Hoaxes

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences, and April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes. ...more

The Museum of Hoaxes
The Fairy Ring
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
The Coming of the Fairies
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Martian Ghost Centaur
It Came From the Sky
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
Three Cups of Deceit by Jon KrakauerThe Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoySarah by J.T. LeRoyBunk by Kevin YoungHarold's End by J.T. LeRoy
Hoaxes And Publicity Stunts
43 books — 8 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Dirty Version by Medina FarisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
327 books — 143 voters

Dreadful California by Lucius BeebeThe Bank of America of Louisiana by Jim  MorrisonSmith and Schmidt in Africa, Hottentot Blue-Book by C.M. SeyppelFeodor Vladimir Larrovitch - An Appreciation of His Life and ... by William George JordanBilltry by Mary Kyle Dallas
Super Cherries
100 books — 1 voter

The Cottingley Secret by Hazel GaynorThe Cottingley Fairies by Ana SenderThe Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan DoyleCottingley by Alison LittlewoodThe Cottingley Cuckoo by A.J. Elwood
Cottingley Fairies
14 books — 10 voters
The Lazlo Letters by Don NovelloThe Timewaster Letters by Robin CooperIdiot Letters by Paul RosaLetters from a Nut by Ted L. NancyThe Life and Death of Rochester Sneath by Humphry Berkeley
Joke Letters
9 books — 7 voters


Donald Firesmith
Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.
Donald G. Firesmith, What Lurks Below

Adam Hochschild
Bruce Gilley is right, that I was misleading in respect to one quotation I cited from another official, Charles Lemaire. I am sorry about that and it should be corrected. Lemaire was a more complicated case. His early diaries, which I quote elsewhere in the book, unroll a lengthy list of villages he ordered burned to the ground and a triumphant roster of death tolls: “20 natives killed” here, “around 15 blacks killed” there, and many more such boasts. But later in life, to his credit, Lemaire ha ...more
Adam Hochschild, The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind

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