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From 1985-1996 Harris toured extensively (visiting 36 countries), lecturing and teaching his magical inventions.

Ben has written over 40 books on magic (most recently, Silent Running, Mentallica, and A Thought Well Stolen), as well as penning material for Apocalypse, The Magic Circular, Genii, Penthouse, The Skeptical Inquirer and High Times magazines.

He lives with his wife in a sunny corner of the Antipodes and, using a variety of pseudonyms, also writes professionally in other genres including, Alternate Lifestyles and Science Fiction/Adventure.

Michael Weber was the first magician to publish (and to establish in the written record) an elastic thread routine. His matchbox effect, utilizing the then unheard of magic-fibre, appeared in an issue of Genii Magazine. Michael credits his mother with having introduced him to the special thread.

Independently of this, (circa 1985) Finn Jon from Norway truly established the use of the thread within the magic fraternity. Finn is to be credited with the creation of a special application of elastic...

"I highly recommend this to all of you who are interested in learning a devilishly clever approach to TORN & RESTORED CARD" - Danny Orleans (Genii Magazine)

Hoodwink is not designed to replace, or to in any way compete with, the fine crop of "quarter by quarter" restorations that are making the rounds. Instead,...

"A cool and animated levitation of a card or dollar bill... EASY TO MAKE!"

However, it was also a genuine stepping stone in the thought processes that would eventually lead to Enlightenment: The Ultimate Floating Card - which is way superior. So, controversial...

Listed in Bart Whaley’s monumental Who’s Who in Magic, McCarron has also created mental effects for the fraternity, including The Only Good Apple Book Test and Strange Truths.

Aside from earning a living as a lead guitarist...

Billy McComb, Genii magazine columnist, said of this monumental work, "Some of you will make reputations with this!"

1st edition 1988, revised 2015, 98 pages.

History - "Laboratory Conditions" - Bob's first commercial effect - was originally released in 1976 by Frank Pazel. Supplied with the effect were two pieces of plexiglas, rubber bands, some aluminum foil and a specially gimmicked pen. Except for the foil, none of the other items were necessary to accomplish the effect, but Frank felt that the effect wouldn't sell unless it came with props.

The late Ed Mishell gave the effect a very favorable review in Genii magazine - but, then again, Ed gave favorable reviews to just about everything. That, together with the fact that nobody in the magic world...

". . . I have found most uses of billets that I've seen to be painful exercises in self-deception on the part of the performer, as to what the audience finds convincing or entertaining. But when I saw Bob Cassidy do his billet routine for an audience of more than a thousand, those silly bits of paper were reduced to virtual non-entities. By the time the routine reached its conclusion he was on stage, standing back-to-back with a spectator, engaged in what was apparently a full scale drawing duplication - with no billets or envelopes anywhere in sight or awareness." - Jamie Ian Swiss, Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine, January 2005

如果你或你認識的任何人試圖在未經許可的情況下複製本書,那麼貧困和不幸將會找到你和你的家人

1st edition 2017, 6th edition with 8 addendums 2020, PDF 136 pages.

You probably have most of these magazines sitting at home collecting dust and you wonder how...

(This idea was originally developed by Clayton Rawson in the 1930s and published in the Sphinx. Later Pete Biro unearthed it in a column in an old Genii magazine from the 80's.)

1st edition 2021, PDF + videos 3 min.

These are the lecture notes for a lecture Charlie Miller gave at Magic Inc. in 1967. He offers great insight into the art of magic, presentation, routining and audience management. He also teaches several great tricks.

Also included is a six page essay by Roberto Giobbi titled "Charlie Miller's Wisdom". (This essay originally appeared in two installments within my column "The Genii Session" in Genii - The Conjuror's Magazine, May and July 2005. It appears here in a slightly revised form and in agreement with Richard Kaufman and his Genii Corporation.)

Contents:

• Foreword
• General Remarks
• Cashing a Check (Trick)
• Miser's Dream or Money Catching ...

Note: If you email us your three absolute favorite articles found in any magic magazine or journal before you purchase this ebook, you will get this ebook for free. We will need from you for each article the title of the article, the author, the journal title, year, month, volume, issue, page, and a short explanation why you like that article so much.

From the introduction:

just how to turn the effect into a veritable miracle. The instructions are replete with 38 lucid diagrams, showing just how every move is accomplished. If you have ever performed the Sympathetic Silk Trick, or if you ever intend to use it, you must have Proudlock's version." - Floyd Thayer in Genii magazine

"...a logical, simple routine, easily mastered. [T]his booklet receives first recommendation." - Lloyd E. Jones review in Genii magazine

"Without question, this effect would be regarded by any class of audience as Real Magic." - Brunel White

1st edition 1936; PDF 37 pages.

Memoir is Fifty Years of Magic (3 vols: 1980, 1981, 1983, 213+254+237pp), informally known from their subtitles as "The Miracles Trilogy". Illustrator of his own books as well as those by others. Wrote over 200 articles for various magazines including Abra, Genii, and Linking Ring.

1. ...
   • ... - May & June
   • Magic World - June
   • Magic Key - June
   • The Billboard
85. News and Notes
85. The Chinese Mystery - G. C. Bowen
86. The Evolution of the Flags - Wilford Hutchinson
86. To Soften the Hands - Maxwell Chamberlain
86. magic note re: Klein
87. The "Ejef" Flag Vanish - Edward J. Faehnle
87. Russell Genii Coin Trick - H. J. Russell
87. Los Angeles Society of Magicians
87. Golden Gate Assembly S.A.M. - Robert J. Stull
87. magic note re: Rev. C. H. Woolston
87. magic note re: Yendes
90. Bulletin Liners - For Sale, Wanted and Exchange Column

93. Magical Bulletin - Volume VI, Number 9 - September, 1918 - 12...

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• CHAPTER I: PHANTINISM
• A Mind and A Magazine
• Mental News Beat
• A Mind ... A Book ... And A Word
• Incredible Insight #1
• CHAPTER II: MIRACRYPTO
• Miracrypto Advanced
• CHAPTER III: MENTAL CARD GEMS
• Psychorama
• The Moving Hand Writes
• Divino
• The Eyes of the Prophet
• A Date with Destiny
• Another Version
• CHAPTER IV: MENTAL POTPOURRI ...

1. ... Maskelyne
8. The Magic Circle - club news
9. A Good Cigarette Vanish - effect by Stanley Norton
9. North Western Society of Magicians - club news
10. Selected Secrets - column by De Vega
    • The Simplex Pigeon Production
10. Stand for a Billiard Ball - Dorian
11. Reviews
    • The Sphinx - January 1919 magazine
    • The Magi - February 1919 magazine
    • The Magician - magazine
    • The Magical Record - magazine
    • The Magic Circular - March 1919 magazine
11. Programmes - show reviews
    • Maskelyne's Theatre of Mystery
12. The Merry Silkworm - effect by Ernest E. Noakes
13. Trickey's Card Miracle - effect
14. New...

1. ...Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
104. Book Notes
     • Frank Lane's Ideas, No. 4 - Frank Lane
     • Peppy Picture Stunts - H C Bjorklund
     • You'd be Surprised - R. Parrish & J. Green
     • Further Magic for You - Leeds Magical Society
     • Patter - Sid Lorraine
107. Amid the Magazines
     • The Magic Circular
     • The Magi
     • The Sphinx
     • Genii
     • Jinx
     • The Linking Ring
     • Tops
     • Frank Lane's Cheap Talk
     • Magic Quarterly
     • The Magician
     • Literary Selections
     • The Journal
     • Le Magicien
     • Le Journal de la Prestidigitation
108. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

109. Vol. 27, Number 179 October-November, 1938 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
109. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • Writing Conventionally
     • The Best Trick
     • Ventriloquism
     • 'Legerdebrain' ...