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... US practitioner of the short story. He is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, and popularized cryptography and secret writing, but is mostly known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. His death is still a mystery occurring early, unexpectedly, and the cause is to this day unknown.

(8th November 1860 - 13th September 1951)

Edward William Barton-Wright was an English entrepreneur specializing in both self-defense training and physical therapy. He is remembered today as one of the first Europeans to both learn and teach Japanese martial arts and as a pioneer of the concept of hybrid martial arts.

He was working as an antimony smelting specialist for the E.H. Hunter Company in Kobe, Japan, where he was exposed and studied martial arts. In 1900, Barton-Wright established the Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture in London.

... for private clients as well as some of the largest corporate clients in the country, including Bell, the Bay, and Compaq to name a few.

Says Ian Quick, "I was ready to show the world my magic, but what I needed was an audience. I began performing part-time on weekends, all the while keeping my day job. Many of my peers saw the success I was suddenly having and began asking me for tips, just as I had asked Elliott a few years before. These were all competent magicians who could perform great shows, but didn't know where to find an audience.

One-and-a-half years into writing the book, when we began editing, I felt I had learned enough from the book and was ready to take the leap and...

Mentalist but secretly magician.

Nobody knows that Zee J. Yan is a magician except those who know.

He only has put out one book yet, but all of his material in the book, Greetings, are easy-to-do routines. No difficult sleights are required yet it allows you to perform simple and direct intimate mentalism with your EDCs. (FYI, EDC stands for Everyday Carry. Things you carry with you everyday.)

(USA: 24th April, 1902 - 1st September 2001)

Inspired c1914 seeing The Great Leon show at Loew's State Theater in New York. Accountant (CPA) in New York City. Amateur magician. Joined the SAM Parent Assembly #1 in 1928 and named its Dean on his 93rd birthday in 1995 when he was still active in magic. During World War II he entertained at canteens and military hospitals.

Invented The Bombay Mystery card trick (1944). Tricks in Hugard's Magic Monthly 1944-53. Wrote The Fine Art of Magic (1948, 341pp; with a 1955 French translation, 2nd edition 2019 with Warren J. Kaps).

Maxwell Murphy is the co-founder of Penguin Magic. He currently lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He spends his time writing, programming, inventing, and sailing. He’s working on a number of projects. The one he's most excited about is SkyDiary. It's a diary that calls you up every day to ask how your day was. Check it out at Skydiary.

... 1932 - 4th February 2020)

At age 10 inspired by and learned from a birthday gift box of tricks and amateur close-up magician since. Dealer (manager of Davenport's branch in Glasgow) since 1955. Son-in-law of George Davenport, having married in 1959 the latter's younger daughter, Jean (born 1937). One of the creative cardmen in the United Kingdom, inventing Collectors (by 1969), Impact, and Cardwarp (1974). Teacher of Gordon Bruce.

Wrote The Devil's Playthings (1969, 61pp), Cardboard Charades (1971, 54pp), Tale Twisters (1972, 12pp), Card Script (1973, 47pp; repr 1975), Some Late Extra Card Tricks (1975, 26pp), A Collection of Card Tricks Using Unprepared Cards and Trigger (1976, 12pp),...

Sean Taylor is an internationally known magician. He has lived and worked professionally in the USA, UK and Australia and is a Gold Star Member of the Inner Magic Circle and full member of the exclusive Psychic Entertainers Association. Sean has performed across more than 15 countries and lectured in 7. Sean's writing is honest, accessible and he is widely known to share only audience tested, fully developed material and not half baked ideas so prevalent in the magic world today. MindStorms was Sean's first success as a publisher but his effects, tricks and props such as Pineapple Surprise, RhineSense Probe, Crazy Man's Marked Deck and Symbology deck are used by working pros in more than 25...

Rupesh Thakur has proven himself to be one of the most influential magicians in the Nepalese magic world today. His work as a master magician has changed the way live Magic entertainment has come to look in Nepal. Specifically, his understanding of illusioneering, combined with his vision of cutting edge science of illusion and imagery, has allowed him to literally redefine illusion as a venerable element in a live platform.

Besides being a magician he also is a professional and well known designer of theatrical magic effects in Nepal. Magicians, illusionists and Magic show TV producers from world over contact him for ideas for putting mega magic into their act. He provides all information,...

At a very young age, at the age of only 14, he began, thanks to his Master Gianluigi Sordellini, a cultural, educational and practical path on the study of card magic, also traveling every year to Spain, to be able to learn directly from the greatest exponents of the world of close up magic.

He is the winner of the Close Up Award “Damaso Fernandez” received at the International Congress of Magic in the city of Tagliacozzo (AQ) in 2019 and many others taken in various congresses in which he also participated as a guest in the Close Up Gala.

Today he is the spearhead of the International Magic University "Damaso Fernandez", and the UMI itself recently took him on a Spanish tour, where...

... Jamesway Poker Deal (1948), and First Finger of Fate (1954, with Freer). 1982 AMA Creative Fellowship.

Edited Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks (3 vols, 1941, 1962, 1980), a classic series; and wrote booklets: The Nullifactor [1954, 8pp], First Call to Cards (1954, 28pp), Magic Mine No.1 (1957, 28pp), and Case for Cards (1958, 22pp). Many tricks in magazines, including in Sphinx (1926), Canadian Magician's Digest (1929), Jinx, Phoenix, New Phoenix, New Tops, Pentagram, Ibidem, Epoptica, and the all-James issue of Arcane #10 (1983). See P. Howard Lyons and Allan Slaight (editors), Stewart James in Print: The First 50 Years (1989), which at 1,025 pages was the then largest page-count of any...

Secretive and a self proclaimed recluse Jesse is first an entertainer and second an author/creator. He has been entertaining people all over Canada since 2007 with his comedy hypnosis show and various other performance mediums. First trained in hypnosis then expanding into other area like mentalism and even a little magic Jesse knows his stuff and ACTUALLY USES IT. Always nuts and not afraid to tell you the honest truth about hypnosis, mentalism, and magic Jesse strives to go above and beyond with each product. A rare find in today's authors.

... Ferri's aka Dennis Barlotta's interest in magic began with a gift from his father, a set of plastic cups and balls purchased from a novelty shop in Times Square. Years later, after military service, he discovered Tannen’s Magic Shop on Broadway and Al Flosso’s. He was drawn to close-up magic. One day he met a man at Tannen’s. He did a version of Slydini’s Coins Through the Table for Dennis. He suggested Dennis purchase The Magic of Slydini by Lewis Ganson, which he immediately did.

Dennis abandoned everything he had learned about magic and started over. He studied Slydini’s routines for one year, on his own; then sought him out for lessons.

His studio was on 341 West 45th...

The artist formerly known as Dr. Zodiac has been entertaining audiences, professionally, since the late 90's.

At the age of seven Scott witnessed his first real magic trick in New Orleans. From that day on, the magic grew inside him. Studying everything from Tarbell to David Blaine's television shows, Scott dreamed of being a "real" magician some day.

His day came when while working for the Illinois State Police's forensics laboratory, Scott decided to take off work and head to a renaissance fair. There he met his future mentor Chris Ivonovich. Chris sparked life back into Scott's magic dreams by performing "real" magical illusions mere inches from his face!

Scott studied under Chris...

... under the sign of Aquarius. His early years were spent in Elmhurst, Illinois (Harlan Tarbell's hometown), a western suburb of Chicago. His interest in magic was sparked by seeing Dr. Tarbell perform in 1950. Soon thereafter, he received his first magic book, Tarbell Course in Magic - Volume 1, on his eleventh birthday. After discovering that Dr. Tarbell had donated his entire course to the local library, Jon spent many hours diligently studying each volume along with other magic books in the library.

Jon joined the Mazda Mystics Club (Juniors) in 1953, a club started by Russell Shaw and his wife in Oak Park, Illinois. Meetings were held in the basement of the Mazda Magic Shop. He...