Folklore Studies, by Dr. Lynne McNeil.

Folklore and Social Media, edited by Andrew Peck & Trevor J. Blank

The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World, edited by Michael Dylan Foster & Jeffrey A. Tolbert

Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses, by Elizabeth Tucker

The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age, by Trevor J. Blank

Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, by Lynne S. McNeill & Elizabeth Tucker

Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat, by Michael Kinsella Ph.D.

Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), by Limor Shifman

Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet, by Russell Frank

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, by Stephen T. Asma

Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls, by Kathleen Hale

Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet, edited by Trevor J. Blank & Lynne McNeill

The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, by Jan Harold Brunvand