SpookyWriter said:
I don't think so. I agree with James that urban horror is local legends. The Swamp Thing might well be considered urban horror.
I am not sure, but how about Bloody Mary? There was this show on t.v. that dealt more with urban horror, but I can't remember the name of the show. It had these two young guys who were searching for their father and in the meantime investigated local legends and other horror stories.
Urban horror is just horror set in an Urban environment - inner cities, derelict buildings, etc. Swamp thing is not Urban Horror.
A lot of British authors wrote stuff like this in 1990s, especially Christopher Fowler (City Jitters, I remember the name now! His novel Rune is subtitled "An Urban Horror story") and folk in the small/alternative presses like Joel Lane - mainly in and around Birmingham, which is/was a very depressing, derelict city - and Nicholas Royle [Who wrote an excellent short story called "London Wall" set in London].
I used to read a lot of this back in the 1990s, and it never really featured Urban Legends - apart from maybe Clive Barker's Candyman. There was a magazine called The Third Alternative that featured a lot of this sort of stuff (I think it's still around.)