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It is, by itself, also a great true crime book, regardless of what you might make of the Erdnase connection it champions.

• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Rogue's Run
• Chapter 2: The Last Hour
• Chapter 3: The Man
• Chapter 4: The Author
• Chapter 5: On The Road With Bessie
• Chapter 6: For The Love Of Nulda
• Post Mortem
• Chapter 7: Suicide Or Snuff?
• Chapter 8: American Bluebeard?
• The Magic Of Erdnase
• Chapter 9: Personal Effects
• Chapter 10: Sources...

Here, then, is that act, routined to perfection.

Plus, in this updated release, we include another Thayer escape feature: the Bengal Thumb Tie. It was one of Larsen's favorites; it will become one of yours, too.

"A fast, up-to-date version of the Handcuff Escape Act." - Billy McComb

1st edition 1944, PDF 17 pages.

Warum immer nur Spielkarten?

Die Anzahl Kartenkunststücke scheint unbegrenzt zu sein, wenn auch sehr viele nur Variationen bestimmter Themen sind. Aber auch die Anzahl solcher Themen ist sehr, sehr groß. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob man gewisse dieser Themen nicht auf andere Objekte als Spielkarten...

• NUMMER 0 (1986)
  • Immer Dieses Bier
  • Der Trostpreis
• 1. JAHRGANG (1987): NUMMER 1
  • Der Rote Punkt
  • Psychodrama
  • The Jinx: Gedankenlesen Aus Der Zeitung
• 1. JAHRGANG (1987): NUMMER 2
  • Zur Erinnerung An Glenn Gravatt
  • Die Farbpunkte: Ein Taschen-Mentaleffekt
  • Der Drei-Tassen-Trick, Version Nr.?
  • Karten (Wirklich) Kolorieren
  • Fuenf Minuten Am Koeniglichen...

Any Spectator Becomes the Mindreader #512 - Mindreading in reverse. A spectator and unbelievable effect wherein any spectator reads the mindreader's mind. A strictly one-man audience participation mindreading stunt that will leave your audience spellbound.

Three Master Psychic Effects #47 - A rare Nelson manuscript, vanishing from the Nelson Enterprises catalog after issue 6. A trio of mental tests using cards, matches, and dice.

Master Sealed Message Reading...

Mostly conjuring applications. Magic theory.

This is a collection of experience thoughts about performance magic. What is magic? What role does it play in our culture? What does impossible mean today? The theme is being "more than able" in live as well as pretending at the impossible on stage. Each section and page is meant to inspire reflective musing on one's abilities and limitations. Together they provide a mirror in which each magician can view self and chosen magical effects in a different light or perspective. They are not a formula for self-improvement.

Part of this is the notion...

In March 2022 there was a unique gathering of professional magicians in Sydney Australia. Joel Howlett was one of the lecturers on the bill and he discussed performing exciting visual magic that caters to modern audiences who have shortening attention spans.

Participants were invited to take an honest look at the effects they were using before the COVID pandemic and reassess if they might be a little slow-moving for today's audiences. This PDF is a brief outline of the points discussed.

1st edition 2022, PDF 7 pages.

From the preface:

"Tricks with a minimum of apparatus with patter to tie them in to Bible texts." - Harold Sterling

"Easily workable effects which fit into the teaching of a definite Bible text. Every one of these is usable and I heartily recommend this book." - Rev. Gordon W. Mattice

"This book gives material of great value." - John Mulholland

6th edition 1940, PDF 51 pages.

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...

• ... 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...

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...

Aldo Colombini's Contact Colors is a classic. Paul Gordon published two handlings (that Aldo loved) in 1998 in Cause And Effect. Paul recently improved the blockbuster We Have Lift-Off and entitled it, We Have Perfect Lift-Off. Here it is for the first time. It's super easy but so powerful. Two...

A visual mystery with a Sharpie pen.

Imagine this: you casually place the cap of a Sharpie pen on its back end, and with a simple gesture, it vanishes before their eyes.

The twist? In a flash, the cap reappears perfectly recapped on the pen's tip, right where it belongs!

• Easy to perform:...

Five lovely small packet routines involving apples from Stephen Tucker, Per Clausen, and Shiv Duggal.

The last routine plays off the 'Apple' computer angle. With Apple Inc. having made such a meteoric rise, with many having Apple computers or phones, this routine would probably play even better...