of his series "The Literati of New York City" which appeared in Godey's Lady's Book. Legacy Nate DiMeo's historical podcast The Memory Palace dedicated a 2010 episode to the Great Moon Hoax entitled "The Moon in the Sun". The hoax inspired a three part musical by composer Matt Dahan as part of his musical radio series Pulp Musicals. Richard Adams Locke and the Great Moon Hoax are fictionalized in chapter 14 of Félix J. Palma's 2012 novel "The Map of the Sky". See also The Man in the Moone A Trip to the Moon, a 1902 French science fiction film in which the Moon is inhabited by insect-like aliens Lunarcy! A True Story, novel written by Lucian of Samosata featuring bizarre encounters on the Moon Moon landing conspiracy theories Life on Mars References Other sources Evans, David S., "The Great Moon Hoax", Sky & Telescope, 196 (September 1981) and 308 (October 1981). Goodman, Matthew, The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (New York: Basic Books, 2008) External links The Moon Hoax (1859 reprint) at Internet Archive The Moon Hoax eBook at Project Gutenberg "The Great Moon Hoax of 1835" by R. J. Brown at HistoryReference.org (archived 2016-02-24) "Episode 24: The Moon in the Sun" (2010 podcast) at The Memory Palace "The Great Moon Hoax of 1835" (after 2011) at The Museum of Hoaxes – with linked transcripts of the 6 newspaper articles "The Great Moon Hoax of 1835" (2011) at Victorian Gothic (archived 2017-06-30) "Richard Adams Locke" by Edgar Allan Poe – biographical essay from 1846 series The Literati of New York City "Belief, Legend, and the Great Moon Hoax" (2014) at Library of Congress "The 'Great Moon Hoax' that fooled the world" (2022 podcast) at BBC Global News Ltd Journalistic hoaxes Hoaxes in science Fiction set on the Moon Moon myths 1835 in the United States Hoaxes in the United States 19th-century hoaxes August 1835 events Written fiction presented as fact Works involved in plagiarism controversies