Publisher: Magic World Publishers

This is clever, usable magic for table or close-up work with a minimum of skill and an emphasis on misdirection and subtle presentation. In all, a twenty-minute act or superb table routine.

In Transfix, The Pervious Coin, Extortion, Creeping and a Wrinkle on the Miser's Dream, you get some fine coin routines; and in Uncanny Rags, an Afghan Band presentation that segues into a rope routine.

The effects are accompanied by illustrations by the author.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction
• Preamble
• Transfix
• The Pervious Coin
• Extortion
• Creeping
• Uncanny Rags
• A Wrinkle on the Miser's Dream ...

More than a single trick, this routine starts with ripping off the covers from any popular magazine. One of the corner pieces may be saved for later identification when the pages are restored. Not to be confused with anything ever described before in print. This miracle was awarded "a special orchid for an original twist in magazine paper tearing" from The Sphinx magician's magazine.

Use a current magazine from any newsstand. (Preferably larger than digest size, so that the entire audience can see it.)

Explicitly printed instructions with illustrations and many suggestions for variations - including...

Hailed as the first book to present magic for children from the standpoint of child mentality. It outlines the opportunities in this field, discusses the type of program to be used, and tells how to work with children successfully. Several sample programs with presentation and patter are included.

The book also includes a supplement on "Sermonizing Magic" by Rev. Russell S. Balsiger which makes it extremely valuable to those who perform "magic with a message."

Contents:

• Foreword
• The Opportunist
• Me and My Shadow
• The Duel
• On Guard
• The Children's Hour
• Something to Talk About ...

All the routines revolve around the idea of beginning with no visible apparatus and having "nothing in your hands."

If you truly aspire to be a magician, you'll need to be ready to perform at a moment's notice, and that's where this book will be the best investment you make all year.

An ebook of magic as you like it unique and baffling, but light and humorous. Tricks and routines developed and used over a period of fifteen years, but were new to the magic fraternity when it was originally released because, prior to this book, they had never before been published.

John Stanfield says...

Senor Mardo brings you a complete analysis of the manipulation, routining, and presentation of that magical classic, The Cups and Balls. Seven beautiful routines devoted to classic close-up and night club magic effects.

We've wanted to offer this hard-to-find title for years and are now able to do so... and at a price that won't break the bank (originally sold for the equivalent of $35.00 in today's money when first released).

Four complete routines are presented in this book, with more than 30 illustrations:

• One cup routine
• Two cup routine
• Three cup routine
• Mardo's "Impromptu...

A great new presentation by Ed Stoddard for Annemann's famous "Pseudo Psychometry" effect.

Not to worry if you don't own the Annemann original, for that's also included. This is a terrific 10-minute routine, thanks to the marvelous presentation from Stoddard and the devious method from Annemann.

Reviews:

"Stoddard is certainly cooking with gas for you mentalists. We particularly like his handling of Annemann's Pseudo Pyschometry which is being put out as Intuition." - Bruce Elliott

"'Pseudo-Psychometry' has always been a headline effect. Now in its new dress, 'Intuition' likewise tops the bill." - Max Holden

Here's a knockout triple prediction that may well be the highlight of your act.

You number three large, 8.5" x 11" cards as Numbers 1, 2 and 3. On each you write a prediction, one for each of three people in the audience who agree to assist in the experiment. Another person acts as a witness, keeping a record of the spectator's thoughts. (Note to mental magic buffs: This is not your grandfather's old "four-for-one method.")

Incredibly direct and easy to do. Makes a terrific climax to your mental routine. If we could be so bold, this allows you to perform a similar routine as that using...

Here's another psychic miracle from the professional mentalist who brought you Forecast and other top-flight miracles. Perfected Sealed Message Reading is an entirely new method and routine for reading sealed cards and envelopes.

As you know, the Q&A act is the highlight of the psychic entertainer's act. It involves audience participation, mystery and suspense. Plus, the spectators get a huge thrill out of hearing the mentalist's answers to actual thoughts on the mind of fellow audience members.

This presentation will baffle the best in the business, as each card and envelope is returned, as...

Another brilliant mental effect from the mind of Ed Stoddard. This time, Stoddard presents a book test, using any book, that you can perform anywhere. A spectator chooses a word and you name it instantly.

Utilizes an ingenious, natural method that can't be beat. Plus a healthy dose of Stoddard's brand of subtlety and refinements that make it so easy to use. Imagine the shock and awe when you present this at the home of a friend or family member, using their own book.

(To be upfront about it, while the original dealer ad stated that you can use a borrowed book, and do it impromptu, you...

Here's a mental miracle that psychic entertainers will put to good use right away. A bonus is that at the finish, the spectator is left with your calling card as a souvenir.

EFFECT: The performer writes a prediction on a piece of paper and hands it to a spectator for safekeeping. Next, names are said aloud by members of the audience and are penciled in on several of the performer's (or a corporate sponsor's) business cards. These are then turned face down on the table, so that none of the names are visible. Any spectator is allowed to mix and select a card (a free choice) and may even change...

There seems to be some controversy about what exactly to include in a modern-day recreation of a Ghost or Spook Show like the ones that scared the bejesus out of theatergoers back in the 1940s and '50s. What prevents many magicians today from staging their own "spooker" is the mistaken idea that a midnight ghost show must be a two-hour magic extravaganza requiring an 18-wheel tractor-trailer filled with expensive illusions and spook-themed props. Luckily for you, that's not the case.

Larsen sets the record straight, showing how little in the way of magic an act actually needs in order to...

Within these pages, you will find over 100 ideas, tips, routines, gags, suggestions and patter presentations with canes. The ebook is divided into three parts—Appearing Cane Magic, Vanishing Cane Magic and Specialty Cane Magic. Everything is made even more crystal clear by 50 brilliant illustrations by magical artist Harvan.

No longer do you have to think of your cane as a "one trick pony." Thanks to this ebook, you'll find more ways to use it in your act than ever before.

Reviews:

"The definitive word on all the potential uses of the Russ Walsh items, and canes in general. It should...

Here's an incredibly direct book test that not only will amaze your audience, it will stun magicians, as well. There have been book tests with external paraphernalia and book tests with specially printed books... but never one so diabolically bold, clever, simple and direct as this.

The spectator simply opens a book, notes a word, and you can reveal it immediately or later. No involved mathematics. No stooge. None of the old thrusting of a card into the pages and all of that. No force, never the same word twice, and the book is an ordinary paperback that you can buy at any drug store. Or...

Karl Germain was a dynamic stage performer whose baffling feats of wizardry have come to life again in this must-have ebook.

Several of Germain's stage, club and close-up mysteries are revealed in this well-illustrated text, allowing them to be appreciated by a new generation of magicians.

Cramer explains many of Germain's feats, including Casadega Propaganda (a small Spirit Cabinet), several large Spirit Cabinets for stage performances, various types of Spirit Slate-Writing, a Spirit Seance In a Lighted Room, the Germain Handkerchief Color Change (the finest ever invented), Miss Confetti...

Truly the most perfect, most baffling routines ever created for the famous, mechanical piece of magic known as the Jardine Ellis Ring. Only once in a lifetime does such perfect routining turn up. Leo Horowitz (Mohammed Bey) spent 30 years in perfecting these presentations. Breathtaking, smooth routines that leave an audience completely bewildered and entertained. Every move is perfectly described.

Jardine Ellis ring not supplied. You likely already have a Jardine Ellis ring in your magic tricks stash.

Now you can put this fine effect to work for you and entertain as never before possible. ...

All sleights - no gimmicks. A brilliant book of magic with billiard balls.

There's something to be said for manipulative magic, for there is nothing to hide once the routine is finished. The various moves, effects and routines can be interspersed with the regular multiplying billiard balls effect to create a blended act that leaves your audience breathless. And what performer worth his or her salt doesn't strive for that?

Partial contents:

• Hat and Ball Routine
• Stealing a Billiard Ball from the Pocket
• Billiard Ball Vanish and Recovery
• Vanishing a Ball into the Coat Pocket
• Ball Vanish...

An informative handbook that tells the secret of how to properly routine a magic act or show. Especially valuable to semi-pro and amateur performers, it tells how to put your tricks to work and will help put your magic hobby on a self-supporting basis.

You may be capable of performing a hundred tricks, but if you lack the knowledge of how to put together an entertaining routine, you won't get the big fees. This manuscript tells you how. Best of all, it tells you how to do it with those tricks you already own and which you can perform.

This ebook not only gives the simple fundamental...

An award-winning, impromptu, self-working card miracle.

EFFECT: A borrowed deck of cards may be used. A member of the audience predicts something that two other spectators will do before they know what they will do.

Anyone in the audience calls "stop" at any time as you deal off the cards, one by one. This card is not shown but held by anyone, back to the audience, so there can be no switch. Two other persons each take a portion of the remainder of the deck, a free choice. These cards are counted. When the stopped at card is turned around, it is found that it had predicted the totals...

When several of the foremost authors in modern magic collaborate with the owner of one of the most respected magic companies, you just know the result will be a great book. Originally released in a limited edition by the owner of Thayer Magic Studios, the first and only previous edition of this clever collection sold out and has never been reprinted … until now.

Features top-quality effects from Dr. Boris Zola, J. Elder Blackledge, T. Nelson Downs, Edward Bagshawe, M. F. Zens, Harlan Tarbell, Herman L. Weber, T. J. Crawford, and others.

Originally published in a limited edition, priced at more than $33.00 in today's money. Not just jaw-dropping...

Fifteen excellent pasteboard effects, all easy to perform, as they require little or no skill.

The contents include "Unbelievable Coincidence" which in itself is worth more than the price of the entire book; "U-Find-Our-Cards," a chapter wherein spectators unknowingly discover their own selected cards in a puzzling fashion; and "Auto-Graphic Minds," which will never fail to bewilder the closest observer. Plus additional tricks of a professional caliber.

Here is a collection of the very smartest magic, devised and used in his own act by Lu Brent, the top-notch Philadelphia professional...

This hard-to-find book of eleven clever card effects was ahead of its time and still plays well to today's audiences. While not self-working, magicians with ordinary card ability can do them all.

The effects include:

• An Instantaneous Detection
• The Haunted Whisper
• The Hazy Pips
• From Another Deck
• A Joker Location
• Another Joker Location
• Blowing the Pips
• A New Reverse Location
• Upside Down
• The Phantom Pips
• Topsy-Turvy Location

Acclaimed by close-up masters including Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller, McMillen and Brown were known as the most skillful card performers on the Pacific coast. Those who knew...

An entire act performed with any piece of rope.

A rope routine that is out of this world. Completely explained in these illustrated directions. Broken down into ten, easy-to-master steps to make learning a breeze. Includes patter, so you can keep your audience in stitches throughout.

As used by many professionals. A natural for the entertainer who travels light, as all you need is rope and a pair of scissors. No magnets, rubber cement, snaps, tape, wires, black art, or other gimmicks to worry about. Use any rope.

"I recommend it without hesitation." - Bill Larsen

"Sandsational Rope is the single...

It talks, it answers questions, it floats, etc. The most complete treatise on the talking skull ever published. The Talking Skull is an entertaining and versatile effect that will find a place in any magician's act. It's as much at home in a Midnight Spook Show as it is in a straight magic routine. It plays as well on a nightclub floor as it does on television. The Talking Skull can be performed as seriously as the occasion requires, or it can provide much-needed comic relief in between the more serious effects in your show.

There have been a number of methods for the Talking Skull released...

At long last this booklet of seven new routines for use with your Chinatown Quarter (they also work with the Chinatown Half and Chinatown Dollar) is once again available. Leave it to the fertile mind of "Hen" Fetsch to come up with these clever money mysteries with which you can enchant most any audience. Get that Chinatown quarter, half or dollar coin you already own out of your magic drawer and put it to use.

Contents:

• Foreword by T. A. Whitney
• Chinatown Finale
• Chinatown Flip
• Chinatown Surprise
• Chinatown Letter
• Chinatown In-Out
• Chinatown Buddha
• Chinatown Monte
• Additional References ...