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This carefully crafted ebook: “Famous Imposters (Pretenders & Hoaxes including Queen Elizabeth and many more revealed by Bram Stoker)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Famous Impostors is the fourth and final book of nonfiction by Bram Stoker, published in 1910. It is a book that deals with exposing various impostors and hoaxes.
Table of Contents :
Preface
Pretenders
Perkin Warbeck
The Hidden King
“Stefan Mali” The False Czar
The False Dauphins
Princess Olive
Practitioners of Magic:
Paracelsus
Cagliostro
Mesmer
The Wandering Jew
John Law
Witchcraft and Clairvoyance:
The Period
Doctor Dee
La Voisin
Sir Edward Kelley
Mother Damnable
Matthew Hopkins
Arthur Orton
Women as men:
The Motive for Disguise
Hannah Snell.
La Maupin.
Mary East
Hoaxes, Etc.:
Two London Hoaxes
The Cat Hoax
The Military Review
The Toll-Gate
The Marriage Hoax
Buried Treasure
Dean Swift’s Hoax
Hoaxed Burglars
Bogus Sausages
The Moon Hoax
The Chevalier D’eon
The Bisley Boy
Prolegomenon
The Queen’s Secret
Bisley
The Tradition
The Difficulty of Proof
The Time and the Opportunity
The Identity of Elizabeth
The Solution
Index
Abraham "Bram" Stoker ( 1847 – 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.
