David Emery is a freelance writer and an avid chronicler of urban legends and popular culture, with a special interest in the lore and folklife of the Internet.

Professional credits include stints as a contributing editor of a satirical newspaper, staff writer for a TV sitcom, and freelance journalist. Mr. Emery first won recognition in the online world as an arch commentator on the outer limits of Net culture with Iron Skillet Magazine, “a compendium of offbeat views run through the blender of the author’s savage sense of humor … [with] on-target skewerings of strange ideas” (Houston Chronicle). He has covered urban legends and folklore for About.com since 1997.