Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Doctor Dee

2 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Doctor Dee

EVEN a brief survey of the life of the celebrated "Doctor Dee," the so-called "Wizard" of the sixteenth century, will leave any honest…

Doctor Dee: Kelley

Dee was fifty-four years of age when he met Sir Edward Kelley who was twenty-eight years his junior. The two men became friends, and then…

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