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Clever paper-folding stories have always been popular with magicians. Such well-known magicians as Gene Anderson, Jay Marshall, Karrell Fox, Tommy Windsor and others have all featured paper-folding stories in their acts.

Devin Knight has always loved clever paper-folding effects. In this ebook, he has compiled four of his favorite paper-folding effects. He learned all four of these when he was a child and has used them for his entire performing career.

"Even though I'm a mentalist, I am a sucker for origami and puzzle effects. Devin has compiled a great collection of storytelling magic, using nothing more than...

There is a full performance video below (thanks to my friend for recording it), but here is a complete written description as well (along with the conditions):

Imagine:

The magician asks the spectator for...

This ebook will take the student of magic on a magical journey to the other side of the glass, providing for an extensive study in magic theory as well as application --- all from the perspective of the classic Card through Window effect.

As a beginner, intermediate or advance student, you’ll learn the general framework for implementing your vision and the specific conceptual tools that you need to construct, refine and customize any magic effect (trick or illusion) to fit who you are as a performer.

This ebook explains the overall dynamics of magic: misdirection, audience management,...

A teach-in video for card magicians who are searching for reputation-building commercial tricks that are fast, visual, and mind-blowing for a lay audience, yet will also blow away fellow magicians. Full performance video followed by a detailed explanation of every trick. 8 tricks in total of which 5 can be performed with a borrowed deck.

ALL BACKS: Ideally performed with a borrowed bicycle 'seconds' deck, but any deck can be used. All cards change to double backs, except for the chosen card.

OUT OF THIS WORLD - OUTDONE! The ultimate impromptu version of this classic using a borrowed deck,...

Performed by Randy Wakeman before random, live audiences . . . then explained and taught in full detail.

Over the 1950s, 1960's, and through the 1970's a brand of bold and direct close-up magic was developed in Chicago, Illinois. These effects were known for simplicity, clarity, and strength of effect, and the powerful response they elicited. Chicago magical legends Don Alan, "Heba Haba Al" Andrucci, "Senator" Clarke Crandall, Frank Everhart, Jack Murray, Johnny Paul, James Patrick Ryan, and Matt Schulien forged their reputations with these effects, and now you can too.

While these quick, direct, simple, baffling effects...

Borrow a pen, write with it, and then casually remove your hand, while the pen remains standing unsupported.

This is best performed as an off-beat effect where folks do not expect a trick, but the magic just happens. The pen is unprepared. The notebook hides the gimmick which is for all practical purposes invisible.

Bonus routine is a rubber band ring linking effect. A borrowed ring is linked into two rubber bands. This can be performed impromptu.

1st edition 2018, length 40 min

Years ago Robert E. Neale came up with his method on how the make an impossible gift out of a borrowed banknote using three strips and a few folds. Now it's time to bring this idea to the next level by using four strips! This makes the braided bill look even more impossible then before!

1. You could use almost any borrowed banknote or paper. (It does not work with Euros.)
2. Totaly impromptu.
3. No glue or hidden cuts. Make this impossible object right under the nose of the audience. Even if they look very close, they can't rebuild it.

A marked coin appears in an ungimmicked lollipop. This can also be done with a corner of a playing card, bills, and other small flat objects. You will also learn an impromptu version. The gimmick can be made in a few minutes.

1st edition 2020, video length 34 min.

Here are 25 tricks with ESP cards. Some are impromptu (marked below with a single star), some require a bit of preparation (marked below with two stars), and a few require more involved preparation such as gimmicked cards (marked below with three stars).

Most are suitable for jumbo ESP cards as well as regular poker or bridge sized cards. And most use only a single deck of ESP cards.

1st edition 1978; original 29 pages; PDF 32 pages.

4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Author's Preface
7. Foreword
8. Guessing Gordon*
9. Psycho-Symbol*
10. A Five Star Miracle**
11. The Magical Match-Maker**
12. Mental Simplicity*** ...

This ebook explains in detail the true, tried and tested card control methods (basic moves & gaffs) that professional magicians use in real performance situations --- "the real stuff, not the fluff".

While performing for the big money and a regular audience, professionals don’t leave much to chance. The working conditions, whether it’s an inside or outside environment, may cause sweaty hands (too hot & humid), stiff fingers (too cold) or dry hands (overly warm). These conditions are anticipated by simplifying a routine for real-world applications / preventions, such as the use of gaff...

Aldo Colombini and Cameron Francis, two friends with a common passion: Card Magic. This is the type of magic that can be worked anytime, anyplace.

Contents:

• YET (Aldo Colombini): A card is selected and it is seen to be the only different colored card. It disappears and reappears face up in the middle of the deck.
• SIMPLY AMAZING (Cameron Francis): This is a fun, off-beat four-Ace assembly.
• FOLLOWERS (Aldo Colombini): Follow the Leader theme but the entire packet follows each time.
• S.P.C.A. (Cameron Francis): An almost self-working small packet "card at number".
• NUMBERED (Aldo Colombini):...

The routines use subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand to produce entertaining card effects that anyone can do. More important, no gimmicks, and no set-ups whatsoever. Grab an ordinary, even borrowed deck of cards and amaze your spectators with incredible card effects.

CONTENTS:

• PERSU-ACE-IVE (J.K. Hartman): The four Aces, placed face down in the middle of the deck, appear together and face up.
• A TRANSCENDANT TRANSPOSITION (Tom Daugherty): A transposition of two selected cards with a killer ending.
• AMBITIOUS 1-2-3-4 (Roy Walton): An ambitious card routine...

The Magician That Became The Mentalist, is a collection of workable material and ideas that I have created over the past few years. I share with you some of my most used, original routines that I use in the real world. I also share some of my thoughts on mentalism and magic. This includes the importance of performance, dual reality, simplicity, and much more. In this ebook you'll find useful effects and advice, whether you are a magician, mentalist, or in between! I even share a new principle never before seen in mentalism or magic. A principle I named the "WatchStop" principle that can be adapted...

Entertaining tricks and amusements with coins.

From the introduction:

Effect: A spectator is asked to choose any card (no force) from a freely shuffled, completely regular deck of cards. The card may be signed if so desired. The card is then lost back into the deck. The magician places the entire deck inside the card case and, holding the deck with one hand, begins to concentrate. Very slowly, one card begins to emerge from the center of the cased deck. Little...

More wonderful and baffling routines by the creative mind of Larry Becker.

1st edition 1981; original 66 pages; PDF 52 pages.

6. Monte Inferno
9. Ultimate Matrix
12. Flip-Flop Flush
15. Bucking The Odds
18. The Stress Test & The Black Spot
22. King's Row
24. Heads Or Tails
27. Money Monte
29. The Little Black Book
33. Headliner
35. Mind Blaster-Stage Version
37. Edmund E.S.P. Tester
40. Dynamation
42. Impromptu Espitome
44. The Conversion Principle

The routines use subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand to produce entertaining card effects that anyone can do. More important, no gimmicks, and no set-ups whatsoever. Grab an ordinary, even borrowed deck of cards and amaze your spectators with incredible card effects.

CONTENTS:

• VALIDATION (Aldo Colombini): You place a face-down card between two face-up Jacks. A card is selected and it turns out to be the prediction you placed between the two Jacks.
• TAKEAWAY (Karl Fulves): An original idea that will fool laymen and magicians badly. Three cards disappear from a packet...

You will not only learn how to float balls but many other objects, including balloons, boxes, bulbs, blocks, eggs, kites, puppets, canes, cards, microphones, telephones, heads, hats, hands, horns, ...

• Introduction
• Publisher’s Note
• The Basic Routine
• Publisher’s Suggestions
• Ball Suspension From Rope
• The Ashra Ball Routine
• Ball On Book Suspension
• Instant No Gimmick Method
• Clinging Ball
• Another Magnet Idea
• Floating Balloon
• "No Hole" Miracle Ball
• Color-Changing Silk Interlude
• The Miracle Seance
• Miracle Writing
• A Production
• The Vanishing Miracle Ball
• A New Miracle Ball Method ...

After seeing several effects from this ebook, author and collector Doug Edwards said:

"The stuff you do with a shuffled deck and one or two key cards borders on the miraculous!"

2. TALONS OF THE HAWK: Two volunteers each think of a card from a group of ten. The packets are lost in the deck by the volunteers themselves. The performer...

The routines use subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand to produce entertaining card effects that anyone can do. More important, no gimmicks, and no set-ups whatsoever. Grab an ordinary, even borrowed deck of cards and amaze your spectators with incredible card effects.

CONTENTS:

• FAST FINDING (André Robert): A spectator cuts half of the deck and finds a card, which in turn finds a previously selected card.
• COINCI-FACE (Aldo Colombini): From a shuffled packet a spectator selects two cards. After a special shuffle (?) two cards appear reversed in the middle:...

Volume XXI (September 1963 - April 1965) - 6 Issues, Blanca López, managing editor

48 pages

1. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume XXI, Number 1 - September 1963 - 8 pages
1. Peek-A-Ball - Milbourne Christopher's Column
   • Peek-A-Ball
   • Platform Presentation
2. Lyle-Lac Levities - Art Lyle
   • It's No Secret - Easy Money?
   • Lowell Lore from Local Lad
2. Editorial Notes - Blanca Lopez
3. Sid Lorraine's Variations-Presentation-Chatter for Harry G. Franke's "My Uncle the Inventor"
   • Part I
     • Penny to Dime
     • Brema's Nickels to Dimes
     • Grant Flat Money Roller ...

Author and collector Doug Edwards said:

"I know a good trick when I see one, and KNOW-ALL NEALE is a good trick! It's impromptu and direct. And I like A COUNT, A BILL as well. The divination of the three digits comes as a complete surprise. Two real winners."

Tarbell Course contributor Nick Conticello returns with a new selection of close-up magic designed to be performed for small groups of friends or acquaintances.

1. Know-All Neale: 3 coin divination with fourth coin kicker

2. A Count, A Bill: Based on "It's the Principle " (Bob Longe, Sept. 2001 Linking Ring) with bill used...

In this ebook you will learn 8 stunning, practical pieces of card magic, and a series of sleights so sneaky they'll immediately make it into your repertoire.

The Castle Sleights: A false cut, force, peek and displacement that all look the same. Can you tell them apart?

Dr Daly's Last Meal: An impromptu sandwich routine gets a shot in the arm from the good Doctor.

Dark Room: A there and back again colour changing deck routine for two. Just what colour was the deck again?

Polygraph: A thought of card leads the spectator to wonder whether they are lying or telling the truth. Like your...

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. Arranging a Programme

   Sleight of Hand with Coins

6. The Ordinary Palm
6. The Inner Thumb Palm
6. The Outer Thumb Palm
6. Thumb and First Finger Palm
6. The Standing Palm
6. The Finger Palm
6. The Inner Finger Palm
7. The Outer Finger Palm
7. The Back and Front Finger Palm
7. Single Handed Vanish
8. Double Handed Vanish
8. The "Throw" Vanish
9. The Coin Roll
9. The Change

   Tricks with Coins

9. The "Impossible" Coin Vanish
10. The Impromptu Alchemist
11. The Travelling Coins
14. The Miser's Dream
16. The Note and the Lemon
17. The Coin and Envelopes

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.