The Great Moon Hoax wasn’t the last “humbug” to hit New York. Edgar Allan Poe published his own hoax in The Sun in 1844 when he wrote of Thomas Monck Mason and his travels across the ...

Poe in Lowell festival celebrates Edgar Allan Poe's works and ties to Lowell near the 175th anniversary of his death. ... Poe retorted that the reading had been a hoax.