Back in the 1980's I bought a couple of books by Jan Harold Brunvand, an author and folklorist who has written several books about popular urban legends. 'The Vanishing Hitchhiker' and 'The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends' are the two that I own. Loads of good urban legends to read about in those and other books he's written.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Harold_Brunvand