Magic & Conjuring

A docu-drama (dramatized documentary) on the identity of the mystery author of a classic book on sleight-of-hand with cards.

The best magicians of the 21st century set out on a journey to search for the lost author of the most legendary book about the art of sleight of hand. S.W. Erdnase is the pseudonym of the man thought to be the most notorious card shark of the 19th century. His book The Expert at the Card Table is now considered the card conjurer's bible, making it compulsory reading for any magician. It took more than 30 years after its publication for the true value of the book to be appreciated. His true identity remains...

Way back in 2005, I began broadcasting a world-first: an hour dedicated to magic, live from London. At the time, I was presenting my breakfast show on commercial radio. Every Monday evening at 7pm GMT, the airwaves went live with Radio Magic. Each episode featured a ten-minute interview with a famous star of magic (see The Magic Interview Series ebook). As a spin-off from that year-long project, I recorded a few long-form interviews with magicians and these recordings became available as CDs: thus, the Magic Interview Series was born. Looking back, I was podcasting before podcasts! Now, for the first time ever, these...

"One of the best purchases I've made in a long while." - Brent Griffin

This is a challenge you can win every time. This is 100% gimmickless magic. A vault is a safe or lockbox. It holds valuables. I can get the valuables out of the vault even if the spectator is guarding the vault with their hands.

You challenge the spectator that you can get anything out of your closed fist, hand or vault even if their hands protect the top and bottom of your closed fist. There is no way in and no way out!

You make your challenge. If I can get the item out, can I have it? The spectator says, "Sure."...

Ten card mysteries Annemann would have loved.

This book was part of a two-person three-hour lecture session given by Harry Anderson that Jon gave at a Daytona Magic Conference.

Excerpt from the foreword:

Effects involving the number Pi.

This intro price will go up to $9 from April 3, 2023.

The number Pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159. This is also a very fascinating number from a magic and mentalism point of view.

The day of March 14 which represents the Pi value of 3.14 is celebrated across the world as Pi Day, which occurred recently in this year. Some amazing effects can be performed using this Pi number.

Epic Spin is a collection of routines using the Pi number. Although the effects involve...

More of Sam's commercial items, creations, and some of his ideas published in various magazines. Many require a bit of DIY building a prop or gimmick, but nothing requires any special skills or expensive supplies.

• Introduction
• Rainbow Chips
• Magician at the Casino
• Super Psychic Chips
• Climax Vision
• Multicolour Matrix
• Fire And Ice
• Space Warp
• Future Fungus
• Chameleon Fungus
• Visual Colour Changing Plumes
• Slow Change Plumes
• Famous Stamp Album Trick
• Six Way Coloring Book
• How to win at Dice games
• Improved Mental Logs
• Costume Capers
• The Alphabet Deck
• Card-I-Mental
• ESP Mental ...

Mentoring at your fingertips. Inspirations, musings and creative insights.

Letters To A Young Mentalist is a compendium of epistolary wisdom, advice and musing born from the proficuous letter exchange between a seasoned professional and an eager receptive protégé.

In these pages, you will find thoughts on creativity, mentoring, writing, staging and much more. The contents are both practical and inspiring, encouraging a dialogue on what mentalism is and how we can make it more meaningful, artful and reverberating. Some of the insights are thought-provoking, while others are invaluable...

This effect is intriguing. Not only will the magician find two chosen cards under impossible conditions, but there will be a series of incredible and numerous predictions. Look at the full performance. The effect is simple to perform and semi-automatic. We are certainly within the magician-fooler category. Everything is done with a normal deck of cards.

1st edition 2023, video 16:03.

Learn about mix and mingle magic the easy way.

This 55-minute audiobook is perfect for listening to in the car or while jogging or at the gym. It contains a reading of the contents of the hugely useful information ebook entitled Going Walkabout, in which I explain exactly how I go about performing at informal mix and mingle events and how to make a success of working close-up magic at reception style events where the spectators are all standing or where there is, at best, only a very informal arrangement of seats, but no tables.

The 7 chapters included are as follows:

• Chapter 1 - Defining Going Walkabout ...

Easy and simple magic tricks for the beginner.

• Why Do You Want to Learn Magic Tricks?
• What are the Easiest Tricks to Learn?
• The Key to Magic – Sleight of Hand
• What is an Illusion?
• Easy Money Tricks Using Bills
• Easy Money Tricks Using Coins
• Easy Magic Tricks Using Scarves and Handkerchiefs
• Fun and Simple Card Tricks
• Fascinating Rope Tricks
• Cups and Balls Routines
• Simple Elastic Tricks
• Fun Dice Tricks
• Tips for Becoming a True Entertainer
• How Much Practice Will it Take?
• How Many Tricks Should You Perform?

1st edition 2021, PDF 34 pages.

L’utilizzo della Duplice Realtà nel Mentalismo

DUPLICE: Che è fatto tra due soggetti, persone. Che si compone di due parti o elementi differenti.
REALTÀ: carattere di ciò che è reale, concreto, vero. Es: avere, non avere il senso della realtà.

Ho voluto cominciare questa introduzione al libro con il sunto del significato delle due parole che caratterizzeranno questo lavoro così come risultano dai dizionari della lingua italiana.

Questo perché l’essenza degli argomenti che tratteremo si basa proprio su questi due termini che andremo ad analizzare nei vari aspetti e sfaccettature...

Svelati i trucchi dei più grandi Mentalisti moderni

Hai mai pensato di prendere un semplice mazzetto di fogli, metterli in tasca e poterci pagare la cena? Hai mai pensato di potere vedere un tuo amico che davanti ai tuoi occhi con grande sgomento ammette di non ricordare il proprio nome o una carta che pochi secondi fa aveva memorizzato?

Hai mai creduto possibile poter incollare una mano ad un tavolo? Questa non è fantascienza, non stai per diventare uno Jedi e non è esattamente “magia”… ma se i tuoi amici e il tuo pubblico lo credessero? Divertiti, e mettiti comodo, perché stai...

Tecniche Pratiche di Comunicazione Subliminale

Il libro che hai tra le mani (o meglio che hai sul monitor del pc o sul tuo e-book reader) rappresenta l’evoluzione dei miei precedenti lavori. In questo e-book non solo troverai alcune tecniche descritte nei miei precedenti libri qualora tu non li avessi acquistati ma anche la descrizione del Milton model con esempi chiari per comprenderlo fino in fondo.

Troverai anche utili consigli per poter rinforzare la tua identità di persuasore. Questo è un libro sulla comunicazione subliminale, un approccio che ti può permettere di influenzare...

Come creare stati alterati di coscienza per ottenere una comunicazione irresistibile

Comunicazione ipnotica 2.0! Marco Antuzi come sempre mira alla pratica e in questa nuova opera non fa certo differenza e ti insegna come cambiare il modo di vedere il mondo con l’uso della parola.

Quando due persone conversano si scambiano opinioni basate sul proprio modo di vedere la realtà ma la parola è in grado di cambiare la visone della realtà e ristrutturare un evento negativo in uno positivo o viceversa.

In questo ebook imparerai a creare stati alterati di coscienza e a sfruttarli inserendo...

Viaggio nella Comunicazione

Calabria 2016: mi trovo in un piccolo paese nella provincia di Crotone, dove ho passato parecchie estati, essendo questo il paese nativo dei miei genitori.

Non mi sento costretto ad andarci, anzi, quando possibile ci torno volentieri, richiamato dal fascino e dalla bellezza della costa ionica.

Sono passati tre anni e mezzo dal mio primo eBook “Oltre le parole” ed è cresciuta la voglia di proseguire con un altro capitolo, di creare e passare nuove informazioni sulla comunicazione e sul linguaggio del corpo, arricchendo tutto ciò con nuovi esperimenti...

This ebook is only available for one week! It will vanish into thin air on March 23rd, 2023.

A new collection of best-selling magic, mentalism, visual gags, bonus material and loads of hilarious ways to select a volunteer.

Here's a collection of excellent stand-up and close-up effects - available for one week only. It's a cost-of-living busting bargain. There's so much good stuff here, including: Limitless is a mentalism killer effect you'll use all the time, 'Meeow' is a collection of great, easy visual gags to get laughs in close-up or stand-up, and Pineapple Crush is a very funny...

We are a for-profit business, but we do work on non-profit projects, which we do simply because we love magic. For example, many of the old books we convert cost much more to convert than we would ever hope to make selling digital versions. Nevertheless, we have chosen to digitize and preserve many of these books and magazines as a service to the magic community. We are also thinking about making some of these ebooks free if we can raise enough money through donations.

Any donations made here will flow directly to preserving magic literature. If for whatever reason we are not able to use...

Cover: Léa Kyle

4. Welcome to Issue #108 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. Reader's Letters
8. Léa Kyle - Changing Magic - cover article/interview by Phil Shaw
14. Masterclass
    14. Tour de Force - Michael O'Brien
    16. Spirit of the Pendulum - Brian Johnson
    18. Any Page Number Book Test - Ian Adair
20. Why Solving is Essential - Kev G
    21. 5 QR Codes (and links) for solving a Rubik's Cube
24. The Bochord Club - Ian Moran
27. Worker's Corner - Chris Congreave
30. Alarna Love - The Secret Magician - interview by Phil Shaw
34. Memories of Entertaining - Brian Johnson
37. Deliberate Practise...

Life in Digits is a collection of number divination effects and word divination effects using a single card. The card supplied to you is used by a participant to select a random 7 or 8-digit number. And the performer starts divining the number instantly and very cleanly. Or the card is used by the participant to think of a country, color, state or star sign, etc, and again the performer cleanly and instantly divines the thought.

There are 2 cards supplied to you. One is about postcard size and another is poker size. Both can be comfortably...

Routines, visual gags and priceless advice from the top comedy pros.

If you want to create a comedy act, or are a comedy performer looking to supplement the fun that you already have, this ebook will provide you with all the inspiration, advice, effects, one-liners and visual gags that you need.

We have tapped into the knowledge and expertise of top comedy performers such as Scott and Muriel, Gaetan Bloom, John Archer, Alan Hudson, Nathan Kranzo, Andy Reay, Michael Finney and many more, all of whom have revealed what it takes to make your magic appealingly funny.

Reading this ebook will help to...

Excerpt from the Foreword:

• Tricky Tidbits
• For The Green Chlorophyll Card
• Our Magician Of The Yearbook For 1954 - Del Ray
• The Royal Assembly
• Fourteen Effects With The Fourteen Of Clubs
• Mickey Mouse And His Magic Coats
• The Jackpot Cigarette Trick
• The Magnetic Ball
• Golf Ball To Silk
• The Human Volcano
• The Spectator Does A Card Trick
• Perfect Diminishing Pack Of Cigarettes
• Felix The Snake
• Torn Smoke
• The Ireland Handling For A Jumbo Two Way Forcing Deck
• Bamboo Chinese Sticks
• Sockard
• What To Do With A Slick Ace
• Sez You Giant Card Trick
• The No Gimmick Slate Gimmick
• The Foolproof Necktie Trick
• The Ghost...

In this, the second all-cards issue, of Triplets, Gregg Webb describes some old and some new in the news section, including a review of a rather old book Gregg thinks has good patter ideas for poker-themed card tricks, and some others that are quite recent, and a few things that are yet to come out but will soon.

Next Gregg describes a novel vanish of a card for standup manipulators, and then a card trick based on Schrödinger's Cat theory (from quantum mechanics), and a very direct new incarnation of Real Gone Aces, called Real Gone Queens, which includes a way to do it as Real Gone Jokers. ...

A deep dive into Elmsley's Point of Departure.

The original effect is the following. A card is chosen and placed face down on the table. The two black aces are then removed from the pack and with the utmost fairness, the chosen card is placed between them, and this sandwich is handed to a spectator to hold. On the magician's command, the chosen card vanishes and is found in the performer's pocket.

• Point of Departure / Alex Elmsley
• Card Vanish Supreme / Edward Marlo
• A-E-I-O-U / Sam Schwarz
• Last-Minute Departure / Jon Racherbaumer
• Escapade / Max Maven
• Between Your Points of Departure / Earl...

If you enjoy simple to do magic that never requires a re-set and which you can do anytime, anywhere, you will love this two-stage routine using a 10p and a £2 coin. (Any two coins of different sizes can be used for this effect.)

Both coins are borrowed from spectators and placed into your fist. The 10p is openly removed, shown freely and genuinely placed away in your pocket. Instantly it jumps back to your hand to join the £2.

Then the £2 is removed, but instead of both coins reappearing in the hand, they both vanish and are produced from the pocket. Very clean handling, easy to do,...

Vanish a plastic drinking straw.

The vanish is accomplished with a pull. The details of the hookup and presentation are taught in the video.

1st edition 2023, video 10 min.

The title sums up the spirit of the guide, in fact with this eBook the purpose was precisely to give an overview of the art of mentalism, talking about the techniques used, psychology, cold reading and much more, not getting lost in descriptions of details that only the individual performer can and must necessarily learn and refine by trying and trying again.

For this reason, no room has been given to the presentations. It seems a paradox not to mention the presence of an illusionistic effect when this is probably more than 90 percent of the effect itself, but, as said little, the presentation...

Effetti di magia per bambini, metodi e presentazione

Graziano Roversi, in arte “Zio Pota” , artista intrattenitore dalla grande esperienza con questo libro condivide con te i particolari che rendono efficace una performance. In particolare in questo libro viene trattata la magia per bambini.

Un prestigiatore può controllare l’attenzione di un adulto semplicemente guardandolo negli occhi ma con un bambino non basta. I prestigiatori sanno bene che i bambini sono un pubblico molto difficile.

Graziano Roversi ti insegna come coinvolgere il pubblico di bambini e genitori, trasforma...

Come lo scriver battute può cambiarti la vita

L’autore Emiliano Moroni, formatore esperto in meditazione, yoga, shamanesimo e costellazioni familiari mette a tua disposizione la sua esperienza maturata anche nei villaggi turistici dove ha lavorato per diversi anni, in un libro umoristico ma che ha anche forte valore in un percorso individuale di crescita personale.

Come sempre Emiliano non tralascia il lato pratico e tratta in questo libro anche la tecnica e da indicazioni preziose su come si può sperimentare nella disciplina del cabaret. Le parole di Emiliano descrivono benissimo...

Guida pratica alle tecniche di Comunicazione più Efficaci

Ogni volta che decido l’argomento da trattare nel mio nuovo ebook cerco di farlo seguendo una semplice regola: Proporre al pubblico qualcosa di nuovo e di utile.

Avevo in mente questo libro da diverso tempo, un libro in cui sintetizzare tutto ciò che c’è da sapere sulla comunicazione.

Immagina un libro dove poter trovare la versione più moderna del meta-modello (uno dei modelli più famosi sulla comunicazione efficace tratti dalla Programmazione Neuro Linguistica), tecniche di ipnosi conversazionale e la nota e apprezzatissima...