_EF This book could well be called The Unmasking of Harry Houdini. Was Houdini, as the long-standing myth begs us to believe, truly the world’s greatest magician? Did he communicate a secret message to his wife through a famous spirit medium? Today there exists a century’s worth of books, movies and television documentaries that contribute …
_EF As a performer and inventor of magic and illusions, Servais Le Roy had no peer. Harry Houdini praised him, Howard Thurston feared him and Harry Kellar called him the most finished artist he had ever seen. Mrs. Le Roy, known around the world as Talma: The Queen of Coins, was often compared to that …
_EF Only a dedicated magic buff could have so thoroughly researched and written a book recounting John Calvert’s breath-taking illusions onstage, his incredible daredevil feats, and his many real-life escapes from death. In this compelling narrative and with three hundred photographs, William V. Rauscher describes the magic career that led to record-breaking engagements on Broadway …
The Magic Magazine was a mass market monthly magic publication that was started by New York publisher Joseph Kardwell in 1974. There were 26 issues published with the first in December 1974 and the final one in September 1977. The magazine dealt with it’s fair share of publication issues and had four different publishers during …