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Libraries called the hoax "a good piece of foolery, bright, clever, with the verisimilitude of authenticity." Even today, a humorous faux-medieval
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Pearson by collecting a portion of the Librarian column in a book of the same name. Stevens is the director of the
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Connecticut in 1773 and now reprinted for the first time." The pamphlet was reviewed seriously by
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Pearson's story "The "Hell Benders" or The Story of a Wayside Tavern"” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.
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