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Build your own Shadow Box. A light shines through a box and there is clearly nobody inside. Then suddenly a shadow emerges and a person is standing inside the box.

These instructions are for magicians who want to build their own illusions. Clear 3D drawings are provided, showing all angles. Included is a complete part list. Exact measurements are given. These instructions are much easier to understand than normal plans available on the market today. A little woodworking skill and a few tools is all you need to start building.

1st edition 2015, 23 pages.

Build a base that looks thinner than it actually is.

These instructions are for magicians who want to build their own illusions. Clear 3D drawings are provided, showing all angles. Included is a complete part list. Exact measurements are given. These instructions are much easier to understand than normal plans available on the market today. A little woodworking skill and a few tools is all you need to start building.

1st edition 2015, 31 pages.

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The performer randomly places 16 numbered cards onto the table. The spectator randomly chooses 4 quarter-sized cards from a deck of quartered cards and places them randomly onto the number cards. The spectator and the magician summarize the 4 chosen numbers. The performer counts down the same number of cards as the sum from a shuffled normal-sized deck of cards to get a random card. The performer turns the four, chosen, quarter cards face up. Together they form a whole jumbo card. The spectator turns the randomly determined, normal-sized card face up, and it is the same as the jumbo card. ...

A mix of Time Travelers, Time Capsules, and BOF Bonuses.

1st edition 2015, 120 pages.

Clearly Mental contains 11 entertaining mental routines, including a subtlety used by one of America's most prominent performers to ensure that a beautiful woman is selected as a volunteer.

Inside these 58 pages, McCarron explains not only routines, but 30 additional ideas for coming up with your own custom-crafted effects.

The Name Game - Reveal the names two spectators are trying hard not to think of.

Easy Money - Two spectators take turns attempting to exchange their $1 bill for a $5, $20, or $100 bill.

Autograph Party - Audience members write the names of their favorite celebrities...

CONTENTS:

• TWINK PLUS (Max Maven): Two cards selected by you and two selected by a spectator match.
• OLDFINGER (Arthur Setterington): A box contains a finger which is laid on a face-down card. A lady is invited to remove the card. Suddenly the finger comes alive and jump into a vertical position. The card is a duplicate of a previously selection.
• SECONDS OUT (Al Smith): Simply stated, the effect is that of a quadruple coincidence.
• KRIX (Al Smith): A version of the Twisting The Aces trick, using the A-2-3-4 of one suit with a surprise ending.
• EVEN BREAK (Walt Lees): You show two cards and request a spectator to...

[Note that this volume has actually only 9 effects.]

CONTENTS:

• FINGERED 2 (Simon Lovell): A unique revelation of a selected card with a transposition.
• IT'S ME! (Solyl Kundu): Three cards show a picture of a magic wand. All three cards change into mirrors. Finally, you have a card with a mirror, a card with a wand and the third card with your picture (or your business card)
• COIN IN BALLOON (Angelo Carbone): A coin is thrown towards a balloon and magically appears inside the balloon that can be examined.
• HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF? (Melvin LeHair): An easy "Find The Lady" routine with a Queen and four Aces.
• CHEEKY RING (Ali Cardabra): A nice routine in three phases...

A Jinx parody.

1st edition 2006, 3 pages.

If you want to learn more about how to write your own ebook, then download this shareware ebook Self-Publishing by Tom Stone. This is specifically written for magicians but many of the desktop publishing techniques taught are valuable for any other genre you want to write for. Tom Stone is a top performer and very creative. His advice is excellent. You can download his ebook for free. And if you like it send Tom $5. Instructions on how to do that are in the ebook.

1st edition 2005, 23 pages.

Four lovely card effects put together by Peter Duffie.

4-SOME: Here's a simple and automatic, yet highly effective, way to get four of a kind using the Fulves "Gemini Twins" concept.

3-SOME: A matching effect where the spectator does all the work and finishes with Three of a Kind. Inspired by, but not using, Marty Kane's Status Quo-2 Principle.

THE HEAVY TEAM: A selected card lost in a packet is found by a randomly chosen Ace detective.

GHOST BUSTER: In effect, you show an Ace, Two, Three and Four of Spades. Each card passes from top to bottom and it is then discarded. When you reach...

A gas-lamp mystery featuring Jack the Ripper, Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Cthulhu, Mina Crandon, Mary Jane Kelly, the Cottingley Fairies, and a cast of thousands!

"I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death," - Harry Houdini.

An exhilarating romp through Victorian London and 1920s Boston, as fact and fantasy are merged, moulded together, and then torn apart again all for your entertainment and delectation! By combining...

• Impromptu
• No reset to worry about
• Can be repeated over and over with different people in the same venue
• 75% to 80% success rate
• An "out" that is just as spectacular for when this doesn't hit
• Let's see yer palm ... yet another out
• Both serious and funny presentations
• Not another card or coin trick
• Plus a bonus effect: break/knife: my switchless bill change (only taught in the PDF)

The first book of its kind, it contains information you will not find elsewhere on the inside secrets of snake magic and snake charming.

Have you ever wondered how magicians and snake charmers touch deadly cobras on the nose and NOT GET BITTEN? Well, it is not just nerve. It is a clever trick that few people know how it is done. Both Al Mann and Devin Knight have done this trick many times. Al Mann learned the secrets in India from street magicians and passed the information on to Devin Knight. Devin performed this trick when he was visiting China. Both Al Mann and Devin Knight improved upon...

The one-card middle pass is a versatile, although relatively unknown and underused sleight. Raymonde Crow teaches this powerful move, plus several unique variations of what he calls the Sandwich Pass, which will enable you to instantly control a card to second-from-the-bottom, to create a sandwich effect, and to move a card into gambler's cop.

In addition, Raymonde teaches two of his go-to card effects for the Sandwich Pass, the Comedy Sandwich and The Prince and the Pauper, from his book As the Crow Flies, available here at Lybrary.com. These powerful effects require no setup or gaffs, and can be done with...

The Double Whammy is a fun and easy card effect that hits hard. I wanted a card routine that I could do anytime with a borrowed deck. This is an effect that will knock their socks off and have them falling on their knees yelling, "He is the chosen one!" Well, maybe not that strong of a guarantee, but an effect that really will show them that you are a magician. I have always had people shout out in excitement at the end of this routine. This is one of the routines that I always do when handed a deck of cards.

You are at a party and someone mentions that you are a magician. (HEY, it could...

[Note: This effect was already part of Mentalism Games.]

From the audience point of view, this effect will look completely improvised as you present it with nothing. Just their fingers and yours. It really blows people's minds (laymen and magicians alike).

Finger burn: Ask a spectator to show you any finger; and put it over a candlelight or an invisible lighter. Your same finger will carry a blister even though your hands were apparently in full view all the time.

Voodoo finger: A variation to give away your business card.

1st edition 2015, 13 pages.

Peki, a highly decorated magician, explains here how you can create and learn a successful card manipulation routine for stage. This video is a German video dubbed by Peki to English.

Contents:

1. Peki's entire stage card manipulation act (performance)
2. Vanish a single card (back palm)
3. Produce a card (2 methods)
4. Showing your hand empty
5. Vanish multiple cards
6. Produce multiple cards (3 different methods)
7. Vanish a card fan
8. Produce a card fan
9. Continuous production of card fans
10. Combined card production
11. Gimmicks and holders for stealing cards secretly
12. Peki-Twist including vanishing a card,...

Paul Voodini presents The Voodini Steps to Mentalism, his own very personal take on the classic 13 Steps to Mentalism by Toni Corinda. Taking the original 13 Steps to Mentalism's chapter headings as his starting point, Paul takes us on a journey through his unique approach to mentalism and mind-magic. Packed full with routines and presentational ideas, The Voodini Steps also features real world performance advice and anecdotes from his time as a professional entertainer.

This is a full length, 351 page publication, containing a lifetime's worth of information on areas as diverse as the use...

A host of original 'real world' routines for the children's entertainer with integrated links to instructional videos via YouTube. Have a sneak peak at the free preview.

Whether you perform kid shows in Childcare, Birthday Parties, Shopping Centres, or Festivals there is a mix of new usable material for you in Yubble Drig!

Content:

1. Concentration (Utilising Tel's Bells prop)
2. Magic Drawing Board Gag (Utilising Axtell Magic Drawing Board)
3. Newspaper Gag
4. Yo-Yo Go Home
5. Battery Gag
6. My Best Rabbit from Hat 'Outs & Gags'
7. Great Bottle of Coke (Coin in Bottle routine for kids) ...

From the introduction by David Jones:

What do you do when the luggage containing your props goes to Murcia as you arrive for an important show in Madrid?

How would you cope if you arrived at a venue and the client, who booked you for a close up strolling performance, suddenly changed his mind and asked you to perform a full stand-up/cabaret set?

Learn how seven years of performances for unforgiving holiday makers on the Spanish Costa del Sol club circuit have shaped Scott's mentalism performances to ensure all his routines are interactive, fast paced and personal, and can be performed in almost any environment.

In this...

This is Peki's full fledged lecture video on manipulation with balls. It was originally released in German in 1994, but Peki has dubbed it himself in English. If you want to learn how to manipulate balls this is the video to learn it from. Jeff McBride has very good lecture videos on the market, but keep in mind that Jeff McBride started with stage manipulation seeing Peki perform.

Peki has a beautiful soft and lyrical style and reveals all his tricks and tips and ways to practice, including the various gimmicks he uses to achieve seamless transitions, wonderful color changes and other highly...

Six monster card effects that will fry magicians...and with a borrowed deck! Fool the "boys" at your next club meeting.

The enclosed effects and sleights are items from Marlo's repertoire that he would normally use to fool his world-class card buddies. These effects use only a regular deck and are brilliantly structured.

IN ADDITION, ALL 6 EFFECTS ARE EASY TO DO.

In this e-book:

1) A trick with no name - Marlo "fried" a roomful of the finest card magicians in the world with this. A card in a packet is only thought of by the spectator and its location. That very card then transports to...

Instantly give any spectator psychic powers! This is a stage size version of Devin Knight's best-selling Poker Tells. Considered by many to be one of his most baffling effects to date. This new version uses jumbo 5 x 7 inch playing cards so it can be seen from a stage. No longer a close-up item, but a stand-up item of mentalism that will fry any audience. The handling is different from the close-up version, so if you want to do this on stage, you need this PDF.

The performer states that some card players seem to have psychic abilities. These card players can correctly sense the cards in an...