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The Annotated M.I.N.T. series continues. Thanks to Ed Marlo and Wesley James, M.I.N.T III, IV, V, VI, and Annotated M.I.N.T. 1963 - 1965 are already available. The release of this volume takes yet another step toward the availability of the entire run of Marlo In New Tops material with Wesley's extensive annotations, supplemental and Bonus material. The content of this volume is exceptional in its importance. The volume includes only seven articles but three of them are of special note and one was ground breaking when it was released and remains pivotal today, more than 50 years later. This...

This book release was countered with a release of A Counterblast to Spookland by Psyche.

• Chapter I: Introduction: SOME TYPICAL AND HISTORIC MATERIALIZATION SÉANCES.
• Chapter II: The "Test" Seances and Criticisms. TEST No. 1. - The Materialization of Spirits While the Medium is Sitting Outside Cabinet.
• Chapter III: TEST No. 2: The First Photographic Séance - "Geordie" Photographed.
• Chapter IV: TEST No. 3: The Second Photographic Seance, and the Result. TEST No. 4: The Third Photographic Seance, and Remarkable Developments. ...

The Noon Stack is the only stack in the world with three official names. It is also called the Midnight Deck or the Moon Stack. You can either start learning this stack exactly at 12 noon or exactly at 12 midnight, any day.

Okay, on a more serious note, Noon Stack is a simple algorithmic stack that forms a nice memorized deck. Given a card, you can know its position and given a position, you can know the card at that position. And literally speaking, if you start learning this stack at 12 noon (or 12 midnight), you can completely get this down in less than an hour by about 1 pm (or 1 am)....

Like the Billiard Balls, and Linking Rings the Indian Cups and Balls have become a classic of Magic. The apparatus is "designed" exclusively for Magic... (like the Linking rings), one does not come across such things in everyday life. While this may not find favour with many performers, whose idea of magic is to perform miracles with "everyday" objects,...their very design makes possible miracles of a type not possible with many other objects. For unlike Silk Cabbies, and Ghost Tubes, there is nothing fake about the apparatus itself...but their shape and construction make possible a surprising...

When Teller saw this he said: "A work of mad genius."

Here at the Mad Genius Institute (MGI) we spend our days chasing the elusive butterfly of love and when we realize it's just another of the many delusions that sent us here in the first place, we get back to our real work: creating mind-bending magic so far outside the box it's a long-distance call to reality.

What happens when you decide to use not one or two Chop Cups but three? Three Chop Cups and three magnetic balls: you can't get farther from the mundane than that.

• Phase 1: Ball vanishes and appears in a Crown Royal bag. ...

Stories of card and revolver play, told by a man who "worked" the trains with his confederates in the days when stakes ran high.

If one believes this account, then a lot of the crooked gambling on trains was simply theft at gunpoint rather than sophisticated sleight-of-hand card advantage play.

1st edition 1910, PDF 7 pages.

• ... is cut into the deck and the Black-sandwich remains tabled. After a magic pass, the red and black Aces transpose.
• Second Sell: This uses Roy Walton's subtlety as popularly applied to Larry Jenning's "Visitor" routine.
• Black Sandwich - Red Sandwich: The seedling of the Visitor plot is one where a selected card magically travels from between a pair of sandwiching black cards, such as the Jacks, in one half of a deck, to appear between the red counterparts in the other half of the same deck. This plot was devised by L. Vosburgh Lyons and appeared in The Jinx.
• Lyon's Original Version:...

• ... A Lift
• Master Observation
• Spy Stuff
• Bunk and Bunco
• Bit of Business for Cards to Pocket
• Fingertips
• Burnt Toast
• The F. & G. Torn Newspaper Method
• An Egg in the Hand
• Bit of Business for the Linking Rings
• The Test Coin Vanish
• The F. & G. Fancy Shuffle
• Whiskey Glass Swindle
• The F. & G. One-Handed Top Steal
• The Suspended Ring

"I believe you will like this book -- I recommend it." - J. G. Thompson, Jr.

"The ideas explained by the F. and G. boys are effective and of the sort that are quite popular today." - Sid Lorraine

1st edition 1947, PDF 24 pages.

12 previously unreleased card routines. Strong, practical card magic with an efficient approach to the moves and construction. They are clearly described with numerous photographs for ease of learning.

• Giobbi Aces
• Cheese Melt
• Sneak
• One Across
• Over Eat
• Mambo Number 5
• Pinch
• Disburse
• Remix
• Birthday Card Trick
• Diamond Cutter
• Staple Diet! This one needs a little more than your regular deck, but the effect is dynamite!

1st edition 2014, PDF 62 pages.

Off-Colour Hummer - A spectator freely names a suit, then freely mixes a four-of-a-kind under the table (or behind their back). Their freely named suit is the only one that ends up face-up - then turns out to have a different colour back.

Curry Favour - A killer prediction of three freely named cards from a deck, all predicted in advance under cover of a reading.

Pre-Emptive Prime - A presentational idea to demonstrate the next move by Amazon to get products...

• The Magician Of The Yearbook - Ron Urban
• The Princess And The Royal Rope (A Patter Story)
• Trickities II (The First Trickities Is In The 1958 Yearbook)
• Phantom Tube And Candle Routine For Children
• Routine For A Rubber Dove
• Seek A Peek Plexiglas Clip Board
• "Coo Coo" Savon
• Idea For A Lota
• A "Refreshing" Lecture
• Make Safety A Habit
• A Day At The Races
• Counterfeiter's Dream
• Yeow!
• Old Glory Be!
• Hypo Phoney Routine
• The Fantastic Bill Transposition
• Presto Coin Stand
• New Multipurpose Card Exchange Folder
• Magic Roulette
• Chinese Symbol Gag
• The Miser's Dream
• Variation On The Soft Soap Trick
• Rope...

A collection of graceful arts, merry games, and odd tricks, intended to amuse everybody and enable all to amuse everybody else. Full of suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, charades, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements. With nearly 150 illustrative pictures.

In the days without the Internet, TV, or even radio, people entertained themselves. This book covers all kinds of things one can do from arts and crafts, little plays, simple conjuring tricks, and other activities.

1st edition 1866, 302 pages; PDF 157 pages.

Gaffed games, clever cons, sensational swindles - how to spot the bunco artist before he cheats you.

This may well be the greatest exposé of gambling methods, swindles, confidence games and carnival midway hustles ever published. No matter if you're a magician, gambler, carnival midway patron (or operator), law enforcement professional, or simply want to protect yourself, you're going to enjoy this book.

Especially valuable to those with an interest in carnival and gaming paraphernalia are the methods used to gaff the devices as sold back in the day by H. C. Evans, K. C. Card Co., and...

Born in Columbus, Ohio. He became one of the most famous 20th century magicians. Thurston's biggest break was being chosen as "successor" to Harry Kellar, Dean of American Magicians. Thurston weathered the changing tastes and economic conditions of the 1920's into his retirement in the mid-1930's. His commitment to the finest advertising pieces has left a legacy of amazing high-quality posters chronicling his entire career, as well as custom-minted coins, clever dream interpretation books and advertising tie-ins. Thurston also used scaling cards, custom printed playing cards with publicity photos and advertising; he would "scale", or throw, the cards with...

One day, the famous film director, Ottokar Runze, required Ted's help for an audit. On the occasion of the discussion of the audit, Ted's magic worked its wonders on the director so well, that on the spot, he offered him a major role in his film 'The Lord of Barmbeck.' Immediately after the film work, Ted gave up his profession in order to 'tread the boards which portray the world.'

Ted worked...

He has formally studied more than performance magic. He has obtained a working knowledge of literature, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, art, physics as related to cosmology and many other fields. He has earned an Advanced Diploma in historical studies from Oxford University. He has performed for Audiences ranging from the listeners of the nationally syndicated...

She is famous even today as one of the most powerful Voodoo priestesses who ever lived. Unfortunately few hard facts are known about her life. details of her exact parentage and origin are uncertain. She moved to New Orleans in her youth and was raised a devout Catholic - later becoming friends with Pere Antoine, the chaplain at St. Louis Cathedral. At the age of twenty-five, Marie joined a local freeman Jacques Paris in what was by all accounts a happy marriage. Later after his disappearance and presumed death, she lived with Cristophe Glapion. Between the two men, Marie bore fifteen children including her daughter Marie who bore a striking resemblance to her mother and eventually...

Peter Duffie is an extremely clever and skilled card man from the UK, a scotsman to be precise. In this ebook he will teach you 13 easy to do card effects with a normal deck of cards. Enjoy!

1st edition, 2000.

ACECRAFT: Two selections - four Aces - and an unexpected outcome. All in a day's work.

SUDDEN IMPACT: The audience believe you are going to cut to the Aces - they get a bigger surprise when you don't!

POPULACE: This very easy way of doing Roy Walton's Collectors has been my working repertoire for a while.

IMPOSSIBLE OPENER: Two spectators select cards in the fairest of manners. Your back...

Aaron has been active in and studied every aspect of theater. He has appeared in over 25 stage productions, directed several more and served on the technical staff of countless other productions.

Aaron's life was forever changed when a friend took him to a magic shop. Aaron's new love of this performance art made him decide to take a chance and make magic his career. After quitting his job in retail management to manage a magic shop,...

Barnaby has entertained audiences around the world for over 25 years. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife, dog, and four pieces of luggage.

I watched Kreskin do his version of message reading and couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw, what to my mind was, one of the methods given in these instructions. The Volta System is definitely a derivative of Glenn Falkenstein’s work. There is a technique for reading messages when the audience is only a few feet from the performer as well as methods for club and stage work. Tips and procedures are noted throughout...