Impostors and imposture books

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

P. T. Barnum

The work is a sprawling nonfiction survey in which the famed showman P. T.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a sweeping survey of…

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3

Charles Mackay

Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1

Charles Mackay

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2

Charles Mackay

Sketches of imposture, deception, and credulity

R. A. Davenport

Claimants to Royalty

John Henry Ingram