Geschichte und Biographien großer Zauberkünstler

by Robert Spencer With great pleasure and pride, MAGICO presents Fetsching Magic: The Life and Legacy of Hen Fetsch by Robert Kirkwood Spence. Here is a long overdue testimonial to the untold influence of a gifted Twentieth Centrury magician´s magician, who might well be called "The Father of the Modern Magic Lecture." Pages 206 - Hard Bound

J. Steinmeyer In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, Jim Steinmeyer unveils the secrets behind the most enigmatic performer in the history of stage magic, Chung Ling Soo, the “Marvelous Chinese Conjurer”—a magician whose daring made his contemporary Houdini seem like the boy next door. Soo’s infamous and suspicious onstage death in 1918 mystified his...

Dai Vernon turned the clandestine world of conjuring on its ear with virtuoso sleight-of-hand and a dogged pursuit for perfection. Born in 1894 in Ottawa, the son of a Canadian civil servant, Vernon moved to New York - Manhattan - in 1915, and never looked back. Miracles flowed from his fingertips - effortlessly. The source of his secrets? The underworld and the gamblers,...

The Man of many Mysteries This book allows you a rare opportunity: to look over the shoulder of Eugene Laurant, one of the most popular, polished and successful entertainers of his day. Laurant Man of Many Mysteries is a biography full of show-biz stories, Wild West adventure, and magic. Billed as the "Man of Many Mysteries," Laurant spent almost 50 seasons on tour. His...

by J.C. Cannell World-famous illusionist, master deluder, showman; Harry Houdini (alias of Ehrich Weiss) is one of the most legendary figures of the modern stage, and probably the most controversial and misunderstood magician of all times. So fantastic were his tricks that many thought him to be supernatural, a mystic and an amazing spiritualist Exposing his closely kept...

William V. Rauscher (S.S. Adams) presents an array of past and present unusual personalities in the field of psychic entertainment and private readings. Like a vaudeville show, the performers appear in a series of acts that confuse, confound and perplex their followers, and create ethical issues for laymen, researchers, and magicians. This assemblage is a potpourri of...