Advanced Magic Your Absolute, Quintessential, All You Wanted to Know, Complete Guide

by Gibson, Walter Brown

• ISBN13: 9780883910177
• ISBN10: 0883910179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-15
• Publisher: Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.

Summary

From Merlin to Copperfield, magicians have been baffling crowds for centuries. Now you too can learn tricks that are guaranteed to mesmerise any audience. Including an array of dazzling tricks, and step-by-step illustrations, you will learn everything from simple sleight-of-hand tricks to advanced illusions and deceptions. This guide to the secrets of some of the world's greatest magicians will keep your audience bewitched, baffled and bewildered! Learn how to perform over 100 magic tricks from the man who worked a combined 40 years with all-time greats Houdini, Thurston and Blackstone.

Author Biography

Walter B. Gibson was an American author and professional magician. He wrote more than a hundred books on magic, psychic phenomena, true crime, mysteries, rope knots, yoga, hypnotism, and games and served as a ghost writer for books on magic and spiritualism by Harry Houdini.

Table of Contents

PART 1 Close-Up Magic
Magic, Puzzles, & Magic	1	(11)
Pocket Magic	12	(14)
PART 2 Card Tricks
Card Sleights (Forces, Controls, Key Cards)	26	(18)
Card Tricks	44	(8)
Trick Decks	52	(6)
PART 3 Stage Magic
Effects You Can Make Yourself	58	(11)
Effects you're better off buying	69	(20)
PART 4 Mysticism & Mentalism
Setting The Mood	89	(1)
Keeping Magic In The Mind	89	(1)
History of Mysticism	90	(2)
Background In Mentalism	92	(2)
Mysticism And Mentalism Effects	94	(35)
PART 5 Grand Illusion
Classic Illusions	129	(24)
PART 6 Historical Magic
Historical Magic	153