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A week before the show, the magician posts a sealed envelope to a member of the audience with explicit instructions that it not be opened before the night of the show, and requests that they should be sure to bring it along with them. On the night, the spectators are seated and the performer states how, "...weeks in advance, I mailed an envelope to a member of the audience here and asked that she bring it with her tonight". She is called up on stage carrying the envelope where she confirms that no one but here has touched it or had access to it, and that it has been sealed the entire time. She is then directed to open up the envelope and take out what is inside.

Magician: "Inside there is a folded up piece of paper, please remove it and read what it says." The spectator does so and reads aloud: 'On Wednesday 15th of July, on page 9 of The Daily Mail, the third word along on the second line will read : DEMAND'

Another member of the audience retrieves a copy of The Daily Mail, the date confirmed, and turned to page 9 where – sure enough – the 3rd word of the second line is 'demand'.

Note: The above effect uses no gimmicks, no stooges and no switches. The magician never once touches the envelope or the newspaper during the performance. Any newspaper can be used, with any part of it being predicted.

The magician presents the spectator with a set of five ESP cards, displaying a circle, a star, a pair of vertical wavy lines, a square and a cross. He explains that ESP stands for Extra Sensory Perception, and that in the early 1950's it was widely believed that these cards could be used to determine ones psychic ability. The magician goes on to describe a popular experiment called the Rhine Test where a participant would be given a card face down and would then proceed to match it up with a set of their own cards, without ever looking at the original. The results were astonishing, with selected partakers getting correct results 80%-90% of the time.

The spectator is then asked to choose three of the five cards and push them forward, face up, on the table. The magician picks up a blank card and, without saying anything, writes something on one side an holds it face down in his hand. The spectator is then instructed to think of two of the chosen images and put his or her index and middle fingers on the selected cards. The magician smiles to himself as he turns his card over revealing that he has drawn the exact same symbols as the spectator selected.

The magician then picks up another blank card and proceeds to write something down on it again. Once more, the spectator is asked to place their finger on one of the two remaining cards, whereby the magician turns his card over showing that he once again guessed correctly.

Note: This is not an elimination process. The symbols the magician writes down will always be identical to the ones the spectator places his/her fingers on.

An envelope is given to a spectator with the request that it never leaves their sight. The magician then removes five business cards, labeled 1-5, from his pocket and lays them face down on the table. The spectator is asked merely to place their finger on top of one of the facedown business cards. Their chosen card is turned over – a three – and the other cards are all shown to be different.

The performer then pulls out a handful of change (can be borrowed) and asks the spectator to choose either heads or tails. The spectator chooses 'heads' and the performer continues, stating that the spectator is going to make a blind choice. He/she is invited to drop the handful of coins onto the table repeatedly. When the coins fall, some land heads side up and some tails. Per turn, the coins that are tails-up are discarded and the dropping is repeated with the remaining heads-side-up coins until there is only one coin left, for example, the 10p.

Finally, a deck of cards is brought out, spread across the table and the spectator is instructed to freely select one (no force). Let's say, the 9 of Spades.

The magician recaps what has just happened. The spectator has freely chosen a number, a coin and a card, all through different means. The spectator is asked to remove the envelope from the beginning and, without the magician touching it, empty the contents onto the table. The spectator does so to find inside the envelope a Polaroid photograph showing a large number three, a 10p coin and the 9 of Spades.

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One of the hottest areas in magic today is mentalism, and one of the major sources for the best mentalism ever published has been out of print for two decades: THE NEW JINX.

The sequel to Ted Annemann's classic Jinx magazine was published from 1962 to 1968 and contains over 300 pages of amazing mentalism. Our new Kaufman and Company edition duplicates our reprint from 1987, with an introduction by Tony Andruzzi, and adds a complete index.

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This book is about an eerie entertainer who specialized in the supernatural. Bill Neff, called "The Master of Many Haunts" brought to his midnight audiences an assortment of zombies, goofy spooks, glamorous ghosts, and other varied and weird spirits. Newspapers proclaimed "Neff's show makes eyes pop, pulses hop, and hearts skip a beat."

Author William V. Rauscher presents an incisive and penetrating look at a complex man who succumbed to his own creation. With a foreword by McCarl Roberts, Pleasant Nightmares is the story of one of the best spook magicians of his time, whose theatrical attraction was entitled "Madhouse of Mystery", a show that guaranteed suspense, shudder, shakes and shivers.

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The Wisdom of Solomon has over 50 effects succinctly written by David Solomon and Jeff Siegfried in a manner similar in style to past Marlo writings. There are over 200 photos to clearly illustrate all sleights, layouts, and procedures. At the beginning of each effect the reader is treated to David's personal reflections in the section aptly titled, "Solomon's Mind."

David Solomon is one of the most prolific thinkers in card magic today. From his earliest days at the table with his friend and mentor, Ed Marlo, to the more recent days of his Saturday Chicago Sessions with Simon Aronson and John Bannon, David has been a consistent source of card magic discussion, planning, creation, and performance.

Jeff Siegfried has been performing magic for over 20 years, and is an educator/writer by trade. He currently performs weekly at three restaurants in the greater Chicago land area, and performs monthly for corporate, and private events. David and Jeff are great friends.

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"During the preparation of this book careful thought was given as to which routines should be included. The tricks are entertaining, the sleights are latent means to an end result. The articulate manner of text and illustration was due to our enthusiasm to thoroughly acclimate the reader with every minute characteristic of each move. If then, you utilize only a few of these items, the purpose of this book will have been fulfilled." - Jim Steranko

Table of Contents...
Chapter One - Fundamentals	Chapter Two - Action Center Reverse
Chapter Three - Positive Card Control	Chapter Four - Lateral Palm
Chapter Five - Multiple Shift	Chapter Six - Card Miscellanea
Chapter Seven - Cues on Cards	Chapter Eight - Quick Trix
Chapter Nine - Trio	Chapter Ten - Aces in Abstraction
Chapter Eleven - Card Eclipse	Chapter Twelve - Dead Man's Hand Finale
Chapter Thirteen - Fantasy Card Routine
Bonus Section: Chapter Fourteen - Concerning Steranko Annotations by Terrence Francisco