Bizarre in Mentalism & Spiritism

Guy Bavli has followed Uri Geller as Israel's magician and mentalist who specializes in metal bending. Guy is a full-time professional, constantly performing on television both in the United States and abroad. Guy is also a three-time winner of the Israeli Gold Cup Award for "Best Magician."

These DVDs have originally been released by A1-Magical Media and are now being made available as downloads.

Michael J. Fraughton's material has been difficult to find—until now. For many years The Dark Waltz, a text on the fine art of Bizarre Magic, has rested within the ownership of L&L Publishing. Now, it is available at last. Within its pages you will find many of Michael’s signature routines like 'The Dorian Hand of Glory' and 'The Phantom Violinist'.

It has taken time, but at last Michael has opened his world to you. Welcome to the dark side of illusion.

Michael J. Fraughton is being recognized as one of the foremost up and coming Bizarre magicians. This is his full show, along with...

"This is the best thing in bizarre magic to have happened to me in years. I am quite taken by the effects, the methods, the props, the presentations and the advice on performing. The results are novel, thoughtful, funny and scary. To be blunt, I wish I had created it all myself."
- Robert Neale, Creator, Author, Life, Death, and Other Card Tricks, Tricks of the Imagination, The Magic Mirror

"Shane is one of the most original and creative writers of practical bizarre material around. Like me you will be enchanted with Shane's imaginative presentations. His stories range from high comedy to subjects...

Seance Magazine - a quarterly magazine devoted to spirit magic - was published from fall 1988 until summer of 1991, a total of 12 issues. This is a facsimile reproduction including every published page and every tipped in sheet of advertisement.

This magazine is considered one of the best publications on theatrical seances with contributions by legends such as Eugene Burger, Tony Andruzzi, Phil Goldstein (Max Maven), T.A. Waters, Punx, Bob Baker, Lee Earle, Jim Magus, and others, and of course Scott Davis himself. It is a great source for performances during Halloween and other spooky or bizarre performances. ...

Punx considered Borodin (Ulf Bolling) his best student, who had a gift weaving storytelling and magic into one coherent and mesmerizing unit. This work has received numerous accolades including from Ted Lesley who wrote:

"Believe me friends, it is a wonderful book. The first trick in it is alone worth 10 times more, as you have to pay for it. I recommend it highly!!!!

Sheherazade is not a magic book. Sheherazade is also not a story book. Sheherazade is the successful synthesis of the two. This ebook contains extremely refined routines which are easy to perform. They are dressed up in artistic presentations...

One could hardly ask for a more visual demonstration of unusual mental powers. For an astonishing few moments, the universal laws of physics are seemingly displaced. Four volunteers, using only two fingertips each, somehow lift a seated adult from his chair high into the air as though he were made of Styrofoam. And no one is more astonished than the lifters themselves, considering that moments before the sitter was as immovable as a couple hundred pounds of dead weight ought to be. What's more, the phenomenon is completely under the control of the performer who can turn the power on and off...

Dee Christopher is known for his haunted magic and mentalism; in this ebook he reveals his tricks of the trade...

This is the ultimate Halloween publication to put you above the competition and ensure your act is suitably chilling and mystical. Featuring classic and hard to find Dee Christopher routines, alongside many new presentations and work on haunted effects.

• You will learn how to make spirit writing burn itself into a pocket notebook - An incredibly spooky effect with an instant reset, making it a perfect walk around performance piece.
• The classic haunted key effect is brought...

Paul Voodini presents Victorian Seance and the Birth of Mentalism, recounting the rise of Spiritualism in the 1800s, the antics, tricks, and techniques of the fraudulent mediums, and how this led directly to the birth of that branch of the magical arts known as 'mentalism.'

This detailed manuscript outlines and explains such techniques and methods as mesmerism and hypnosis, table-tipping, slates, automatic writing, book tests, 'reading' techniques and Q&A, spirit manifestations, the Ouija board, and much, much more. The text also touches on escapology, quick change, and other magical techniques. ...

In recent years magic has experienced a renewed and keen interest in mental, bizarre and storytelling magic. Magic that does more than just fool the eyes and mind, magic that tugs on the heart strings, that stirs arcane fears and longing, magic that grabs the audience and won't let go. Sometimes the experience is light and airy, sometimes it probes a bit deeper and provokes self analysis and even resolve, sometimes it is just plain spooky.

David Goodsell and the late Larry White spent three years of their lives gathering the best of this kind of magic in their unique Oracle Magic Magazine...

Carlos Emesqua's unique approaches to Spirit Magic. Powerful, realistic and spooky pieces of mystery done in creative new ways.

• Essay: The fundamental secret for Spirit Magic
• 1. Fire Match: Learn how to create a self-ignite match, using any borrowed match. (No chemicals, no preparation)
• 2. Ectoplasm: Make an ectoplasm appear anytime, anywhere (Highly practical)
• 3. Emesqua Voodoo: An unique and powerful demonstration of voodoo using business cards.
• 4. Image of the Soul: A paranormal phenomena using a photo and a strange vanish.
• 5. Emesqua Spirit Writing: Just a few pieces of papers are...

Here are the secrets of Charles Cameron's stunning Castle Dracula Show. Charles Cameron is well known as the father of modern Bizarre magic. And for years, in a specially-built theatre at the Edinburgh Wax Museum, he and his group produced an amazing show which included brilliant original effects.

The show was honed year after year until each effect was near perfect and here in this work, Charles at last reveals his closely guarded secrets. Every single effect included can be performed exactly as described. Only a handful of props are required for you to emulate the mysteries that fooled...

Available at last! Paul Voodini's semi-mythical PDF The Secrets of the Mesmeric Seance is a tour de force, covering routines, presentations, and demonstrations for the mystery entertainer, all centered around the themes of mesmerism/hypnosis, paranormal activity, and seance. The routines and presentations are all fully scripted and explained in detail.

Detailed contents: inductions with magnet and magnetised objects, induction with animal magnetism, magnetic attraction on dowsing rods and pendulums, creating 'magical objects' and allowing clairvoyance, using mesmeric inductions to enhance...

Imagine being able to have a spectator select any one of several nails from a new unopened package, marking it for identification, and then bending it in front of their eyes!

Now imagine wowing your crowd by having them write private information and questions on business cards and folding them into quarters. You collect them in a sealed container and still begin to reveal information that you shouldn't know! Based on a Lee Earle principle, this new variation can be used with the phoenix peek to mix methods and create an all audience size miracle! The gimmick described costs .97 cents, is...

In his $1,000.00 Seance Docc Hilford introduced the idea of the "Mini" Seance. Craig Browning now takes that premise, delivering to you an informative essay on the art of the improvisational Seance and the arsenal you either have at your disposal WITHOUT THE AID OF A SINGLE GIMMICK as well as those that rely on some of the basic devices most students of Mentalism and Bizarre Magick are familiar with. The ebook is insightful, giving you a unique sense of perspective on one of the author's pet mini-seance routines "Ghost in the Pocket".

1st edition 2009; 29 pages.

In this one-hour and twenty-minute video, you'll learn every detail of the spoon bending routine Scott has performed all over Europe for the past twenty years as part of his professional act. A complete psychic spoon bending routine suitable for both cabaret and close-up using just four spoons, with an alternate handling using three spoons and even a Zoom variation, all broken down into simple, easy to learn steps.

Included is a full performance of the routine presented in front of a live audience. No special gaffs or gimmicks required, just the spoons and the techniques taught.

1st edition...

The Ultimate Key Bending Routine.

In the early 1970’s, at the "dawning of the Age of Aquarius," a young Israeli named Uri Geller attracted worldwide attention with his "psychic" abilities. While he demonstrated several paranormal skills, it was his "psychokinetic" ability to bend silverware, borrowed keys, and nails that set him apart from other "New Age" psychics. In the years that followed many mentalists and magicians added "metal bending" routines to their repertoires, and many sleights and gimmicks have been devised to facilitate the effect.

You may have noticed that most of the...

The power to provoke motion with one's mind is something that has fascinated man since the existence of such a concept. Imagine a perfectly simplistic demonstration of mind over matter.

In this video download, you will learn how to make a borrowed soda can move freely across the table at a moments notice.

Dee Christopher teaches with the utmost precision this underground miracle, with all the tips, tricks and subtleties added in so that you can go out and perform this effect and blow peoples minds.

You will learn two versions, one an impromptu version without any gimmicks, and another...

Paul Voodini presents the world famous Jack the Ripper Séance! This detailed manuscript provides the mystery performer with all the information required to stage a frighteningly good evening of murderous séance theatre, exactly as the Great Voodini has been presenting to the paying public in London’s famous Covent Garden theatre land! No pipe dreams here! This manuscript is the result of performing for paying members of the public!

With the express intention of establishing spirit communication with Jack the Ripper and his unfortunate victims, your guests will be taken on a heart-stopping...

The Picture Flame is a device for burning or smouldering any image in a normal looking picture frame without coming into contact with it. Very dramatic and visual. No liquids, No gases, No flash products! Can be used as a reveal, a prediction, a psychic experiment etc.

In this ebook you will learn how to build your very own Picture Flame from the ground up.

Includes

• full colour photos
• list of all materials and tools

1st edition 2011; 43 pages.

In this ebook you will learn how to make your very own Smoulder Paper. Smoulder Paper, unlike Flash paper, smoulders away slowly and dramatically with no flames. Smoulder Paper is controllable and can leave parts of the paper untouched and unburned.

Includes

• List of all materials
• Tips and tricks

1st edition 2011; 20 pages.

Make clouds vanish, appear and more. With a preface by Paolo Cavalli and a foreword by Enrique Enriquez.

Two of the world's foremost 'Cloudbusters' reveal their inner secrets of cloud magic!

In this ebook the authors strip away the veil of secrecy, revealing cloud secrets only known to a select few. Learn to make clouds vanish and appear. Sculpture them into images of selected playing cards, thought of numbers, ESP symbols, faces, and even animals.

Nothing is held back. Apparently change the weather by delaying rain or snow or even by making it warmer. Believe it or not you can do a...

In Arts Notorious Rob Chapman unites the world of performance magic with the world of magick creating a practical, thought provoking handbook for those who wish to explore the art of magic in new, yet ancient ways. Finally a real insight into what magic and magick can be and how it can be presented to audiences.

With guest contributions from Kenton Knepper and Paul Voodini, forwarded by Mark Townsend.

"This book is nothing short of a feast, a rich banquet of succulence, that will not only empower you to inspire and shock, but will also enlighten you. The enclosed routines and essays (read reverently and imaginatively)...

King Solomon bound 72 spirits in a brazen vessel, the Babylonians let them out again. Now you can demonstrate the mysteries of the Spirits of the Brazen Vessel.

• Let your audience feel the power of invocation
• Communicate with the guardian spirit of a magic mirror
• A volunteer becomes transfixed by the mirror, and starts to describe visions
• Spectator makes an impossible revelation

[Please note that for one part of the routine, a glass moving effect, you will need to buy a particular product. This manuscript does not explain how this part of the routine works.]

An ebook about Chaos Magick and Druidry.

In this ebook you will find a creative fusion of Druidry and Chaos Magick, inspired writings and ritual. All of this is necessary, none of it is needed! Julian Vayne author of Now Thats What I Call Chaos Magick says: "Okay perhaps 'the magick that can be written about is not true magick' but Rob Chapman comes closer than most to successfully describing the indescribable."

1st edition 2012, 45 pages.

Learn a complete evening of magical mystery entertainment, with only three stones. Take your audience on a journey into a world of strange energies, sacred stones and shamanic journey. Scripts, notes and ideas including some of the ethical questions that performing such work can bring up. This is as close as you will get to real magic for an audience. Your choice is do you stay a performer or become a New Age Guru!

"Rob's AOT is an excellent example of how a professional devises an exciting and highly atmospheric evening of psychic entertainment - and the author's thoughts about the ethics...

• Spoons from Card Case - Produce spoons from your card case - how do they fit?
• Bending a Spoon in a Spectator's Hand - Bend metal with your mind.
• Bag Bend - A complete act involving members of the audience; spoons bend and break.
• Melting a Spoon in a Spectator's Hand - A spoon melts and breaks while in a spectator's hand.
• Miracle with a Fork - One of the tines on a fork bends, unbends and then breaks.
• Energy Hand - By simply waving your hand over a spoon, it bends.
• Perfect Key Bending - A borrowed and signed key is bent using only the power of your mind.
• Haunted Spoon - The ultimate haunted...

• Incredibly Clean - An easy mental masterpiece with cards.
• Question Mark Mystery - A matching pair of cards is located by a spectator using only the power of the mind.
• Fan Vision - A thought-of card, the performer names it.
• The Perfect Prediction - The ultimate book test, near-impossible conditions.
• Impromptu Card Stab - A card is selected and lost; cards are tossed into the air and the selection is impaled on a knife.
• The Lottery Prediction - Six spectators correctly pick the winning lottery numbers.

• Bending a Large Nail - Mind power demonstration.
• Bending a Small Nail - Very devious method.
• Shrinking Spoon - Visibly cause a spoon to shrink.
• Spoon through Table - With the handle visible, a spoon penetrates the table top.
• Stopping a Watch/Time of the Future - A borrowed watch is caused to stop working; then, under a spectator's hand, the time mysteriously moves forward several hours.
• Headline Prediction - Perform a mental miracle using the day's newspaper.
• The Perfect Clipboard - Guy's ultimate routine for the popular marketed clipboards. Just like real mindreading.

Dim Mak is a secret technique taught by martial artists that can render a man dead with just a touch!

Within this e-book, you will learn a technique known as Dim Mak: the PK Touch. Taught only to a select few mentalists, this devastating new manuscript will lead you through several "real" techniques on how to appear to stop someone's pulse! Not only do you get several methods to ensure that the pulse stops, you also get a full routine with the Dim Mak back story. No reason to be scared off by psychology, Dim Mak teaches practical physical techniques to appear to stop your own pulse and a...

Five haunted tales for bizarre magic performances. Includes the full script of each 5-10 minute story plus information and complete instructions on how to make and use a correlated magic effect in each presentation. Includes stories from Jim's professional working repertoire, The Invisible Man, Aunt Cora's Haunted Toy, The Ghost of the Lafayette Hotel, The Steampunk You, and the eerie, nostalgic and scary For Whom The Bell Tolls. Audience-tested routines just as they are used by Jim in his bizarre Ohio Spirits programs. Also includes a section on how to put together a spirit show, where to present...

"Dee Christopher offers here a unique text focusing solely on the area of deception that he has come to dominate in recent years. This tome is a perfect example of why." - Daniel Madison (Deceptions Expert)

From the ebook's synopsis:

The underground Carlos Emesqua offers now in this new work a fantastic set of ideas for your repertoire the power of using PK also known as Psychokinesis. Realistic moments of mystery using natural objects, offering supernatural events. New approaches for bending, techniques, routines and more.

For years, Carlos was able to create a reputation as real Psychic and Psychic Entertainer using these routines. Learn them and you will be able to offer realistic moments of mystery

1. REAL PKMB: For the first time, you will learn the real secrets in doing metal bending as real psychic and not a...

Can you really send matter through Zoom? Yes! With Teleport. Perhaps the most amazing virtual effect invented yet. This is an effect for premium shows only. Do not include this in your regular gig. "Want to see me send a coin to your CEO? That'll be x-amount of dollars extra!"

In this new eBook by Vince Wilson, you will learn how to perform it and what you will need to do to prevent them from figuring it out.

1st edition 2020, PDF 6 pages.

From the mind of Vince Wilson is his most ambitious project yet - Spirit Boxed. Vince takes very simple and forgotten pieces of magic and turns them into elegant works of storytelling art. Vince has crafted an entire “show in a box” that packs small and plays huge. He has created a new character in storytelling that moves through the decades of the 20th Century meeting historic figures like Al Capone, Emilia Earhart, Veronica Lake, Babe Ruth, Howard Thurston, Orson Welles and now you.

“I really like it! Lots of fun and a good thru story! I also like the idea of taking under appreciated...

An epic theatrical production. Includes an amazing pocket watch routine that can be used in many other performances. "When the work was discovered at the bottom of Poe's writing desk, it was in a previously unknown secret compartment. Thrilling, is it not? Baltimore Poe scholars were certainly thrilled, and a special edition collection would herald the announcement. Alas, this would not come to pass. According to friends of mine in the Poe Historical Society, strange things began to happen to those preparing the edition for publication. An editor died of TB. The first case in Baltimore for many...