The Tasaday: Stone-Age Cavemen of the Philippines
“First Glimpse of a Stone-Age Tribe.” National Geographic Magazine, Dec. 1971.
“Anthropologists Debate Tasaday Hoax Evidence.” Science Magazine, vol. 246: Dec. 1989.
Nance, John. The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1975.
The Great Shakespeare Forgery
Moss, Norman. The Pleasures of Deception. New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1977.
Ireland, William. An Authentic Account of the Shaksperian Manuscripts. Published online at http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/ireland.html
Blundell, Nigel. The World’s Greatest Crooks and Conmen. London: Hamlyn Press, 1991.
War of the Worlds: A Martian Invasion
Bulgatz, Joseph. Ponzi Schemes, Invaders from Mars and More Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. New York: Harmony Books, 1992.
Hadley, Cantrill. The Invasion from Mars. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute
Saxon, A.H. P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Sifakis, Carl. Hoaxes and Scams. New York: Facts on File, 1993.
Sommer, Robin Langley. Great Cons and Con Artists. London: Bison Books, 1994.
www.well.com/user/kafclown/barnum/humbugs.html
Instant Globe-Circling—Just Add Water
Tomalin, Nicholas and Ron Hall. The Last Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst. Camden, Maine: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1970.
Roberts, David. Great Exploration Hoaxes. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1982.
Operation Bernhard
Pirie, Anthony. Operation Bernhard. London: Cassell & Co., 1961.
www.scrapbookpages.com/Sachsenhausen/counterfeit.html
Crazy about Books
Munby, A.N.L. Portrait of an Obsession. London: Constable & Co., 1967.
Mitchell, John. Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions. London: Thames & Hudson, 1984.
Basbanes, Nicholas. A Gentle Madness. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1995.
www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=James%200%20Halliwell-Phillipps
La Grande Thérèse Steps Out
Klein, Alexander. Grand Deception. New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1955.
Wade, Carlson. Great Hoaxes and Famous Imposters. New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1976.
Larsen, Egon. The Deceivers. London: John Baker, 1966.
John Keely’s Good Vibrations
Klein, Alexander. Grand Deception. New York: J.P. Lippincott, 1955.
McDougal, Curtis. Hoaxes. New York: Dover Publications, 1958.
www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/keely/keely.htm
The Imaginary Travels of Karl May
Staples, David. “German’s Fanciful Stories of Indians Fuel Bizarre Obsessions.” The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, B.C.), (date unknown).
Sammons, Jeffrey. Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy: Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May and Other German Novelists of America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
www.cowboysindians.com/Cowboys-Indians/September-1999/The-Strange-Life-and-Legacy-of-Karl-May/