The creator of Dracula turns to true cases of deception. Royal pretenders such as Perkin Warbeck, practitioners of magic, the legend of the Wandering Jew, John Law and his Mississippi Scheme, witches and clairvoyants, and Arthur Orton, the Tichborne Claimant, all appear, along with women who lived as men and Stoker’s curious account of the tale that Elizabeth I was secretly a boy.
An entertaining gallery of hoaxers that shows Stoker’s taste for the uncanny at work on real history. Download the free EPUB.