William W. Larsen

Musical Mindreading - A spectator selects one of twelve songs, without revealing it to anyone else - and the medium (seated at the piano or CD player) is somehow able to play that very selection. Most musical mindreading acts have required long study. This can be learned in less than fifteen minutes. Little or no expense. An excellent, apparently impromptu item for the home, club or stage.

Distant Card Reading - A number...

Entertain your pitch with magic
Interspersed throughout the comedy pitch are honest-to-goodness magic effects that you likely already own. In this revised edition, you are given several examples that will give you additional ideas. There's no need to go out and buy new tricks.

This lecture is different
Not a magic show in the strict sense, this is a humorous act in itself, which is how you present it to potential clients. This talk is just the ticket for corporate...

Entertain your talk with magic: Your audience will not only be informed, but entertained with magic effects that you likely already have, or modestly priced items easily obtained from most any dealer. This newly revised edition also includes three effects recommended by Larsen, that you would previously have had to buy separately.

This lecture is in demand: Not a magic show...

Aside from the author's sage and practical advice, garnered from hundreds of shows for youngsters, you get twelve entertaining routines using standard equipment you likely already own. Now you, too, can crack this lucrative field and beat out the local competition. Included are tricks using toys, animals, rings, coins, handkerchiefs, silks, etc. Most of the described effects include full patter.

Best of all, this edition has been newly revised and updated with performance suggestions and...

You'd expect to pay a king's ransom for the original, single broadside sheet manuscript. Luckily, Magic World has reissued this hard to find manuscript in a revised, easy-to-read digital format. Unlike the original, the individual effects now even have titles, making it easier than ever before...

Whether you want to haunt a house, perform a parlor seance, or entertain a private audience with a series of ghostly mysteries, this book shows you how to do it. Long out of print, this limited edition manuscript is now available to a new generation of house haunters, spirit mediums and practitioners of bizarre magick. Use these spine-chilling effects to scare the yell out of your victims. If you're a storyteller, use one or more of these macabre stunts to accentuate a horror story.

Use an effect or two to spice up your existing act....

The material in this ebook was chosen for its entertainment value, its suitability for small audiences, and to ensure that the methods are new and novel. Not a rehash of old content, this is magic that your audiences will enjoy as much as you will enjoy performing it.

You get:

The Magic Mail - The magician forgets to stamp a letter. A spectator chooses a denomination from among 16 choices and holds the...

Don't confuse this with the old "two person" comedy mindreading act. This hilarious routine can be performed by you, alone, without assistants, stage hands or stooges. Using a crystal ball, a jumbo electric light bulb, or even a swirly-painted bowling ball, you cause a laugh riot by apparently answering questions which have been merely "thought of" by your audience. There's no mystery to it. All you need is this clever...

Host your own entertaining séance or year-round haunted house with these frightfully spooky stunts.

Not just for Halloween, you'll be the life of the party any time with more than a devil's dozen effects and stunts that take place around the séance table or darkened room. They won't break the (blood) bank, either.

Newly revised, with over 20 pages of added content, including new methods, attractions and ideas to make yours the most talked-about event in your city or town. Don't just perform magic . . . live it in your own house of spooks and ghosts.

Here's a partial look at the contents: ...

1. Thayer's Magical Bulletin - Volume 13, Number 1 - June, 1948 - 16 pages
1. cover photo - Charles Kirkham
3. Inside the Cabinet - Bill Larsen, Jr.
3. Pipe Lines - Bill Larsen, Jr.
4. Suggested Routines - Edw. W. Myers
4. Why Doesn't Someone ...? - Bill Larsen, Jr.
5. Interesting Combinations - Bowman and Clark
5. So You Want to Play Casuals - Dale Williams
6. Be Careful What You Say! - Pat Fitzgerald
6. Whispers - Bascom Jones, Jr.
7. Old Timer Recalls - Jerome Isaacs
7. Put Your Act to Work - Bill Larsen, Jr.
8. Talk for Tricks
   • Patter for Multiplying Golf Balls - Pat Fitzgerald
   • Patter for Mutilated Parasol...

Here's an entertaining, 25- to 60-minute lecture that you, the magician or mentalist, can present on the topic of scams and cons. And it's a money-maker.

Become an Expert on Cons and Swindles...
Or just talk like one. This is a new field for most magicians and mentalists, allowing you to give your lecture to civic groups, security seminars, government agencies, corporations -- anywhere people gather. And these organizations have deep pockets, too, able to pay you well for your time.

Fabled Bunco Games of History...
Now become practical, effective tricks in the magician's hands, each...

From the authors of The L. W. Card Mysteries comes this great ebook of effects for psychic entertainers that will leave audiences thinking that they have just witnessed genuine thought stealing!

You get:

• Psychic Vision - An ingenious method of answering a single question.
• The Quick or the Dead - Perhaps the best method ever for performing this great billet test. Put your thinking cap on and you'll find many uses for this, aside from the original premise.
• From a Shuffled Pack - A great test feature. ...

Just think!

You'll learn how to make two selected cards turn over in the pack without the use of skill and no false moves of any sort; to make a selected card vanish from the hands of the spectator and be found elsewhere; to make two cards change places - the positions of the cards being seen up to the moment of the change;...

372 pages

1. Genii - Volume 61, Number 1 - November 1997 - 76 pages
1. Cover - Jack Kodell
5. Contents
11. The Genii Speaks - Erika Larsen
14. Letters
    • Exposure Blues - John Holveck
    • Pete C. Matsuka
    • Hand it to You - Bob Loomis
    • An Ex"swain"ation - James Swain
    • Attention Readers!
15. Guide to Advertisers
18. A Word From Our Publisher - Irene Larsen
    • Greetings, Friends - poem - Steve Bryant
22. Genii News - Magic News - compiled by Erika Larsen
    • Round & About ...

1024 pages Each issue starts with page number one - therefore, each page has an issue number and a page number.

1. Genii - Volume 60, Number 1 - November 1996 - 92 pages
1. Cover - Joel Hodgson
5. Contents
11. The Genii Speaks - Erika Larsen
16. Letters
    • Anniversary Waltz - Stanley Blumenthal
    • Richard Cohn
    • Anniversary Faults - Eugene Poinc
    • Plans for the Future - Molly Meyer
    • Wherever - Eugene Burger
    • T.M.W.K.T.M. - Max Maven
    • Artist Currently Known As - Hamlet Gervorkian
    • Sitting on a Barbed Wire...

1028 pages

1. Genii - Volume 59, Number 1 - November 1995 - 80 pages
1. Cover - Bob Markwood's Perfect Birthday Party?
5. Contents
9. The Genii Speaks - Erika Larsen
12. Letters
    • Isn't Life Wonderful? - Roger Thompson
    • Puttin' on the Ritz - Mike Rogers
    • Get Back - Tom Zell
    • Trend of Truth - Bruce Meyers
    • Monumental - Peter D. Blanchard
    • Incidental - Ed Warren
13. Guide to Advertisers
14. A Word From Our Publisher - Irene Larsen
18. Genii News - Magic News - compiled by Erika Larsen
    • "Two" of a Kind ...

944 pages

1. Genii - Volume 58, Number 1 - November 1994 - 68 pages
1. Cover - NBC's "World's Greatest Magic"
5. Contents
9. The Genii Speaks - Erika Larsen
10. Letters Department
    • Pat Hennessy
    • Nathan Jenkins
    • Al Portwood
    • Erika Larsen
11. A Word From Our Publisher - Irene Larsen
11. Genii Guide to Advertisers
14. Genii News - Magic News - compiled by Erika Larsen
    • Credit Card Carney
    • Impressive Numbers
    • Gathering Magic
    • Library of Congress
    • More Vegas
    • Thanks for the Memories
    ...

844 pages

1. Genii - Volume 57, Number 1 - November 1993 - 68 pages
1. Cover - Patrick Culliton and T.L. Williams Conjure Up the Spirit of Houdini
5. In This Issue - contents
20. The Genii Speaks - Erika Larsen
21. Houdini - A Special Issue - Patrick Culliton and T.L. Williams
    21. Houdini, A Magician for the Ages - Patrick Culliton
    23. Outline - Society Sketch - by Harry Houdini
    24. Bahl Yahn and the Strong Man - by Harry Houdini
    26. Manny - Patrick Culliton
    27. Flight and Magic - Harry Houdini
    29. Buried Alive...

816 pages

1. Genii - Volume 56, Number 1 - November 1992 - 76 pages
1. Cover - Theo Annemann
5. In This Issue - contents
22. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
23. Annemann
    23. Vamp Till Ready - Bob Weill
    24. Early Annemann and How He Thought - Robert Parrish
    25. Bill Larsen, Sr. on Ted Annemann
    26. The Annemann Story - Bob Weill
    26. Annemann's Foibles
        26. The Story of The Fox & The Goobers
        26. The Story of The Missing Marksman
        27. The Story of Wheels That Turn
        27. The...

856 pages

1. Genii - Volume 55, Number 1 - November 1991 - 76 pages
1. Cover - Doc Eason
5. In This Issue - contents
25. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
26. Doc Eason Feature - The Rocky Mountain Magic of Doc Eason
    26. My First Visit to The Tower - Michael Ammar
    27. Doc Eason Interviewed by Eric Mead
    28. The Tower Magic Bar
    29. Have Card Trick ... Will Travel - Doc Eason
    31. Jamy Ian Swiss on: Magic Bar
        • The Legend Lives
        • The Texture of the Weave
    32. Some Words about Doc from Ray Mertz and Karl Norman
    33. Mertz's...