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This volume, book three in the trilogy, is all about the psychology in magic. Mechanics alone, a sleight or move, are not sufficient to produce a strong magic effect. Dexterity by itself is more like juggling. Only if misdirection, the psychological aspect of deception, is added into the mix, will one be able to create a truly magic experience.

There aren't many good works on misdirection. This is one of the must read ebooks, a classic in the theory of magic. A shorter but modern discussion of misdirection can be read in Pocket Power by Jarle Leirpoll.

Paul Fleming wrote:

• ... PROPHESY: You write 6 digits on a card and give to anyone to hold. The digits are visible to the person holding them. Members of the audienc call out 4 digits while another person on the phone chooses 2 more. The six digits choosen are the ones on the card! Baffling beyond words to say the least.
• DAY OF JACKAL: A perfect stranger is called and asked to name three items. These three items have been written down before the show and held by the audience.
• WIZARD WALK: According to Mann this item alone is worth the price of the book. Call anyone over the phone tell him to get the telephone directory...

The legendary Pentagram Magazine edited by Peter Warlock appeared from 1946 to 1959. It features superb magic from Alex Elmsley, Robert Harbin, Fred Kaps, Stewart James, Dai Vernon, Al Koran, Roy Walton, Arthur Carter, Leslie May, Charles Cameron, Ron Baillie, Jack Avis, Gus Southall, Edmund Rowland, Ed Marlo, Graham Adams and many others.

Every trick can be accessed via the hyperlinked index.

Now the Pentagram is within reach of all those who enjoy great magic.

1st edition 1946-1959; 1311 pages.

• No. 1: October 1946
  • Your Fate In A Teacup / Peter Warlock
  • Super Speller / George Blake
  • Cig-Repeat / Cecil Tebbett
  • Tissue Paper Monte / Tom Sellers
• No. 2: November...

• ... PROPHESY: You write 6 digits on a card and give to anyone to hold. The digits are visible to the person holding them. Members of the audienc call out 4 digits while another person on the phone chooses 2 more. The six digits choosen are the ones on the card! Baffling beyond words to say the least.
• DAY OF JACKAL: A perfect stranger is called and asked to name three items. These three items have been written down before the show and held by the audience.
• WIZARD WALK: According to Mann this item alone is worth the price of the book. Call anyone over the phone tell him to get the telephone directory...

• ... his KIS Coin routine
• David J Brown interviews Jeff McBride
• Watch Peter Kane's Expanding card display
• Air in the Hats. A new series by Mel Moore
• Stephen Tucker's Miracles focus on the Berglas Effect
• Eddie Dawes collects info on the Milkman's Wallet, a library without books and the Collector's day
• Ian Adair's first class stamp collection
• Ali Cardabra produces an instant puppet
• Jim Breedon's Magic Pen writes of boxes of rings and things
• Phil Goldstein's Symboligarchy
• Werner Miller with yet more cupidity
• Unclassified ads. Buy, Sell or announce for free
• Soumya Deb has a bit of spare...

September 1940 - August 1941
Official American Organ for The International Alliance of Magicians Including S.A.M. and M-U-M pages
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Larsen, Editors

420 pages

1. Genii - Volume 5, Number 1 - September 1940 - 32 pages
1. Cover - Bernard A. Giannini
5. Bernard A. Giannini - biographical notes
5. We Hope You Are Like One of These - testimonials
5. Index- Contents
6. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
7. Nite Club Magic - Milbourne Christopher and Russell Swann
   • Opening Tricks and Gags
     • A Blare of Trumpets
     • A Pin Please
     • Introducing the Magician
     • The Rising...

January 2007 - December 2007
Richard Kaufman, Editor

1400 pages

1. Genii - Volume 70, Number 1 - January 2007 - 120 pages - Free "Bruise" Enclosed from Creative Magic
1. Cover - Tony Chapek
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
11. Now Performing - The Magic Castle - Las Vegas
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Magic: A Joking Matter?
    • Is Magic and Infinite Game?
    • Everybody has ADD
    • There May Be More to Mitt-Reading Than Palms
13. Cartoon - Rich Powell & Josh Mandel
15. Max Maven's Monthly Inquisition
16. The Genii Session - Roberto Giobbi
    • Assemblage II - Continued from November...

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

631 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 23, Number 1 – January 1983 – 52 pages
1. Cover – Terry Seabrooke
7. Contents
8. This Business of Magic – Thomas Zoss
   • Another Working Pro Who Deserves Attention – re: Danny Orleans
9. More Information on Marlo’s Controlled Table Riffle Faro – Ed Marlo
15. Sucker Jap Box – Earle J. Coleman
15. cartoon – The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
16. Sid Lorraine’s Chatter – Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Martin Breese’s Convention Special No. 9 News Letter
      • Catalog No. 32...

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

661 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 30, Number 1 - January 1990 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Melanie [actually Melinda - see February Issue]
5. Contents
6. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
8. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
11. Counter Intelligence - reviews
    • Laugh-Makers Magazine
    • Club 71, Autumn 1989
    • Magickal Childe, Inc. - catalog
    • The Usborne Complete Book of Magic - C. Evans & I. Keable-Elliott
    • The Anthology of Card Magic - Gordon Miller, editor - re-issued
    • The Cabot St. Theatre News Sheet
    • Randy Wakeman Presents
    • Floating Bill - Michael Ammar
    • refill packet...

November 1991 - October 1992
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

856 pages

1. Genii - Volume 55, Number 1 - November 1991 - 76 pages
1. Cover - Doc Eason
5. In This Issue - contents
25. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
26. Doc Eason Feature - The Rocky Mountain Magic of Doc Eason
    26. My First Visit to The Tower - Michael Ammar
    27. Doc Eason Interviewed by Eric Mead
    28. The Tower Magic Bar
    29. Have Card Trick ... Will Travel - Doc Eason
    31. Jamy Ian Swiss on: Magic Bar
        • The Legend Lives
        • The Texture of the Weave
    32. Some Words about Doc from Ray Mertz and Karl Norman
    33. Mertz's...

January 1945 - December 1945
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 10, Number 1 - January 1945 - 32 pages
1. Cover - Cazan
3. With the Editor - Mel
3. Contents
4. Cazan - The Girl Houdini!
4. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • reviews
     • The Trick Brain - Dariel Fitzkee
     • The Modern Magi, November
     • Card Mastery - Michael MacDougall
   • Questions and Answers
7. Magic Promotes War Drives
8. Drink Your Milk - Gene Gloye
9. Stoogeless Tie Trick - Sheldon Levy
9. Or Would You Rather Be a Dope? - McAthy's...

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

633 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 25, Number 1 - January 1985 - 52 pages
1. Cover - 1985
7. Contents
8. Invitation to Mystery, 3rd Series - Stewart James
   • Topside
9. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
9. Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
10. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • Books, Tricks, Tapes 'N Things
      • Strange Secrets Volumes 1 & 2 [3 just released] - Abbott's
      • The Bobo Magic Show - Magic, Inc.
      • The Master Illusionists - Mark Walker
      • Spirit Cloth Book - Rhett Bryson, Jr., Dexter Cleveland & Algonquin McDuff
      • A Fragment of...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ...
     • Kermit Johnson
59. 1992 New Year's Resolutions
    • Mac Maven
    • Mike Caveney
    • Eugene Burger
    • Michael Weber
    • Mac King
    • Stephen Minch
63. Talk About Tricks - Joshua Jay
    63. New Tricks for a New Year
        63. The Watchman - Pete McCabe
        65. Trapper Keeper - Justin Wheatley
        66. One Card Monte - Josh Janousky
        67. The Warm-Up - Ernesto Melero
        68. Le Cool Control - Christian Grenier
70. Loving Mentalism - Ian Rowland
    • Singer Zinger
72. Directions - Joanie Spina
    • #12, Take a Bow!
74. Bent on Deception - Mike Bent
    • Wooly Bully, or How I Learned to...

On the covers are

• Albert Verity
• John Ramsay
• Tom Morley
• Chris Woodward
• Ralph Chart
• Eddie Taytelbaum
• Evelyn Rose
• Leslie May
• Kovari
• Andrew Dalziel
• Ludow
• David Hemingway

1. Volume 18, Number 1, May, 1962, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Albert Verity
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
   • Double Knot Release
5. The Homing Matches - Rink
7. Coins Across - Rink
8. Corner Count - Tom Sellers
10. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Colour Television - John Bragoli
12. A Sel-Dem Prediction - Jesse Demaline
13. Lewis Ganson Explains...

The Magigram, Volume 8, The Supreme Magic Company, Ken de Courcy, editor

916 pages. No page numbers on printed issues, page numbers refer to the page in the file.

1. Volume 8, Number 1, September, 1975, 72 unnumbered pages - New Cover! New Series! New Magic!
2. advertisements
7. Let's Face It - editorial by Ken de Courcy
8. Kennaugh Kalling - Alan Kennaugh on the Show Business Scene
10. Great! - testimonial
10. How Many Cards! - answer
11. Edwin's Magi-Go-Round - comments from Edwin Hooper
14. Ian Adair - Ideas Associated
    • Cotton-Reel Lace
15. Call Yourself a Magician - Harry Carnegie
    • Dart ...

September 1938 - August 1939
Official American Organ for The International Alliance of Magicians
William W. Larsen, Editor and Publisher

412 pages

1. Genii - Volume 3, Number 1 - September 1938 - 40 pages
1. Cover - Al Robbins
5. Albert C. Robbins - biographical notes
5. In This Issue - Contents
5. My Favorite Tricks - The Editor
   • A Bit Of Clairvoyance
6. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
7. Mr. Charles Waller, of Australia Presents The Parcel That Makes Itself
7. "Old Stuff" - George G. Kaplan
8. Eddie Clever Presents Measured Thoughts
10. William Tell Up-To-Date - George Postle
11. Oscar Weigle,...

September 1946 - August 1947
Including M-U-M pages - and Magigals
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Larsen, Editors

392 pages

1. Genii - Volume 11, Number 1 - September 1946 - 32 pages
1. Cover - Claude S. Leaf
7. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
8. Stock Market Millions - Walter Price
8. Facts and Fallacies - [Teral] Garrett
9. Do As I Do Matchbox - Walter Price
9. Did You Know That - Maury Kains
10. The Drop Change Over - Glen [sic] Gravatt
11. M.U.M. - The official news of The S.A.M. is an eight-page insert for S.A.M. Members
11. Claude S. Leaf - biographical sketch
12. The L.W. Mysteries for Children - William Larsen & T. Page...

July 1987 - June 1988
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

864 pages

1. Genii - Volume 51, Number 1 - July 1987 - 72 pages
1. Cover - The Absolons
5. In This Issue - contents
18. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
19. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
20. Czechoslovakian Magic Section
    20. A Short History of Czechoslovakian Conjuroring - Karel Absolon
    21. Karel and Blanka Absolon - AN Autobiography
    23. Double Wine Production - Karel Absolon
    24. Meet the Czechoslovakian Magicians
        24. The Family Kellner
        24. Oklama
        25. Joss Kaiser
        26. Duo Valer
        27. Karel Vaverka
        28. Zdenek Seeman
        29. Duo Dlabal ...

November 1996 - October 1997
Irene Larsen, Publisher and Erika Larsen, Editor

1024 pages Each issue starts with page number one - therefore, each page has an issue number and a page number.

1. Genii - Volume 60, Number 1 - November 1996 - 92 pages
1. Cover - Joel Hodgson
5. Contents
11. The Genii Speaks - Erika Larsen
16. Letters
    • Anniversary Waltz - Stanley Blumenthal
    • Richard Cohn
    • Anniversary Faults - Eugene Poinc
    • Plans for the Future - Molly Meyer
    • Wherever - Eugene Burger
    • T.M.W.K.T.M. - Max Maven
    • Artist Currently Known As - Hamlet Gervorkian
    • Sitting on a Barbed Wire...

January 2006 - December 2006
Richard Kaufman, Editor

1424 pages

1. Genii - Volume 69, Number 1 - January 2006 - 120 pages
1. Cover - Jean-Jacques Sanvert
4. Bob Read 1940-2005
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
11. Now Performing - The Magic Castle - Las Vegas
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Bob Read 1940-2005
14. Bob Read and the Cups and Balls - Teller
17. Max Maven's Monthly Inquisition
15. Cartoon - Martin's Misdirection - James Burks
24. The Genii Session - Roberto Giobbi
    • a look at the methodological concepts that make card magic work
26. The Language of Illusion - Jim Steinmeyer ...

January 1944 - December 1944
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

389 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 9, Number 1 - January 1944 - 32 pages
1. Cover - Joe Ovette
3. With the Editor - Mel
3. Contents
4. The Great Ovette - Nuff Said!
4. Thanks for Holiday Greetings - Percy Abbott
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • reviews
     • Tarbell Course, Volume 3
     • Fleming Book Reviews No. 50
     • Hugard's Magic Monthly, December
   • Questions and Answers
7. re: Bob Haxton
7. re: John J. Oakes
8. "Magic on Broadway" - Al Minder
9. Talk About Philadelphia...

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

672 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 28, Number 1 - January 1988 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Philip Morris
5. Contents
6. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
   • miscellaneous
     • Epoptica, October
     • Spirited Pasteboards - Leo Boudreau
     • Almost Unpublished - David Ginn
     • John Calvert and Adventures Around the World - William V. Rauscher
     • Inspirations - Jerry Sadowitz & Peter Duffie
     • Bookishly Yours - J.B. Findlay
     • How Much Are You Worth - Ron London
     • Ponsin on Conjuring - S.H. Sharpe - reprint
     • lecture notes - Abel...

September 1954 - August 1955
Geraldine Larsen, William Larsen, Jr. & Milton Page Larsen, Editors

425 pages (11 double pages)

1. Genii - Volume 19, Number 1 - September 1954 - 36 pages
1. Cover - Thurston's Mysteries of India
7. Dealer's Directory
9. On with the Show - Gerrie Larsen
10. The Elevator Aces - Kirk Kirkham & Lynn Searles
11. Speed-O-Print - Richard L. Piser
12. Ring-O - Larry Becker
13. Behind the Back - Royal Brin, Jr.
14. Mystery Circus - Verne Chesbro
    • The Vampire Block
15. Rabbit in Hat Cut-Out - Keith Lingly
16. The Trickeries of Bill Larsen - F. Michael Shields
    • The Comedy of the...