Writing credit on front cover: "Introduction and Commentary by Jan Harold Brunvand."
Writing credit on title page: "Adapted from the works of Jan Harold Brunvand by Robert Loren Fleming and Robert F. Boyd, Jr."
There is no additional breakdown of which writers worked on which sequences. Artists are credited in the Table of Contents.
Letterers listed on page below indicia: Steve Smith and Gail Beckett. No further information is given regarding which letterer worked on which sequences.
One of the seventeen Paradox Press series of Big Books:
1994 - The Big Book of Urban Legends
1995 - The Big Book of Death; The Big Book of Weirdos; The Big Book of Conspiracies;
1996 - The Big Book of Freaks; The Big Book of Little Criminals; The Big Book of Hoaxes; The Big Book of Thugs
1997 - The Big Book of Losers; The Big Book of The Unexplained; The Big Book of Martyrs; The Big Book of Scandal
1998 - The Big Book of Bad; The Big Book of the Weird Wild West
1999 - The Big Book of Vice; The Big Book of Grimm
2000 - The Big Book of the '70s
- Awards