We’ve all heard the stories of what happens to those who go to lovers’ lane and of the folly of flashing your lights at another car at night. We all know someone who knows someone that survived a meeting with Bloody Mary and another who picked up a hitchhiker that then disappeared. And we all know these stories aren’t true. They’re just urban legends. Right?

Wrong.

Sometimes the stories we hear are true. Often they’re more than they seem. These are the urban legends with alien explanations and the alien encounters mistaken for urban legends. The line between one and the other is so blurred in this anthology of stories about Close Encounters of the Urban Kind that you will never look another urban legend the same way again.

Featuring stories by Alma Alexander, Nathan Crowder, Carole Johnstone, Pete Kempshall, Jennifer Pelland, Erik Scott de Bie, Bev Vincent, and many others. 

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Table of Contents:
Foreword—Jennifer Brozek
“Lollo”—Martin Livings
“Green Tears on Black Velvet”—Jeff Soesbe
“Racing Lights”—Erik Scott de Bie
“Waterheads”—Ivan Ewert
“The Fingernail Test”—Bev Vincent
“Headlights”—Jennifer Pelland
“Shiny Eyes”—Jonathan McKinney
“The Invitation”—Carole Johnstone
“Frames of Reference”—Nathan Crowder
“Late Night Snack”—Robert Farnsworth
“Two Out, Wendigo”—Rosemary Jones
“The Hippie Monster of Eel River”—Shannon Page
“Roadkill”—Rick Silva
“End of Life”—Richard Lee Byers
“Tea Cups & Saucers”—Ramsey Lundock
“Gloomy Sunday”—Eddy Webb
“Mastihooba”—Joshua Palmatier
“I Am Sorry for So Rarely Talking to Strangers”—Alma Alexander
“Dead Letter Drop”—Pete Kempshall
“It Came From the Backseat”—Eric R. Lowther

Reviews:
• "I would recommend this collection particularly to readers that love tales of aliens among us, unexplained disappearances, or those ghost stories told around the campfire when we were children."
  --Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys
• "It is quite an impressive collection, showing some very interesting twists on hoary old chestnuts."
  --The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf

Cover Artist:
Alina Pete

Product Details:
Trade Paperback
266 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0982159699
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.6 inches

About the Editor:

Jennifer Brozek is a freelance author for many RPG companies including Margaret Weis Productions, Savage Mojo, Rogue Games, and Catalyst Game Labs. Winner of the 2010 Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement, her contributions to RPG sourcebooks include Dragonlance, Colonial Gothic, Shadowrun, Serenity, Savage Worlds, and White Wolf SAS. Winner of the 2009 Australian Shadows Award for edited publication, Jennifer has edited three anthologies with more on the way. Author of In a Gilded Light (Spring 2010, Dark Quest Books), she is published in several anthologies, is the creator and editor of the semiprozine, The Edge of Propinquity, and is an assistant editor for the Apex Book Company. When she is not writing her heart out, she is gallivanting around the Pacific Northwest in its wonderfully mercurial weather. Jennifer is a member of Broad Universe, SFWA and HWA.

Her website can be found at http://www.jenniferbrozek.com.