Magic & Conjuring: page 267

A good opener that is intriguing, has a huge visual impact, quick, easy, and can be performed regardless of the size or the style of the show is not always easy to come by. The Optical Opener from David Devlin fits all of those conditions. It is an opener that requires no technical skills, is visually mystifying, entertaining, and will have even you saying, "Whoa! That is so cool!"

This routine employs an optical illusion that creates a photo that visually changes as it is turned over. David has created not one, but nine different illusion photos that you can use to perform this routine....

From the introduction:

• Dedication
• Publisher's Introduction (by Edwin)
• Foreword
• The Dark Side of the Moon (Ken de Courcey)
• Extension to MIKO: A twist on a standard pocket effect to give...

Stage, parlor and impromptu scripts, handlings, and a spreadsheet calculator for the Magic Matrix. A devilishly clever was to force numbers.

"Ognib" is "Bingo" in reverse, is a method also known under the name "Magic Matrix" (see Martin Gardner).

A complete script, handling, and a spreadsheet calculator. Handlings included for stage, parlor and impromptu.

The magician shows a handful of printed numeric grids. The magician then has 4 spectators decide on one of the grids. Using the chosen grid, they then pick 4 numbers from the grid. The 4 numbers that were chosen - when added together - totals up...

Minds in Duplicate contains a number of routines designed to be presented as telepathic demonstrations between the performer and his partner. Each effect carries conviction, and not one of them calls for the long rehearsal and extensive memorisation of codes common to this class of work. Maximum effect is secured with minimum trouble. With the material in this book alone, thought-reading reputations can be made.

• Foreword
• Three Thoughts Alone
• She Has The Number
• Thoughts Direct
• Designed To Order
• The Five Cards Problem
• Operator Calling
• Astral Headline
• Money And The Medium
• Mental Tuition ...

Stories and anecdotes of the Who's Who of magic in the early 20th century. Several are about Houdini.

• An Introduction
• Foreword
• The Truth About The Zancigs
• The Tragedy Of Hanco
• When G. W. Hunter Dried Up
• How Denny And Will Goldston Escaped Gaol
• The Truth Of Horace Goldin's Arrest
• The Cornells And Their Ghastly Publicity Stunt
• The Strangeness Of Lafayette
• Dante Perplexed
• Dante's Experience In Russia
• Muller The Mystic
• Was Chung Ling Soo Murdered?
• A Handcuff Escape That Went Wrong
• Ceeley And The Naked Lady
• Frank Van Hoven's Tragic Failure
• Frank Van Hoven And A Fellow Artist's Wife
• Wishart And The...

A great ebook, explaining 25 masterpieces of magic, exactly as performed by the author on stages around the world. New tricks, close-up tricks, tricks you've never seen before, club tricks, Impromptu effects, a magic table, and much more.

Booth's marvelous Production Routine is worth many times the price of the whole ebook - and you can make practically the whole outfit yourself. Perform it nearly anywhere, since Booth presented it in Nightclubs with people all around.

Magic masters including Paul Rosini, Annemann, Milbourne Christopher, Carlton King, Bill Larsen, Sid Lorraine, Lloyd Jones, John Mulholland and hundreds of others rated it as a great...

Among other effects, Werner Miller explores the old age cards trick and stretches it into new and so far unexplored directions including versions where the spectator is allowed to lie.

• Leporello
• Ternary Number Compass
• Binary Number Compass
• Binary Card Compass
• Binary Card Cube
• Aside From Binary and Ternary
• Extensions
• OWLright
• Four Questions
• Seven Questions
• Four Ins, One Out
• Off-Form Psychic
• No Milk Today
• ESPiatnik
• Do You Play Cards?
• Lady First
• amBiguous
• Instant Sudoku
• Swindle Sudoku II
• 2ZZ

1st edition 2018, 44 pages.

Using your own deck or a borrowed deck, you turn your back to the spectator. The spectator can shuffle the deck while your back is turned. The spectator removes the top 15 cards from the pack just as they come. From those 15 cards he is to remove all the black cards and put them in his front left pants pocket. The remaining red cards, he counts and then places them in his right front pants pocket.

Next, he takes a few more cards from the remaining deck, the number to correspond the number of red cards in his right pants pocket. If he placed 7 cards there, he would remove from the deck face...

From the introduction:

Routines for the stand-up magician.

From the introduction by Wm. G. Stickland:

Stunts, gags and puzzles, some new and some very old, with which to amuse your friends when called upon to "show us a trick". Many of the tricks are old and well known, but they are included in the hope that they will be fresh to some of you.

Photographs by Lewis Ganson.

• Mathamatchic
• The Big Blow
• Have-A-Light
• Rocket Match
• Eternal Triangle
• Economy Matches
• Match-Up
• Heads Or Tails?
• Condiments Of The Seasoning
• Suspendid
• Passing Coin
• Shooting-Match
• Change-About
• Suit Changing
• Light Humour
• Gone!
• Coin Spin
• Go-Go Coin
• Long Stretch
• Salted
• Heads And Tails
• Holey
• Push
• Silly Scissors

A sequel to Effective Answers to Questions, which has been regarded by the profession as the greatest book of its kind.

In this informative 'how-to book,' Nelson presents many angles and arguments that will enable the performer to present a better, and more effective program. Nelson's comments on TV, radio and newspaper work will be found very valuable for professional workers, as he shares a lifetime of practical knowledge, gained from his many years of actual experience. How to impress your audience is one of the many features of this ebook. Many new gags, both sensational and humorous will be found between the covers. ...

Touch of the Ancients is an ebook that introduces the reader to one of the worlds oldest magical principles. It was described by Western Diplomats as the finest magic in India. Here Cara re-investigates and re-imagines the principle, follows a cultural line of how this principle would be employed by the various peoples and migrations from the Indus Valley, with a very twisted addition.

Includes 6 killer routines:

• The original Victorian Indian Presentation
• The Armanen Codex
• The Thread and Comb
• The Voodoo Curse
• The Money Spell
• The Lama's Lamp

1st edition 2015, 26 pages.

This collection of card tricks is really wonderful with very nice routines and simple effects. It is surprising that this book has not seen more attention and is hardly known. Take a look. You will be surprised. One of those hidden gems. It has been described by others as a "minor classic".

This ebook covers both the first and expanded third edition.

• Introduction to the Third Edition
• Introduction
• Chapter I: Conjurers' Terms And Artifices
  • False Cuts
  • False Shuffles
  • Forcing
  • Locators, And Key Cards
  • Shuffles
• Chapter II: Beginners' Tricks
  • Three Odd Heaps, No. 1
  • You Do As I Do....

Did you know you could be doing things at your gigs that could get you arrested or lead to hefty fines? I know in the past I was guilty of doing some of these things which led me to write this e-book. In my opinion this is the definitive work on avoiding getting busted at a gig.

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first e-book written entirely on this subject. It was written to protect entertainers and should be considered a must read for all performers. It's a shame that I have to write this PDF, but unfortunately there are things that entertainers could be doing at their shows that...

Mnemonica for Everybody is a streamlined, graphical method for easily and quickly learning the Tamariz stack.

It's the same Peg Memory System (PMS) I developed that I used to learn the Aronson Stack in an hour while driving. BTW, this same technique works great for every memorized stack out there including the Aronson Stack, The Six-Hour Memorized Deck by Martin Joyal, the Nikola stack and others.

Even though there are no actual tricks taught in this manuscript, it does contain links to several free memorized deck tricks and other resources (including a free e-book from Simon Aronson).

Please refer to the writings...

From the Foreword by Harry Blackstone, Jr.

• Dedication
• Thank Yous ...
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Watch Closely
  • Gulliver's Nickel
  • The "Slaphappy" Coin
  • Floating Foam
  • The Write Word
  • Confuscious Say
  • Changing The Change
  • A Mouse In The House
• Chapter 2: Card Concepts
  • E.Z. Bridge
  • A False Swinger
  • The...

Routines with the Himber type linking finger ring.

• The Original Himber Routine
• Richard Himber's StaggeRing
• The K de C Triple Link (Ken de Courcy)
• About Rings and Things (George Blake)
• Ring, Pin and Cord
• Chinese Coins and Rings
• A Ring and a Loop o'String
• Sefalaljia-By Hand
• BewildeRing

1st digital edition 2018, 19 pages.

Klean Force is a simple self working principle which can be used to build interesting routines with different themes. In this manuscript, two killer routines are explained which you could very well use as 'gig getters'. One routine is based on the theme of 'countries' and another on the theme of 'famous quotes'. A five minute preparation is all you need to start performing these routines.

The participants make absolutely free choices and yet the 'force' hits cleanly and cleverly. There are no sleights, no pre show, no stooges. It is mostly self working and there is nothing to reset. The performer...

If you like a real card baffler, look no further. This is a sort of 'One-Deck Do-As-I-Do' but it works on a very different principle.

Cards are shuffled and cut both by the spectator and the performer (really!). The spectator mentally chooses a card (free choice) and the performer does the same. Then the cards are shuffled again. Unbelievably, the magician and the spectator get cards of the same value and colour. It almost works itself.

Effect: The performer cuts a portion off the pack, hands it to a spectator and asks him to do exactly as he does. First they both shuffle their packets,...

This ebook is an exploration of a clever principle rarely used by mentalists or magicians, and probably known by just a few. It can use four to a dozen of flat objects (that can be borrowed): cards, jumbo cards, business cards, index cards, coasters, postcards, banknotes, photographs, billets, lottery tickets, coupons, poker chips, etc.

Effect (Example)

You can have your back turned:

You show a number of postcards, for instance, with different cities or countries. The spectator mixes them and puts the one she prefers, on the table. Then, she is instructed to put the other ones on top...

Here's an ebook of clever and original ideas and routines for standard parlor and club effects.

Originally published as a limited edition booklet by the manufacturer of the Mysto Magic Set, the authors have contributed several excellent performance ideas that will delight your audience.

In addition, the authors have supplied instructions for creating updated fekes and gimmics to perform popular tricks, such as producing a rabbit from an empty hat or performing the Aerial Treasury effect. An excellent ebook of audience-tested magic.

Here's an example. Imagine if a magician walks up to you and asks...

• Foreword
• Practice
• Misdirection
• Important Warning
• If Something Goes Wrong
• Essential Apparatus for an Evening's Entertainment with Handkerchief Tricks
• The Opening Trick
• Dyeing a Handkerchief
• The Conjurer as a Dyer
• The Handkerchief Vanisher
• The Mirror Glass
• The Disappearing Handkerchief from a Lamp Chimney
• Herman's Vanishing Knots
• Stretching a Handkerchief
• The Instantly Knotted Handkerchiefs
• The Vanishing Ring from Goblet of Water by Means of a Handkerchief
• The Burnt Handkerchief Restored
• Juggling
• Producing a Handkerchief in Full View from a Glass
• Handkerchief Casette
• Drum...

"I do a lot of Q&A act in my shows and I have different ways to get people info. This for sure is another tool I will have at my disposal when I can. Thanks Devin for releasing this." - Luca Volpe

"This is a shocking book. I will never use it, but every mentalist should own it to know what is going on. It is a valuable reference, but do not use it. Like a modern-day nightmare alley, it exposes the dark underbelly of the art. It should be in your library, but much feels immoral, and you must be hip to it. Treasure it, like a radioactive isotope, but keep your distance." - Marc Salem

Finally,...