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Other Books of Interest

Most of these books are available
at the Joey Skaggs Library aStore



The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum, by James W. Cook, Harvard University Press, 2001


Encyclopedia of Hoaxes, by Gordon Stein, Gale Research Inc., 1993


Eureka, by Edgar Allan Poe, Prometheus Books, 1997


Exile in the Kingdom, By Albert Camus, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2007


Hoaxes, by Curtis MacDougall, Dover Publications; 2nd Edition, 1958


Hoaxes, Humbugs and Spectacles: Astonishing Photographs of Smelt Wrestlers, Human Projectiles, Giant Hailstones, Contortionists, Elephant Impersonat, by Mark Sloane, Villard, 1990


Jay's Journal of Anomalies: Conjurers, Cheats, Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters, Impostors, Pretenders, Sideshow Showmen, Armless Calligraphers, Mechanical Marvels, Popular Entertainments, by Ricky Jay, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001


Media Hoaxes, by Fred Fedler, 1989


Mount Analogue, By Ren%C3%A9 Daumal, Overlook TP, 2004


Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Prolonged Ants, Horned Human, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, by Lawrence Weschler, Vintage Books, 1995


Pataphysics is the Only Science, Evergreen Review Volume 4, Number 13, May-June 1960


Stories of hoaxes in the name of science by Irving Adler, Collier Books, 1962



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