Magic & Mentalism

A complete act with a deck of cards, totally impromptu and without skill.

This is undoubtedly one of Aldo Colombini's most successful works. Originally published only in Italian, now available for the first time in English.

A small treasure that allows you to perform five seemingly impossible effects without any skill. In a few words, the artist finds several chosen cards in incredible ways, despite the cards being repeatedly shuffled by the spectators themselves. And the good news is that the routine is fully impromptu and almost automatic.

In Aldo's own words:

Minimal props. Maximum impact.

With my first book of original routines and devices in almost a decade, EDC Mentalism is a modern collection of powerful mentalism built around the objects I carry every day. Crafted for performers who value practicality, subtlety, and strong audience reactions, these routines are designed to feel real and improvisational, while every beat is perfectly structured.

• No elaborate equipment.
• No awkward setups.
• Just intelligent, portable deceptions you can perform at a moment's notice.

You will learn:

• How to build the most deceptive peek, load & steal...

Most magicians never get paid. Not because they're not good enough - but because they're focused on the wrong things.

They spend years learning harder tricks, chasing perfect technique, and trying to impress other magicians ... while never performing for real people, never building connections, and never turning their skills into income.

This book fixes that.

Stop Thinking Like a Magician is a practical, no-nonsense guide to going from hobbyist to paid performer - even if you're just starting out.

With a Foreword written by Steve Gore. No theory. No fluff. No unrealistic promises....

Using AI to create better tricks, more bookings, and a smarter magic business.

The magician next door is using AI. Are you?

Right now, somewhere in your market, a magician with average skills and a good AI strategy is out-earning you. Not because they are more talented. Because they stopped wasting time on everything around the performance and started using the smartest tool available to handle it.

This ebook will make you more money, save you money, and time. Magic 2.0 is the book that closes that gap.

Here is what changes when you read it:

You stop staring at a blank page, waiting...

A length of rope is displayed and can be examined if required. Taking the cord in his two hands, the magician ties a knot in the rope's centre, and instantly, as the knot is formed, a silk appears threaded through the knot!

No gimmicks required, this is a streamlined method for a classic Pavel effect.

1st edition 2026, video 8:22.

As a young man, Percy Abbott toured China. When he came to America and established the Abbott Magic Co., he published a manuscript of Chinese magic, including this clever effect. Magicians have always avoided liquid tricks because of their potential for disaster. There isn't the slightest possibility of anything going wrong during this sequence. It is an excellent stand-alone marvel. The original used six cups. Because of the decreased attention span of modern audiences, it is here reduced to four cups. Either version will suit your needs.

1st edition 2026, video 1:57.

This intro price will go up to $30 from June 19, 2026.

A Special Surprise Gift worth $12 is included inside.

No, you don't have to sin after reading this. SIN here stands for Shadow Invisible Numerology.

This is a uniquely powerful and unconventional routine. Firstly you need zero knowledge of numerology to perform this, as numerology is only used as a theme here and not as a method. The "top layer" of the routine is completely "invisible" or "blank". And the "middle layers" of this routine are like "fleeting shadows" - partly visible and partly invisible. And hence the name Shadow...

A spectator freely selects a card and loses it into the middle of the deck. The magician claims he only needs three chances to cut to the selection, but all three cards cut to are misses. In the end, the combined values of those three cards reveal the exact position of the spectator’s selection.

1st edition 2026, video 6:51.

There are no tricks explained in this ebook. It references dozens of effects most magicians are familiar with, and a presentation to deliver a message beyond simple entertainment. Over half the book is devoted to Gospel Magic, to make the Good Word as interesting to watch as it is to hear!

By extension, the message in your magic could extend to morals and healthy habits, or even mundane matters like plugging a specific product or service. There are some ideas for all these.

There is no charge for the ebook, simply because I believe spreading the "Good Word" ceases to be "Good" when distributed...

Six stand-up effects from Martin Lewis. This is strong, audience-tested material from his parlor act. Martin shows you, in a step-by-step, hands-on guide, how to make the props on your kitchen table quickly and easily, with only basic tools and materials, needing no special skills. Then, in live performance, see how the apparatus is used to really make magic.

Includes artwork in 3 PDFs.

Instant Coffee: A few coffee beans tossed into a paper cup turn into real hot coffee.

Nigel: This is Martin's revival of that lovely old chestnut the Soup Plate and Handkerchief. For Martin, it is...

Wands for adult performers, kids' entertainers, comedy magicians, clowns, and anyone who uses a magic wand in the show.

Author Ian Adair conjures up a multitude of magic wands for all types of magical entertainers. There's tricks and routines using un-gimmicked wands, gimmicked wands, comedy wands, banner wands, jumbo wands, coloured wands ..., a 'wanderful' collection. New wands and new ideas from Ian.

Every adult performer will use one or more of these wands in his/her show - every kids' entertainer will love the super-duper comedy gag wands. There are 'message' banner wands too!

PLUS:...

A hands-off cheating demonstration.

The traditional card-cheating demonstration ends with the audience admiring the performer's hands. This one ends somewhere else entirely.

The spectator shuffles a borrowed deck. They cut as many times as they like. They deal five poker hands, face down, in front of them. Before a single card is turned, you commit aloud: the winning hand will be a full house, sitting in the third seat from my left.

It is.

The cheating happened somewhere they cannot point to. They shuffled, they cut, they dealt - by their own hand. And the outcome arrived exactly...

Reveal secrets on folded or unfolded business cards.

A few years ago, I introduced the SpyCat Wallet to the magic community, where it received outstanding reviews at the Café. I later sold the rights to it.

Now, I'd like to introduce something new, the Whisper Wallet, a modern, sleek, minimalist peek wallet unlike any other peek wallet on the market.

Reveal a spectator's secret written on a business card and folded by the spectator using a completely new principle and technique never used before.

The Whisper Wallet can also be used as a traditional peek wallet with a straight business...

A finger ring is borrowed from a spectator and placed under a handkerchief, where it is held by a second onlooker.

The performer removes a reading glasses case from his pocket and extracts his glasses from inside, the case itself being examined. The glasses are then dropped back inside, and the spectator holds the case up in view.

Reaching across to the handkerchief, the magician suddenly pulls it from the helper's hands, and instantly the borrowed ring disappears.

The assistant holding the glasses case now reaches inside and slides the spectacles out to reveal the ring hanging on...

A variation on the classic Invisible Palm plot. A powerful visual effect performed with just a few playing cards.

1st edition 2026, video 10:37.

From children's magician to popular premium act.

The family entertainment market in 2026 has radically changed. Children growing up with smartphones, high-resolution CGI films, and interactive media are no longer simply fascinated by "a man with colorful scarves." They are looking for role models. They are looking for characters they can love, protect, and accompany on an adventure.

If you, as a magician, continue to simply string together one trick after another, you'll be phased out of the market or driven down by price. Become incomparable. If you take to the stage with a character...

Vom Kinderzauberer zum gefragten Premium-Act.

Der Markt für Familienunterhaltung im Jahr 2026 hat sich radikal verändert. Kinder, die mit Smartphones, hochauflösenden CGI-Filmen und interaktiven Medien aufwachsen, lassen sich nicht mehr bloß von "einem Mann mit bunten Tüchern" faszinieren. Sie suchen Identifikationsfiguren. Sie suchen Charaktere, die sie lieben, beschützen und durch ein Abenteuer begleiten können.

Wenn du als Zauberkünstler weiterhin nur Trick an Trick reihst, wirst du vom Markt wegrationalisiert oder über den Preis gedrückt. Werde unvergleichbar. Wenn du mit...

This intro price will go up to $30 from June 12th, 2026.

A Special Surprise Gift worth $12 is included inside.

Once you start performing this effect, you will get so addicted to this routine that you will never stop performing it. It is that strong and powerful and gets you absolutely great reactions.

There is no physical deck of cards involved. You just carry a single folded preprinted card in your pocket or wallet. A participant secretly thinks of a set of 4 random playing cards. And he tells you a sequence of 3 lies about the cards in his mind.

And yet, in an absolutely impossible...

A compendium of mysteries from 20th century experts.

Here is a rare opportunity to purchase seven separate manuscripts at a heavily discounted price. All seven have been written by Ian Baxter and feature careful revisions of exceptional mysteries stemming from these brilliant magicians:

• John Scarne
• Stewart James
• Dai Vernon
• Ed Marlo
• Paul Curry
• Jean Hugard
• Walter B. Gibson

This exceptional assortment of card magic from lybrary.com is now on sale for almost half the price. A bargain indeed! Do yourself a favour and secure your purchase now. This special offer of Seven Revised...

The secret grammar of magic. Theory and practice of attention control.

Misdirection is not just a trick or gimmick. It is a way of thinking.

For over a century, magicians have discussed how to direct attention. Far less often, they ask why this direction works. Rarer still, they describe it with precision. This ebook does exactly that.

Alexander de Cova does not view misdirection as a collection of tricks, but as the secret grammar of magic - a system of rules, interactions, and psychological mechanisms that shape perception, memory, and meaning. Those who understand this grammar have...

Die geheime Grammatik der Magie.

Das umfassendste deutschsprachige Werk über die Kunst der Aufmerksamkeitslenkung in der Zauberkunst.

Nach über zwanzig Jahren intensiver Beschäftigung mit diesem Thema hat Alexander de Cova ein Buch geschrieben, in dem er Misdirection nicht als Trick, sondern als fundamentales Werkzeug und System der Zauberkunst versteht, das eine Täuschung der Zuschauer überhaupt erst möglich macht. Misdirection ist die geheime Grammatik der Magie, die aus einem Puzzle ein unerklärliches Wunder macht.

Misdirection ist die Kunst der gezielten Lenkung der Aufmerksamkeit...

A theatrical two-card revelation.

A spectator selects a card. The card is returned to the deck. The performer begins to shuffle... and suddenly loses control. Cards spill from the hands and scatter across the table in what appears to be a genuine mistake.

Recovering, the performer invites a second spectator to also select a card. Both cards are lost in the deck. Then the tone changes.

The performer speaks quietly about moments of stillness - about the instinct people have to bring their hands together when they want to focus, reflect, or ask for something beyond themselves.

Cards...

A made-up card at a made-up number effect where the spectator does (almost) all the work.

While the performer's back is turned, a spectator cuts the deck twice to two different cards. He adds their values together, then adds 10 to obtain a random number - let's say, 23.

He deals that many cards into a pile and divides the pile into two packets. He freely chooses one of the packets, looks at its top card and remembers its value. He repeats the same procedure with the second packet, this time remembering the suit of the top card. By combining the chosen value and suit, he mentally creates...

The performer offers to demonstrate an effect that is part mentalism and part magic. For the mentalism part, he slides a blue-backed prediction card from a pay envelope, displaying that the envelope is otherwise empty before returning the card and leaving the envelope in view.

A red-backed deck is shown to be well mixed, and a spectator genuinely freely (no force) touches the back of any face-down card. This selection is left reversed in the centre of the deck.

The blue-backed prediction card is now removed from the envelope and its face displayed - let's say it is the QC. When the red...

A spectator freely selects a card, freely cuts the deck to determine a number, and divides the deck into four packets. After multiple rounds of reassembling and cutting, the selection still arrives at the exact corresponding number. A self-working, fooling card routine.

1st edition 2026, video 6:26.

Stop practicing moves. Start entertaining people.

You've practiced that pass for six months. You've never spent six minutes on what your face and body are doing while you execute it. Here's the uncomfortable truth most magicians never face: your moves are not what fool people. Your acting is. This eBook fixes that. No fluff, no images, no charts, just practical advice that will make your magic better.

What You'll Learn

The Two Hands Problem - the single most useful concept in close-up magic, and most magicians get it backwards. Learn why the hand doing the dirty work should be the boring...

Jules DeBarros was, according to Jon Racherbaumer, perhaps the finest coin worker of his, or any, era. His timing and execution were flawless and angle-proof. Here is a fine example of his approach.

1st edition 2026, video 1:14.

The Magigram Index covers the complete run of Magigram from September 1966 to the last issue in February 1995.

Items in the Index are listed by Author, Title, Date, Volume, Issue, Page and up to four categories. Each category is represented by a three letter abbreviation such as CARds (2097 entries), CHIldren (1152 entries), CLOse-up (391 entries), COIns (483 entries), REPorts of Societies, Conventions, Shows and other events (260 entries), BIOgraphy (377 entries), MANipulation (84 entries), etc. There are a total of 11797 entries with 456 different categories plus a listing...

"Luke has a truly beautiful mind, and it shows through his work as a mentalist." - Morgan Strebler

"After reading this, I really am excited to see what the future holds for Luke." - Peter Turner

Inconceivable is a collection of practical, hard-hitting mentalism from Luke Jonas - material designed for real-world performance, not just the page.

Inside, you'll find a range of effects and routines built for both close-up and stage environments, using familiar objects including newspapers, playing cards, coins, and more. The material focuses on strong presentations, layered...

Richard Southall's latest ebook again shows his interest in bizarre magic. Like his previous book on the Okito Voodoo Doll, this book also deals with a single topic. However, this time he is examining Project MK-Ultra, the CIA's secret experiments into mind control techniques. However, unlike his previous work, which presented a number of individual effects, this ebook includes a full routine of six MK-Ultra-based tricks and a bonus trick also related to the topic.

Effects range from MK-Ultra's experiments in ESP and remote viewing to the attempt to create a Manchurian Candidate,...

Astonishing card tricks using the rough and smooth principle.

The R&S (Rough and Smooth) principle is one of the best subterfuges of card magic, with trick decks like the Brainwave Deck by Dai Vernon (originally described in October 1938 - Issue 49 of Annemann's Jinx) being one of the classic trick decks of all times, and several dozens of other decks and packet tricks based on this principle.

Basically, cards roughed with roughing treatment cling together in pairs, to show as a single card when fanned with slight pressure, and separate when fanned lightly.

One can...

Transform your card magic from mechanical to memorable.

Most card magic books teach you the moves. But moves alone don't make magic. What separates a forgettable trick from a standing ovation is the story you tell while doing it. Card Tricks with Patter delivers ten powerful, audience-tested effects alongside something most books ignore entirely: the actual words to say.

Inside these pages, you'll find classics like "The Partagas Sell," "Five Card Plunger," and Dai Vernon's "Matching the Cards," plus original creations like "Three Wrongs Make a Right." Every trick is built on solid, manageable...

How would you like to perform a Matrix assembly without any sleight of hand and using some ungimmicked coins and two borrowed credit cards as covers? Well, Magnetic Attraction allows you to do just that.

Four small coins (US Quarters or any other small coins can be used) are placed out in a square, and when two borrowed credit cards are lowered over them, they start to instantly jump until all four are collected under one card. Very easy to do, you'll marvel at the simplicity of the method!

1st edition 2017, PDF 4 pages.

The spectator shuffles the deck. The spectator rolls the dice. The spectator chooses which die to use. The spectator deals the cards. And you never touch a thing. Then comes the impossible. The card they set aside as an "offering" is revealed to match the sum of the dice - a perfect 7. And when they turn over the four packets they dealt themselves? The Four Aces. It looks like the dice predicted everything.

Why you'll love performing this:

• Spectator does all the work. They shuffle, they cut, they roll, they deal. You appear to be a bystander.
• No equivoque. No force. The spectator can...

A card selected and then lost in a shuffled deck will inexplicably be found by the magician, following a precise path traced by the cards themselves.

The Path Leading to the Choice is a unique card magic trick in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a deck of cards, hands it to a spectator to cut and complete. At that point, he divides the deck in two and asks the spectator to choose one of the two halves, shuffling it as he pleases, while he does the same with his own half of the deck. The spectator then chooses any card from his half and lost it into his own bunch, placing...

Una Carta Selezionata e poi Dispersa in un Mazzo Mescolato, verrà inspiegabilmente Ritrovata dal Mago, seguendo un Preciso Percorso tracciato dalle Carte Stesse!

Il Percorso che Conduce alla Scelta è Un effetto inedito di Cartomagia dove il mago, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato un mazzo di carte, lo consegna ad uno spettatore perché lo tagli e ricomponga. A quel punto divide in due il mazzo e fa scegliere una delle due parti allo spettatore perché lo mescoli a piacere mentre lui farà lo stesso con la propria parte del mazzo. Lo spettatore sceglierà una carta qualsiasi tra le sue e...

This intro price will go up to $30 from May 29, 2026.

A special surprise gift worth $12 is included inside.

I do not know how to pronounce 'Equivoque'. But I know how to perform it, like most magicians and mentalists. Equivoque is an age old technique which can be very powerful when performed right. There are many notable works on equivoque in magic literature.

But this ebook is not exactly about equivoque. This ebook is about a few unconventional techniques which when added to equivoque make it way more powerful and way more easy. And way more elegant. You are expected to know the...

The spectator shuffles the deck at the start. The magician removes a prediction card, then the spectator freely selects a card and loses it back into the deck.

Next, the magician has the spectator freely cut the deck, placing Jokers at the cut points. At first, the Jokers isolate a large section containing the selection, and eventually they sandwich the exact selection itself.

The deck is split at the selection, and behind all the apparent randomness, everything leads to the final outcome. There are three packets on the table, and the bottom card of each packet perfectly matches the...