The average magician focuses on tricks, moves and method. The really good ones know that acting is an even more important aspect of a magic performance, regardless of if you are standing on a stage or close-up next to a cocktail table.

Richard Tenace is one of those performers who urges all magicians to take acting classes, to develop a character or persona, to script your effects, to treat our audience with respect, to go beyond fooling somebody to achieving astonishment and entertainment.

From the dust jacket:

"In the first book of its kind, Dunninger, noted authority on psychic research, shows how to produce thirty different psychical manifestations - enough for a five-hour séance."

Psychologist lecture on creating rapport

HOW TO PRODUCE YOUR OWN THEATER SHOW

A practical guide for performing magicians.

This guidebook picks up where Theatrical Magic left off. This report guides readers through a step by step process to produce a full evening theater show - from script, to venue negotiation, to the closing curtain.

Electronics is a world seldom visited by most magicians or mentalists, and yet top-flight performers regularly use electronics in their acts to create miracles that fool not just audiences but also others in the business. In this first volume of “Electronics for Magicians” I introduce a cast of electronic components and show that they’re simple to understand. I then show you how to combine them into useful modules, and finally I present several full projects.

Scrolls, marvelous, wonderful and secret things were written upon them. Now, a new kind of Scroll.

Scrolls is about magic. Scrolls is about story telling. Scrolls is about The Author's efforts, thoughts and journeys into the world of Bizarre Magic.

To the author, Bizarre Magic is about story telling. It's about using a combination of magic and stories to produce a feeling.

Contained in these pages are some of Tim's routines, articles and obsessions.

Subjects covered include: how to mix clowning and magic, creating laughter, working with children, comedy warm-ups, audience participation techniques, magical fun with kids, covering mistakes, clown stunts, silly close-up gags, running gags, walk around clowning, birthday party stunts, clown magic on stage, and more. The book is loaded with hundreds of tried and tested comedy effects with dozens of complete clown magic skits and routines.

A book on Pickpocketing by a leading expert