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A new approach to the Stewart James classic Miraskill.

Theo Annemann's journal The Jinx, September 1936, was where Miraskill was first published. Subsequently reprinted in various books and magazines over the years, this Stewart James creation still baffles one and all. The years have not dulled the remarkable impact it can have on today's audiences.

Courtskill is a brand-new version of Miraskill. Australian card man Ian Baxter has concocted a totally new version, with some very distinct advantages.

Barely half the deck is used, trimming the performance time considerably, not to mention a surprise approach involving court...

• ... Selection
• Dead & Alive Revised
• Heads Or Tails?
• Mind-Boggling Balloons
• Stamp Stunner!
• Any Number Called For
• Spec Case Set-up
• Triple Book Test
• Hands Free Card Revelation
• Simplicity Add-A-No
• Sound Pressure
• Magnetic Billet Knife
• Last Straw Revisited
• Made To Measure
• Predicta-Sphere
• Odd One Out
• Mind Over Matter
• Billet Ring
• Versatility Hank
• My Signature Trick
• 'Three In One' Centre-Tear
• Peek-A-Boo Deck
• Triple Tactics
• Costa 'Billet Switch' Cup

1st edition 2023, PDF 142 pages.

With this download, you'll receive a comprehensive PDF with tips, and suggestions for the original, the improved, and 2.0 the Swedish Touch, and you'll get three stories. Two in audio format (a longer and a shorter one that are different) and a brief story about Takeshi Hiroshi to be remembered and told.

The stories presented here grew over time and this is more or less how I performed Frozen in Time for years. Here's a short audio clip of what these recordings sound like:

[If the embedded player should not properly work in your browser you can also download the MP3 here.

With these recordings,...

SUPERSTARS-R-US: A great mentalism effect that plays big.

BOOK HIM DANNO! A comedy book test with a twist...

WHERE'S MY DOVE? An ultra-clever mentalism effect...

WHO'S GOT THE SNOW? - A 'just chance' routine with an adult twist.

THE GRAVITY DECK: A close-up or cabaret cracker.

ONE DEAD CELEB: Comedy mentalism with variations.

SEARCHING for ELVIS: A great self-working card trick...

RIP IT UP: A cool newspaper prediction effect...

LOST LUGGAGE: Effects using luggage labels...

and lots more.

No sleights are required, most of these use things you already have...

For the first time in the English language one of the most highly successful magical plays of all time. From the pen of Fu Manchu (David Bamberg) comes Satan's Daughter, a lost treasure of the history of magic, until now unknown in the English-speaking world of magic.

Fu Manchu (David Bamberg) was the son of the great Okito and the sixth generation of magicians, originally from the Netherlands. He toured for decades with one of the finest full-evening magic shows, mostly in Latin America but also in Spain. Fu Manchu wrote and performed several magic plays of which Satan's Daughter is among the...

Poly-graph; where the precision of a Lie Detector meets the artistry of Drawing Duplication.

Poly-graph is an unconventional yet logical fusion of two realms of mentalism - The Lie Detector and Drawing Duplication. Both plots unfold in tandem, with the Lie Detector concluding prior to the Drawing Duplication.

Start your act with the entire audience and end with drawing duplication with one, two, or more people.

Casually put, it is an everyday worker's material, a 100% surefire with no funny or tricky questions. With just an hour's preparation, it provides a solid 8-10 minutes of...

This is the publication where J. B. Rhine coined the term Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) and reported on the results of his experiments at Duke University using the Zener symbol cards (today known as ESP cards) designed by his colleague Karl Zener during the early 1930s. The results Rhine reported were remarkable and suggested that ESP existed.

However, other academic institutes could not replicate the results. There were many problems with the experimental design Dr. Rhine used. The remarkable results he achieved were likely a combination of sensory leakage and outright cheating. One of...

A powerful card routine with 5 climaxes.

"I've had a lot of fun with this. Like a great Scott F. Guinn effect, it has a minimum of moves and a maximum impact. I love the ending in the second version when the selection is revealed. Recommended!" - Victor Brisbin

Scott F. Guinn explains three variations of a card routine with five separate climaxes that will entertain and amaze any audience. In progressively stronger revelations, you prove beyond any doubt that you knew in advance the spectator’s mentally selected time of day and her chosen card.

5-Alarm Clock, the first version...

What was a $5 bargain in 1952 is a bigger bargain today. This valuable product should cost $59 when adjusted for inflation and we are selling it for only $12.

Excerpt from the foreword:

The common element in all three of those effects is the use of a scalloped short card (a special short card that was popularized by Dai Vernon). It is a gimmick that I rarely see used. A few people use a short card nowadays - even fewer use a scalloped short card.

If you're interested in learning three distinct applications of this tool (a pseudo-memory effect, a telepathy effect, and a prediction effect), then this e-book is for you.

Note: If you're only interested in one of the three effects, then you're just better off individually buying that one (as it would be cheaper). But if you're interested...

The title of this manuscript indicates that four classical plots are being covered.

• Classical Quickie transforms a "wrong" card to a "right" one, but the speed and visibility of the methods make it different. It's quick, interesting, and mysterious. You have several methods to choose.
• Doubly Ambitious takes the Ambitious plot out of the humdrum class.
• Double Transposition effects will give you a sense of happy accomplishment.
• Chameleon Queens inevitably intrigue audiences fascinated by repeated transformations.

The manuscript does not ignore the technical side with a set of techniques...

Bend reality, blur perception, and make them question everything - straight from your wallet.

You start off with a quote - A lie is told well, becomes the truth. Next, you display five ESP symbols on a card. The participant chooses one (or so it seems). Moments later, their symbol vanishes. Then comes the shift - subtle, eerie. Something feels off. Soon, all the symbols disappear. The card, held tightly in the spectator's hand, is now blank on both sides. They're left with nothing - except the unsettling question: Did anything ever exist at all?

In here, you'll find two compact handling...

• ... effect based on a simple and unusual principle.
• The Imp and the Teakettle. A novelty to delight both young and old.
• The Leprechaun. Proving that audiences are not as quick as they might be.

Every effect suitable for any audience. With the exception of two pieces of standard apparatus used in one experiment, every item required may be easily and cheaply made up at home.

Raves from the magic press:

"'Hoops, My Dear' is sufficiently interesting to more than repay the investment for the entire book." - Milton A. Bridges

"A book with which I would never part." - Frank Chapman

Early books on magic, such as Modern Magic and Illustrated Magic (1931) stressed mastering the pass as fundamentally necessary to every card handler. As time went on, easier sleights such as the double cut to the break replaced it, rendering it anachronistic. Times change. Recently, a friend was asked to comment on one of today's card experts. Her reply, "Too much shuffling." Modern audiences often don't know what happened, but they sense when it happened (He did something tricky) because of excessive cutting and shuffling. Attention spans are shorter now so effects must...

All you ever need to know about this fascinating subject. A great introduction to this mysterious ability, also known as "Hellstromism" or muscle reading.

Once you know how, objects can be hidden out of your sight. Yet you find them without the use of assistants or confederates. One famous TV mentalist uses "muscle reading" to find his performance payment, which has been hidden somewhere in the audience. (Reportedly, it was once found in a ladies' brassiere!)

While there are other famous works on this subject (among them Robert A. Nelson's seminal Hellstromism and Dariel...