Lives of the Conjurers: Volume 1

• HENRY SLADE Was he a medium or a magician?
• CAGLIOSTRO The Mystery Man of Europe
• KATTERFELTO Lecturer, conjurer, and quack
• SERVAIS LE ROY He levitated a pianist and her piano
• C. W. STARR His vanishing act was for sheriffs
• TORRINI His greatest illusion was himself
• SIGNOR BLITZ What he pulled from a hat one night kept a family together
• CHARLES MORRITT His masterpiece was the Disappearing Donkey
• THE BOTTLE CONJURER How was he going to jump into a bottle?
• MAELZEL There was more to his Chess-playing Automaton than met the eye
• ROBERT HELLER His mindreading act mystified audiences
• THE BANGS SISTERS Both the spirits and the police visited their parlor
• OTTO MAURER His magic shop in a Bowery basement was spooky
• BERT REESE What was the secret of his psychic powers?
• BELLACHINI He bewitched the Emperor's pen - and was appointed Court Conjurer
• COMUS With his Horologium, he could read minds from miles away
• ÉTIENNE-GASPARD ROBERTSON He hosted the Phantasmagoria
• HENRY BOX BROWN, HOCUS POCUS, and THE FAMOUS MR. FAWKES

1st edition 2014, 165 pages
word count: 49123 which is equivalent to 196 standard pages of text