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Al Mann - a bibliography

50 MIRACLES WITH THE 5-STAR MIRACLE DECK FOR THE

MENTALIST

1985 - "50 MIRACLES WITH THE 5-STAR MIRACLE DECK

FOR THE MENTALIST". As with all of Al Mann's works, every

aspect of mentalism is incorperated in this Manuscript. From

Prediction Mentalism to E.S.P. mentalism.

include:

THE CLASSIC EFFECT

PREPARING THE 5-STAR MIRACLE DECK

A HISTORY

TRIMMED CARDS

STABBED!

IN MINIATURE

CONTACT

NON-CONTACT

COUNTING

HEADLINES

POKER

POINT BLANK, AND MUCH MORE

101 Psychic Tests

Ungimmicked bucket placed over your head, yet you still and can

name playing cards placed on top of bucket while on your head!

ddyment

Typewritten Text


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Do the standard blindfold effects using a metal bucket over your

head . People stand beside you and hold up fingers and yet you tell

them how many. Fingers are placed beside the bucket, NOT

BELOW IT! Super fooler! While blindfolded thread 15 threads thru

a needle while they watch! Learn the secrets of vest turning,

causing a chalice to break by thought, various ways of making a

ghost appear including little known methods that sold for more

than the book! Fingertips Ghost: Sit in a dim room with the sitters,

they see ghosts come from your hands and float in the air! NO

hidden gimmicks, no assistants, no cloth, all explained in the book

CAUSE FLASHES OF LIGHT TO SHOOT FROM YOUR EYES, WITHOUT ELECTRONIC

DEVICES! Learn how to create beautiful and safe mid air explosions in the seance room. Take a

huge knife and hold an apple with great force you hit the apple which gets cut in half, but the

psychic's hand is unharmed! Make messages appear on your arm in REAL BLOOD, YES YOU

READ THAT RIGHT, IN YOUR REAL BLOOD. Al Mann reveals this little known secret. Inside

secrets of Stigmata, show a piece of cardboard and wash hands to show nothing there, place

your hands on the cardboard and they leave imprints in a bloody red! Learn how to hypnotize

Rabbits, Chickens, frogs, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, yes even a lobster! Secrets revealed for the

first time that appear to show your psychic powers. Strangulation Test! Tie a rope around your

neck and a dozen strong mean try to chock you to death, yet fail! Bend steel bars with your

hand, break solid bricks with your bare hands. Anyone can do this once you know the insider

secrets. Drive Nails into wood with your bare hand! Then extract them with your fingertips! A

great psychic publicity feat, AL shows you how to actually pull a BUS or Truck with your teeth!

You can do this too! It's easier than you think! A CAR is driven over the psychic without

INJURY! Psychic places his finger on his forehead and the stronger man can't lift it off! The

Orange Test: Show a bunch of oranges and have someone sign there name on one with a magic

marker, all the other oranges along with the signed one go in a bag. Without looking, you reach

into the bag and remove the signed orange!

Acidus

Acidus - A method for thought reading. Acidus is the key to

varied miracles. It can be used in a design duplication effect or in a

question answering act, or the living and dead test.This is book

No.100 of a limited edition of 200 books.

Acidus 2


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Acidus Plus

ACIDUS PLUS; A METHOD FOR THOUGHT-READING. In this

manuscript AL MANN has not only reworked his original billet

work, but has also INCLUDED OTHER TECHNIQUES that have

been sent to him by other MENTALISTS. The result is the

DEFINATIVE WORK IN BILLET MENTALISM!

MILLARD LONGMAN'S ACIDUS NOVUS

AL MANN'S THE AZONIC FORCE

THE HUGHES MOVE

FROM THE THIRTEEN

BOB HAINES' SHADES OF BERT RESSE

THE AZONIC RENT

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF ACIDUS PLUS

AL MANN'S THE SECRET OF ABONUTICHUS.

AL BAKER MANUSCRIPT

Ted Annemann writing in Jinx No 19 alludes to an obscure Al

Baker manuscript that Annemann had seen when he was 17 years

of age, at which time the manuscript was already old. The

manuscript contained some of the first writings by a well

experienced and well informed magician. It was called “Al Baker’s

Mental Effects”. This was a remarkable collection of ideas and

fabulous routines aimed especially at the mentalist/magician.

Although it featured Al Baker’s Billet Reading Extraordinary, each

effect in the book was a feature item.

AL BAKER’S BILLET READING EXTRAORDINARY

THE BILLET TEST

THE LIVING AND DEAD TEST

AL BAKER’S TWO PERSON SLATE TEST

THE PACK THAT CUTS ITSELF

MINDREADING CARD TRICK


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The Alpha Files

This spiral bound book was published in 1995 and is 26 pages

long. It is in good condition. I quote from the cover: “The

astonishing secrets of Psychic metal bending as performed by

Steve Shaw (Banacheck) and Richard Osterlind. Most of the

secrets appear in print for the first time.

The Test of Time

Matter In Orbit

The Bends, and Melt Down by Steve Shaw

The Spoon Bend and The Remote Psychic Power by Richard

Osterlind.

Plus the account of James Randi’s psychic sting operation call

Project Alpha which shook the world of the parapsychologists.

The Apodosis

THE APODOSIS (NE PLUS ULTRA READING METHOD).

Included are effects using THE CENTER TEAR METHOD!

ANNEMANN'S "NE PLUS ULTRA READING METHOD

NOTHING MORE BEYOND

EXPOSURES,

AL BAKER'S MASTERWORK

THE IMPROVISITOR

FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX

THE UMBRELLA MOVE

THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR, AND MUCH MUCH MORE

ARCA Mystery Box

The mentalist calls attention to a small cardboard box that is

sealed with rubber bands and sitting on the table. He asks anyone

to call out a number and a second person to call out a word.

Mentalist picks up the box and removes the rubber band and lid.

You DO NOT STICK YOUR HAND INSIDE THE BOX NOR DO

YOU TOUCH THE SLIPS. Any person can remove the slips and

open them. They contain the exact word and number just called

out! Very, Very, Strong! Any thought desired by the mentalist will

appear inside he sealed and ungimmicked box. The message can

even be inside a sealed envelope! Baffling beyond words. The

position of any playing card called by the audience can be

predicted inside a sealed deck! The name of a lady-love called out plus a red rose can be found

inside the box! There is NO limit to number of miracles you can do with this Arca works almost

automatically. The spectator can unknowingly pull off the gaff. 13 effects are described

including book tests,


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HEADLINE PREDICTION

PEGASUS PAGE

TELEPORT A TORN BILL

NO SLEIGHT OF HAND OR BILLET SWITCHING INVOLVED. All the work is nautural and

made openly. Even if they burn your hands with their eyes nothing will be revealed.

Axel Hellstrom

The Life and works of Axel Hellstrom. Contents include:

Hellstrom's history

Axel Hellstrom's mnemonic system

other performers

Hellstrom & Houdini & the S.A.M.

The Bert Reese Docimasy

The fabulous exploits of Bert

Reese-Wonder Worker. Many

insights and secrets of his work

NEVER BEFORE REVEALED. His

routine. His Life. His billet technique

is a classic that has never been

bettered. It stands leagues high over

any other billet presentation yet

conceived. With the information

contained in this book, the reader can

duplicate the Bert Reese act and

create AMAZEMENT LIKE NEVER

BEFORE!Bert Reese earned a high fee and associated with the elite

of the world.

THE CONTENTS:

Bert Reese Fortune Teller

Reese and Houdini

Reese and Aleister Crowley

Reese and Edison

Reese Billet technique in Detail


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Reese in Action

The umbrella move in Action

The pellet switch -4 versions

Reese and the center tear

Plus much more.

The Black Box

The Black Box. Dunninger's Billet Box Pad, with Modern Method

By Richard Osterlind, This book is devoted to this secret gimmick

in the form of a writing pad, that Dunninger originated and has

comlpete directions for making your own of this neat little device

and uses by Richard Osterlind. Copyright 1990.

The Book of Life

With this secret you are able to give powers to members of the

audience!

Some of the effects possible:

One person in the audience secretly draws a simple design of his

choice on a slate. Anything! While another member of the

audience draws a design which is a duplicate of the first design!

NOW HEAR this! Mentalist doesn't know the design until both

slates are shown to the audience. This is the first time you see

them too! No preshow work, no carbons, no coaching. You really

don't know what designs the people are drawing til shown to you

and the audience.

The Answer: A question is written in the book of life by a spectator. Another spectator is

given the power to be a SEER by the performer. The 2nd person correctly answers the first

person's question! YET THE REST OF THE AUDIENCE INCLUDING THE MENTALIST

DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE ORIGINAL QUESTION WAS!

The book also contains bonus material on giving private readings. Effects that will cause the

audience to wonder about you and your strange powers.

Brainbusters '83

Nothing Hidden

Blind Enchantment

En Boite

The Sealed Ootw


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The Framed Ootw

The Black Hole

The Death Void

The castaway Coffin

Breakthrough

From the Forward by Al Mann: The

true art of Mentalism is not the

illusion of the stage that enchants the

eye but the illusion created in the

mind that enchants the thought. The

Mentalist's greatest gimmick is

hidden in the inner recesses of his

mind and therefore invisible and

unexposable. This [manuscript]

expounds the illusive, seldom

exploited and little known branch of

magic where the spectator

unknowingly executes the 'move' that creates the miracle to the

full credit of the magician! The "Headline Prediction" is indeed a

headline getter for the magician and mentalist. It is a haunting

experience for the beholders. The magician pierces the time barrier

by predicting the future in writing in a sealed letter that is never

again touched by the magician or any one in his company after the

letter is mailed or delivered! ... This is the highest form of Magic!

Along with his "Break Through" effect, this manuscript also

contains material on the "Walter's Letter" effect which he learned

from Walter Gibson in 1976.

Carpusgraphy

It deals with a little known technique

called Carpusgraphy. The technique

has been sought after for years. The

end results were spawned by Acidus.

Its all done with ONE hand and is

motionless. Here is one effect that can

be done with this technique. You are

in a restaurant or standing on a

corner, anywhere with your friends.

You wait til you hear something


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unusual, such as My niece Nancy was

killed in a car wreck, or my sister had

a baby last night, they named him John, etc. Now you proceed to

scare your friends with your TERRIBLE power!You break in and

say "Strange that you should say that! I had a terrible dream last

night and saw a fatal car crash. These things happen to me all the

time. I heard a name, it was Nancy. What a concidence?? I got out

of bed and wrote that a girl named Nancy was killed in a car

crash. I wrote in on this card. You remove a folded billet from you

pocket. "I sealed it with glue" You hand the glued shut billet to

your friend. He will have some trouble opening it. Written inside

is NANCY KILLED IN CAR CRASH. You may consider things

like this to be in bad taste, but imagine the effect it will have on the

people you show it to. If you want to appear to be a psychic and

do impromtu miracles that appear to be terrible powers that will

make people afraid of you then you want this book. Not part of

any series such as the Arcana or Zodiac series of Al Mann.

Cero-Mentics

CERO-MENTICS, A STUDY IN THOUGHT PRINTS.

MASTIC MYSTERIES

THE RMS PRINCIPLE

THE DELUXE JUPITER GIMMICK

THE GEMINI SLATE

DONOVON'S DUST

CERO-MENTICS

THOUGHT PRINTS

THE FELLOW TRAVELLER

THE MILLION DOLLAR GIMMICK

THE UNSEEN SPECTER

THE INVERTED MARK

THE MEDIUMS TABLET...PLUS A BONUS... THE BOOK FROM SUMER! which combines

the elements of a BOOKS TEST WITH THOUGHT PRINTS!

Challenges


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Classified

CLASSIFIED. TOP SECRET MENTALISM!" Included in this

manuscript are effects that AL MANN himself calls "SPIRITUAL

MENTALISM". MIND READING, FUTURE PREDICTION, ESP,

TELEPATHY, BOOK TESTS AND MUCH MORE are all included

in this BRILLIANT manuscript.

OMAR'S PROGNOSIS

OUTDONE-OUTDID

TOP SECRET II

ENCHANTMENT

A *BONUS* A DISCUSSION ON "LORANT", MEANING

LONG RANGE TELEPATHY

Codex X

A treasure house of miracles!

Effect 1 - Performer gives out a sealed envelope which contains

a prediction. The envelope is ungimmicked and contains only one

straight plain language prediction. Performer then has anyone in

the audience choose a book from a shelf of books which contains a

number of books by different authors and titles. The spectator

chooses only one book!( he does not choose 5 books and lays

down 3, for example.) Performer calls attention to the other books

on the shelf and the fact that they are of different titles and

authors. May be as many as 9 books! Spectator is next instructed

to open the book secretly to any page and to choose any

paragraph. Performer without knowing to what page the

spectator has opened the book, tells him what he is reading, word

for word and the entire paragraph! For the climax, the prediction

envelope is opened and the prediction read. It predicted the title

and author of the book plus one of the words chosen by the

spectator! The prediction may be printed in a newspaper weeks

before! Gentlemen, the book that the spectator chooses can be read

through by anyone and nothing found amiss. The book may be

one written by a famous person dealing in phlosophy! There are

no 2 pages alike in the main text of the book. There are no pictures

or photos in the book. Just text. Cards, dice orcounters are not

used. Only the books are used. The spectator does not write

anything down and does not have to talk. This is a one-man effect.

It can be done at any time without previous or pre-show


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preparation. The performer does not know to what page the book has been opened yet he can

tell what is being read, word for word! Uncanny!

Effect 2 - Spectator takes a book into another room and secretly opens it to any page and says

absolutely nothing, just chooses any paragraph or chapter and the performer tells him what he

is reading without knowing the page turned to! The effect can be done over the telephone from

another city!

Effect 3 - Three persons are each given one of three books. They secretly and indivually

choose a page and choose a word and do not write the page down or tell anyone what page

each has indivually chosen. Performer reveals all 3 words. There are no short or crimped pages

in the book. Spectator has an absolute free choice of any page!

Effect 4 - Spectator is given a free choice of one of three books and has a free choice of any

page in the book. Performer predicts the word chosen in a sealed envelope!

Excellent for stage or private office. The purchaser will recieve 3 books professionally bound in

buckram cloth with gold lettering, plus one book of instructions. Only a limited number of sets

have been printed. Each book will be seal-stamped, numbered and signed.

The Damned Thing

1980

The Effect: A spectator is given a book and is told to secretly

choose any page and to pick any paragraph. He is then told to

concentrate intently on the first four or five words and to spell

each word silently to himself. The Mentalist reveals each word

correctly and then the entire paragraph! NOTE: the performer

does not know the page, the paragraph chosen or the words.

Performer divines the words only after the spectator has secretly

spelled each word to himself. No forcing. Complete with Al’s

original instructions and a hardbound book by Ambrose Bierce.

Death Watch

A TREATISE ON MENTAL EFFECTS WITH WATCHES. A

classic in the AL MANN canon, DEATH WATCH is the final

word on "TIME MENTALISM" as it has been called. The effects

range from Psychic Mentalism to Prediction Mentalism. As

always with AL MANN, the techinques are fresh and the ideas

are original. Some of them can be done over the RADIO.

Especially Death Watch, which AL MANN did over the radio.

You get 18 Brain Busters with watches. Make your own Mental

Watches is worth the price of the book: A person unknowinly sets

a watch that tells the time you have predicted. The perfect force

How to Make your own Mental Watch Sleights with watches

Dunninger's Miracle, tell the time set on 3 watches Tell the time

on a watch with your fingers A cemented Clock face matches the time on a watch set by the


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audience A watch is allowed to run down, a spectator sets another watch to the same time!

Performer predicts the time to be set on 3 watches! Learn how to move the hands on watches

by psychic powers ala geller and banacheck Breaking a crystal and moving hands while no

one is near the watch A voyage in a Time Machine effect Tell the time by looking at the back of

a watch. Seeing thru solid matter.THIS MANUSCRIPT INCLUDES:

DEATH WATCH

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN INEXPENSIVE MENTAL WATCH

THE TURN OVER SLEIGHT

DUNNIGER'S MIRACLE (A BRILLIANT DUNNINGER EFFECT)

A TOUCH OF WONDER

THE FACE IN CEMENT

WHEN TIME STOOD STILL

IMPACT OF TIME

CHRONO-KINESIS

THE PSYCHIC BULLET

RETURN FROM TOMORROW

THE DATE DILEMNA

CROSSING THE DATE LINE

THE CALENDAR WATCH DILEMNA

PAR_OP_TICKS

PSYCHOMETRICAL RADIATIONS

THE MINDREADING CLOCK

POTPOURRI.

The Dhu Pit

Effect: Show TWO envelopes truely sealed. They can have wax

seals if you wish. There are NO SLITS or windows in the

envelopes. Yet anything named by the audience appears written

on a prediction inside the envelope. NO CARBONS OR

IMPRESSION DEVICES ARE USED All Material is left with the

audience. The envelopes are NOT switched and remain in sight

at all times. 4 Methods are given. Bonus: Includes the Secret of

Heather Mead and reveals a new method for reading messages

sealed in envelopes. Rare Bonus For JASON MICHAELS Fans:

This book contains a section at the back with reproductions of

the clippings from various newspapers when Csicop tried to

expose Jason Michaels in 1987 to the national media. These

clippings were giving to Al Mann by me for inclusion in this book. The clippings are seldom

seen and this is the only Al Mann book that any reference to the Jason Michaels exposure

appears in.

The Delphian Oracle

A volunteer consults The Delphian Oracle, and secretly writes a

question of his or her choice. The psychic, who stands across the

room from the person, answers the question.


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DiploMental Pouch

The Deluxe Model of the DiploMental Pouch by Al Mann

Exclusives 1983. The most advanced trick wallet in magicdom.

This can do anything that a Himber wallet can do plus much

more. It is leagues ahead of any other trick wallet and looks just

like a simple three fold wallet. The "pouch" now comes with a

zippered pocket, can turn itself inside out undetected by the

viewers and in so doing can create miracles without end. This

Deluxe Model is only 3/8 inch thick when folded. It is made of

very thin but durable Bovidae leather and was custom crafted for

Al Mann Exclusives. It has five panels finished on both sides and

five pockets, three pieces of thin cardboard and two zippers.

Altogether you have 15 thicknesses of leather in the folded

Model. Comes with a six page Manuscript containing notes on construction, comments, ideas

and four Al Mann effects.

The Donovon Papers

The Donovan Papers: The latest in billet work. Yes! You may find

it hard to believe but here is another treatise devoted entirely to

more exclusive secrets of the art of billet reading. These are

ultra-modern and ultra new secrets never in print before. The

Contents:

The Donovan Papers. A killer effect with folded billets that you

hold in full sight on the tips of your fingers. No palming or

switching. You do not tear the billet or even open it. You just hold

it and read minds! Done under all conditions!

The Os of Oxylus. With this secret you can read minds as easily

as reading handwriting! Can you imagine showing a folded billet

to be opaque and then sealing it into an opaque envelope and still

getting the drop on the spectator's secret thought?!

Syd"s Stunner. Another fabulous billet test done with a folded card. Card never out of sight.

The Pyramids Eye. An ultra-new center tear principle done in a radically new way. Your

hands are shown empty at all times. There is nothing to hide.

Pyramid Novus. Here is a test with folded cards you can do blindfolded. The folded cards

are never opened, yet the Mentalist divines the secret messages! 14 pages loaded with secrets,

techniques and 19 illustrations!


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Double Incidence

From AL MANN AND RICHARD OSTERLIND, 2 OF THE

MOST BRILLIANT MINDS IN MENTAL MAGIC COMES THIS

MANUSCRIPT FROM THE AME MAJOR ARCANA SERIES:

"DOUBLE INCIDENCE, THE POWER OF THE ALL-SEEING

EYE". BOTH AL MANN AND RICHARD OSTERLIND

contribute to this manuscript and the result is ONE OF THE BEST

AND MOST EFFECTIVE MANUSCRIPTS THAT AL MANN

EVER PRODUCED! The late JOSEPH DUNNINGER is credited

with having employed a little-known optical principle for the

reading of sealed messages! As a message rested on a table, its

secretly written messages remained totaly invisible to the

spectators BUT in full sight to the Mentalist who was standing by

the table at the exact same distance as the spectators! Special optical materials were used

which were not readily available to the average performer. In DOUBLE INCIDENCE, TWO

METHODS ARE GIVEN THAT WILL DUPLICATE THE EFFECT!

"DI-1" - RICHARD OSTERLIND GIVES HIS FABULOUS METHOD WHEREBY

TRANSPARENT ENVELOPES ARE USED. THESE ENVELOPES ARE TRANSPARENT

ONLY TO THE MENTALIST WHILE TOTALLY OPAQUE TO THE ONLOOKER!

"D1-2" - AL MANN GIVES YOU A METHOD BY WHICH A MESSAGE WRITTEN ON AN

OPAQUE CARD AND FOLDED TWICE, IS MADE TO TURN ITSELF INSIDE OUT,

UNKNOWN TO THE SPECTATORS AND IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES SO THAT THE

SECRET MESSAGE IS THEN ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE FOLDED CARD, BUT AGAIN,

THE MESSAGE IS ONLY VISABLE TO THE MENTALIST WHILE IT REMAINS TOTALLY

OCCULTED TO THE ONLOOKERS!

Dunninger's Act

HERE IT IS !THE ACT THAT SHOOK THE WORLD!THIS IS

THE ACT THAT LAUNCHED DUNNINGER AS A

THOUGHT-READER.THIS IS THE ACT WORD BY WORD.

HIS UNIQUE QUESTION ANSWERING FEAT

THE TRI-CYCLE EXPERIMENT

HIS BRAIN-BUSTING PRESENTATION OF THE 16 DIGIT

EFFECT

1983

The Dunninger mystic series A

This is the first book of the Dunninger´s serie (A-F), and it has a

set of "Selected Sealed Message Reading Tests". In fact, the


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Dunninger Mystic Series was written by Dunninger and Al Mann

published this book because Mrs. Dunninger authorized him. So,

the original contents of the Dunninger Mystic Series has been

preserved in its original concept as was dictated by Dunninger.

From "Foreword": "I was asked by Mrs. Dunninger to update the

mns. So I have added my own comments under the caption of

NOTES. These valuable manuscripts by Dunninger were realesed

very exclusively and hardly advertised so that today many well

read magicians have never heard of them." Finally, this

manuscript has ten Impression Methods

The Dunninger mystic series B

Crystal gazing always meets with approval and the ladies will be

the Seer's most interested boosters no matter if presented in a

theater, a club or home. The following routines, dictated from

Dunninger will be found to be practical in every way. Strange as

it may seem, the more simple the modus operandi the more

mystifying the results... SEER READS MINDS LIKE AN OPEN

BOOK AND ASTOUNDS SKEPTICAL AUDIENCE...READS

NAMES AND GIVES VALUABLE ADVICE IN LOVE, BUSINESS

AND PERSONAL MATTERS...(just like that goof-ball on the sci-fi

channel) Build crowds in your area as they start to wonder how

these modern miracles are accomplished Contains a complete and

simplified routine from opening patter to modus operandi with

the "Sphere of a Million Hidden Mysteries" (the Crystal Ball--which you don't have to

have--spirits could be "talking" with you, or any other media)...also includes "A Sensational

Test" to be done at the middle of the show...an unusual dramatic interlude...also includes hints

and tricks for drama and mystery to be added to your act...DO NOT READ THIS THROUGH

AND THEN PASS IT UP AS TOO SIMPLE. Experience is the greatest of teachers and the best

in the field do not use all the tricky apparatus that could go out in the most inopportune

time...the addendum (The Art of Scrying) explains how to experiement with it--to see if you're

one of the rare few who have a gift.

The Dunninger mystic series C

THIS BOOK CONTAIN SOME RARE PUBLICITY STUNTS

FROM THIS OLD MASTER MENTALIST JOSEPH DUNNINGER

(IF IT'S GOOD FOR THE AMAZING KRESKIN,IMAGINE

WHAT THAT CAN DO FOR YOU !?)


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The Dunninger mystic series D

The Dunninger mystic series E

The Dunninger mystic series F

This manuscript was dictated by Dunninger himself. He gives us

a panoramic view of the many "miracles" performed by the

Mentalist and Psychic...the effect "What Price Phenomena" was a

favorite with Charles Foster...the card tricks written here were the

same card effects that Dunninger used to baffle his audiences and

was one of his "stepping stones" to stardom. Includes:

A Psychic Digit Test (the parlor version of the 16-digit test)

A Baffler (the Quick and the Dead Test)

What Price Phenomena!! (a very impressive ritual with

spiritualistic patter)

Psychic Divination (a code)

Mental Location (Cards)

The Spirits Write (Cards and a Slate)

Unique! (Billet Test and Envelope)

A Wrinkle (for the one-ahead mindreading act)

It's Been Done (the folding billet switch)

Psychic Thought Transmission (effect with dictionaries)

Messenger Appears On An Unprepared Slate Brought To Psychic By Sitter

Psychic Card Prediction

Psychic Slate Test

Psychical Location (with cards)

Mediumistic Phenomena (Spirit of Ding Dong; Spirit Form Materialization; Table Levitation;

The Medium Rises; Spirit Lights)


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Eff Oes

This 1982 treatise gives the mentalist, as AL MANN himself

states, "...MANY MEANS OF SECRET PROPULSION BY

WHICH HE CAN MAKE OBJECTS FLY AT WILL!

Perhaps the most BAFFLING AND MYSTIFYING EFFECTS

EVER DEVELOPED BY AL MANN!A MUST FOR ANY ONE

INTERESTED IN MENTALISM OR PSYCHIC PHENOMENA OF

ANY KIND! "EFF-OES" includes:

IMPROMPTU

THE LOFTY MISSIUE

CATAPULTS

MEDUSA'S BOOK

THE SELF CUTTING DECK

THE SACRED DANCE OF THE VASES

THE PALATINE AFFAIR

THE INVISIBLE FORCE

PRINCE THEBB

TIME GONE WILD

DISCOBOLUS (SECRET MECHANISMS)

THE JUMPING SPOON

THE CASCADING DOMINOES

THE SPIRITS RING A BELL

THE EXPANDING BEER CANS

IDEO-MOTION (MOTOR ACTIVITY CAUSED BY AN IDEA)

THE KEY

THE MYSTIC DOOR

THE PEN OF DR. FAUST

THE PSYCHIC MARBLE

THE BLOB

THE OLMEC SPHERE

IDEO-SIGHT

THE PSYCHIC TOOTH PICK

SLADE'S FLYING CHAIR

WIND FROM JAVA

A SPECIAL BONUS! THE ALBORAK (A FABULOUS BOOK TEST).

Elta

THIS BOOK CONTAINS ROUTINES BY TED LESLEY , TONI

FORSTER , TONI BINARELLI AND A DESCRIPTION OF A

LECTURE TOUR WITH AL MANN


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European Lecture Tour Notes

This account covers Al Mann's 1984 European Lecture Tour and

includes secrets and ideas learned from Europe's best and

brightest along the way (Ted Lesley, Neil Somerville, Tony

Binarelli, Lucky Lutz, and more). In this Lecture, AL MANN

outlines THE PERFECT MENTAL SHOW FROM THE OPENER

TO THE "GRAND FINALE". Included is A MINDREADING

EFFECT, AN AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION EFFECT, A DESIGN

DUPLICATING EFFECT, A MENTAL CARD TRICK, AND A

BRILLANT PSYCHIC TEST.

EFFECTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

THE MAG-EYE MOVE

THE CLIP SLATE

THE JUPITER GIMMICK

THE MOUNDS OF ISHTAR

THE OPENER AND THE CLOSING EFFECT

A SMALL REFINEMENT OF THE "MAG-EYE MOVE".

The Foster Account

THE FOSTER ACCOUNT- An investigation of the methods used

by Charles Foster, "The Salem Seer". Packed with routines and set

pieces that will enhance any séance.

Foster's Manifesto (Foster's Ground Rules for Séances)

Difficult Questions (Solutions to Q&A Problems)

My Brother's Keeper (Routine, climaxing in name / word

appearing in 'blood' on medium's arm)

A Number of Spirits (Billets, ballots and pellets)

The Initialled Mystery (Study of L&D Test)

The Medium's Envelope Switch (Switch Technique)

Foster's Billet Technique (More on Billets)

Foster's Book Tests

Invisible Messages (Invisible Ink Methods)

The Four O'Clock Incident

This one discloses in complete detail the greatest billet you'll ever

use, the "Squiffer Billet"...Would you believe a billet that opens

out fully to reveal the hidden message and then closes up again

into a small wad at your command?...no tearing or difficult


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moves that bother all magicians who won't do certain tricks for

fear of getting caught trying to open a billet and it looks like a

folded up piece of paper like it's supposed to...no problems on

your side, just sheer Mental Magic. Plus, A BASKET OF

BOOKS--from a large basket of many books the audience chooses

one. Afer a nice book test for the audience, the title of this book is

found sealed in an envelope tacked to the ceiling above you (Is it

possible to "stack" a group of books that are in a pile in a basket?--In a word, Yes!)

The Guilded Quill

This is the Book The Gilded Quill, by Al Mann and is also #X in

the AME Major Arcana Series, Instructions for making your own

self inking swami gimmick, that will be ready to perform with at

any time and is so small that it clips onto your thumb nail, show

specialty long writer gimmicks, an alternate gimmick using your

own ring, a thumb tip method of writting, Shows the Twain

Double Billet Pen - a very inexpensive and nice method for

making a Billet Pen with a double load and very easy to obtain

and use and make - available from your local office supply store

for about a buck - cool... Very useable and a wonderful reference,

in depth, ingenious methods primarily for mentalist, only a very

small number of Al Mann's books were ever released, Copyright

1993.

The Glass Box

A glass see-through box which is locked and sealed and which contains several folded pieces of

paper (3), is given to the committee chairman to hold until the day of the show. For the climax

of the show the Mentalist calls for the box. This is displayed to the audience and the folded

papers inside the box are clearly seen by all. The box is unsealed and unlocked and anyone

from the audience is told to take out the papers and read them. These prove to be predictions

of events that have just happened and can be verified by the newspapers. In essence, this is a

Headline Prediction stunt. It is obvious to the audience that the Mentalist never sticks his hand

into the box after it is sealed and the Mentalist never touches the papers until they are verified!

The box may be examined and can be left with the audience as a gift, as it is an inexpensive

plexiglass box! PLEASE - READ THE EFFECT AGAIN! IT´S INCREDIBLE The principle that

involve this effect is as devilish as clever. You will receive three pages where Al Mann describe

all of the necesary to build and perform this miracle.

The "H" Factor

THE WALLETS

TECHNIQUE

THE SECRET THRUST

A HISTORY


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RICHARD HIMBER'S BILLFOOLED

PAGE ONE

THE COINS FROM THE POCKET

LIFE FROM SPACE

THE NAME IN THE VAULT

ONE MESSAGE

UNKNOWN FORCES

HOMER

THE NOESIS OF NYX

ONE HUNDRED CLAMS

INSTANT MINDREADING

THE MOUNDS OF ASHTORETH

THE ROYAL ALBUM

The Headless Horseman

Back in 1986 I fooled Al Mann badly with my driving a Car with

covered with Cardboard and newspaper taped over the complete

windshield. He wrote about this on page 9 of The fabulous feats

of Jason Michaels. At that time he mentioned nobody knew my

secret, which was correct. Many years later he wrote the book the

Headless Horseman. IN it he stated that many top performers of

all old knew the secret of blindfolding cars and driving them

although to his knowledge no one had actually done it. Al forgot

that in his own book 7 years earlier he gave me credit for actually

pulling this off. I never told Al my secret. However he did devise

two methods that were remarkably close to my method. Method

One, Involves using black water paint and having all the

windows painted black (it will wash off later). You are blindfolded and get in the car with all

the windows painted. Yet you drive the car several blocks. At the end everything can once

again be examined. Method Two: I love this presentation, although the method isn't as clever

as my newspaper taped over the windshield. You agree to do a blindfolded drive and are

blindfolded using the None So Blind method or any other blindfold. They lead you to the

car.HOWEVER YOU ARE UNAWARE, That the cardboard sun shade is over the windshild.

You proceed to drive the car anyway despite the cardboard sunshade is still in place. I love

this idea for presentation and tip my hat to Al Mann for coming up with idea. Of course the

press will report you drove with cardboard over the windshield. Actually the method I used

was a combination of both methods that Al explains in this book. The proper blindfold drive

can get you worldwide publicity. When I performed as Jason Michaels, my driving a car

blindfolded with cardboard, got me arrested and the story was covered worldwide. AP picked

it up and the story appeared in thousands of newspapers. Al Mann covered and reprinted

many of the articles in the book he did about me. The Feats of Jason Michaels. Look At the

Worldwide Publicity I Got doing this, look closely and you'll see AP after the articles showing

that AP sent the story worldwide. Warning! You can duplicate (or closely duplicate) the effect

I did. Even though a few dozen people bought the book, neither Al or myself at that time

knew anyone else who actually had the nerve to do this. Its one thing to read a method, its

another to do it.


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Al recommended doing this stuff at a fair ground. I did the trick on a public highway! That is

why I got arrested and all the great publicity! The method is dangerous. In all my years I've

only taught my secret to two other mentalist. Neither one had the nerve to actually try it.

Please realize the methods that Al Mann writes about are dangerous. You could possibly be

involved a car accident or even kill yourself. I still occasionally do my newspaper over the

windshield drive, but it is dangeous. In addition to the original Al Mann manuscript the High

bidder will receive a manuscript from me describing in detail how to do my Newspaper over

the Windshield drive. Remember you are fully blindfolded and newspaper is taped over the

side windows from top to bottom and the front windshield. The paper goes all the way to

both edges and ALL the way to the top! Reporters can sit in the front and back seat as you

drive. They won't see where they are going and will be scared to death! No kidding. You will

be lucky to get one in the car with you. This proves no cheating and they can see you do

nothing and there is no way you can see! Look at my publicity again and realize you can do

this if you have the nerve and daring!

In the past I've been offered up to a thousand dollars for this secret but refused. Like I said I

even refused to tell Al Mann so he had to devise his own methods. The lucky bidder will be

taught my secret. I have only shared this infomation with two other people.I'll even tell you

how to ensure you are arrested so this becomes big news. Yes I confessed I made sure I would

be arrested. Hey its a traffic violation, not a criminal act. I'll tell you what I did to get it thrown

out of court and not lose my license. This information is priceless to the pyshic shooting for

super stardom.USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! I am not responsible for what you do with the

information! Remember you get both the Al Mann Headless Horseman, plus my private

manuscript giving the real inside dope on Covered Windshieds.

The Heralds

This is AL MANN's 1980 stunning treatise on

PARAPSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIC MEDIUMS, GHOSTS, and

SEANCES.

INCLUDED IN THIS MANUSCRIPT IS:

THE CENTAURS

MOVING FURNITURE

FLOATING HANDS

ELONGATIONS

THE SPIRIT RAPS

THE READINGS

GRAPHOLOGY

CARD READINGS

THE MEANING OF 52 CARDS

THE MASTER READ

THE HAND OF ADRIAN

THE SPECTRAL BEND (BY FRANK PARIS)

THE AME SPOON BEND

THE SPOON BENDING ACT.


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The Hidden Scroll

The Hidden Scroll - Plus LA Pelle's Pen and Bonus How to Move

A Mountain, by Al Mann and is also An ULTRA EXCLUSIVE

RELEASE # 6, which are some of his best releases, An excellent

way to provide a prediction that has been recorded before the

show-or so it seems- a very nice method and a alternate ending,

La Pelle's Pen introduces a Swami type writer that can be

attached to your lapel, felt pen type, And How to Move A

Mountain- A great Illusion-a cool method, Very useable and a

wonderful reference, in depth, ingenious methods primarily for

mentalist. Copyright 1995

The High Domain

A method for the Private Reader. 1985 AME release. In this

manuscript Al Mann takes you step by step through his own

reading method. Al used this time and time again in "real world"

situations and it is possibly the most amazing reading method

ever to see print. Al combines an incredibly devious billet read to

discover the two questions of the client and also describes his

cold reading system using Tree Readings. Unlike some of Al's

manuscripts the methods in high domain are tried and trusted

with every detail covered. A further billet reading method is

described which allows the psychic to read the contents of a file

card even though it is folded and secured by a bulldog clip.

Finally Al describes a method for allowing your client to feel the

psychic energy that flows from your hands.

HIGH DOMAIN

IN DETAIL

GRAPHOLOGY

GEMEL'S MESSAGES

THE TREE READINGS

EXORCISM, HOW TO REMOVE THOSE NEGATIVE VIBES FROM THE SITTER!

THE SHUTTERED TRELLIS

The Houdini Force Bible

The HOUDINI BIBLE is the GREATEST FORCE BOOK ever

produced. What looks more innocent than a bible? Produced in

very limited quantity by Al Mann in 1978 this book is very RARE.

A replica of the bible Houdini (hence its name) had made in the

early 1900's to expose mediums.


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The Incredible Dr. Stanley Jaks

written by Al and Jaks’s close friend, Gene Grant, Phantini the

Mentalist. included is an explanation of Dr. Jaks’ most famous

effect: "The Holograph Homolgy", or the duplication of a

spectator’s signature, upside down and backwards….while

blindfolded. Also explained is Jaks’s stage presentation for the

Brain Wave Deck, a presentation originally devised by Burling

Hull. There is a short discussion of Billet Knives and how Jaks

used one in his “Incredible Prediction.”

The Incredible Feats of Jason Michaels

Of the latter day Wonder Workers, Jason Michaels stands unique.

He predicts the future by writing down his thoughts and then

have them read and notarized and signed by a dignitary 30 days

before they happen. He levitate while facing the camaras. He

makes himself invisible. Jason Michaels has catapulted from

obscurity to star billing and world fame in only a few months.

This book contains priceless secrets for today's Miracle Workers.

SEVERAL METHODS TO LEVITATE that, to our knowledge

appear IN PRINT FOR THE FIRST TIME.

CARD EFFECTS AS DONE OVER THE RADIO for the mass

media.

THE TRUE SECRET OF INVISIBILITY.

Key Bending.

How to MAKE REAL PREDICTIONS.

The Blindfold Drive.

Plus Uri Geller's latest world shaking effect. Plus much more.

Index X

This is the book Index-X, By Al Mann, A cross reference covering

10 years of AME releases 1974-1984, Extremely RARE, A

wonderful reference, only a very small quantity of Al Mann's

Books were ever published


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Inner Space Odyssey

The Odyssey Envelopes – preparation and use.

Transpositions. Metamorphosis effect illustrating principle of

the Odyssey Envelopes.

Teleportation!

The Q&A Act. VERY clever method making steals obsolete. All

that is needed are the Odyssey Envelopes and an audience ready

to be stunned.

A modification on the envelope for use in Private Readings

and for very close-up situations.

The $100 Caper.

TELESIS. A challenge sealed envelope divination. The

envelope “has an invisible window through which only the

Mentalist can see!”

Misc notes

The Invisible Men

Magicians have been making themselves invisible since the dawn

of time. Present day Magicians are using the same principles as

were used by the ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Magicians.

Making yourself invisible is comparable, publicity wise, with

walking on water or levitating. You only have to do it once and

get noted for it. You must make sure it lands on the right ears and

that it gets in print and becomes part of your life story. Al Mann

lets you in on the secrets of invisibility. "It's no devilry. It's a

process, sane and intelligent!" Al covers some different methods

of the greats--Prince Thebb, Bill Neff, Dunninger, etc. and how

they were able to become translucent, transparent and then

vanish before audiences even though they could still hear their

voices and see the microphone! Also includes:

"The Bizarre Metamorphosis" where the Mentalist finishes his show, raises his hand to wave

and becomes motionless. Two assistants come from backstage and remove the performer, who

has changed into a lifesize cardboard photo of himself!

"Prayer Shawls! and Coconuts?" by Prince Thebb (Bizarre Mentalism)

"A Levitation"

"KA The Astral Double"

"The Diving Bell Mystery"


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"OB (Out of Body)--Divination as an astral projection/out of body test!

"A Visit To The Raven's Keep" Anthony Raven on Tony Shiels and his "Invisibility/Astral

Double" effects

"Dracula's Mirror"--where you convince someone that you're part Vampire and that your

image vanishes from mirrors--and it does before their very eyes!

Karaism-A \ Paul Kara Act

Karisam: Secret Gimmick transmits the information to the

performer on stage. Long Distance Telepathy: Sealed Questions

are answered before they reach the stage! How can it

Be?:Questions are answered that haven't been written

International: Questions are answered that are WRITTEN in a

different language. Questions are answered that are not handed

in, but sealed in envelopes held by the audience Questions are

answered that are sealed in ENVELOPES LEFT AT HOME! A

question is answered for a person who writes only his intials on a

slip of paper. The mentalist reveals the intials and answers the

unwritten question! Questions that are sealed in a safe are

answered! MANY MANY other things are detailed including making the names of dead

relatives appear on slates. Answering questions written at home on their paper and returned

to them still sealed! This information is priceless! This information was sold by Kara in 1926

for $100.00! A copy of the original ad comes with the book of Al Mann's. Al gives you added

information on how to do all this stuff today in a practical manner. The act is just amazing

today as it was in 1926 and that is why Al sold this valuable information. Originals of the 1926

Kara Manuscripts have sold for hundreds of dollars, but you can get the same information in

Al's reproduction of this material.

The Keys to Khalda

The Egyptian Mystic The AME Major Arcana Series VI

Spiral-Bound Softcover 13 pages 1988 Copyright From the

Introductory Material: "I have an Egyptian Mentalist called

Khalda, whom I consider as good as Bishop, if not better!" said

Major Pond to psychic investigator Joseph Rinn in 1898 in NYC. -

- - "Klahda has a charming personality. He is a cultured Egyptian

and claims that in Cairo, where he was born, he holds the rank of

Effendi [member of aristocracy]. He speaks perfect English, has a

glib tongue and is well posted in the mystical philosophy of the

East." "Mindreading and spiritualism is buncombe!" confessed

Khalda. "Anyone who claims to have supernatural powers is a

crook!" . . . "I am amazed how people can be fooled by such

simple means." . . . Khalda made these confessions in an expose in the New Your World in

1906 but in 1925 we find him working for Hereward Carrington and posing as a genuine

telepathist! Let's go behind the scenes and take a close look at this amazing Egyptian. Most of

the rest of this manuscript is devoted to describing effects done by Khalda and then


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attempting to develop methods by which he achieved them. In many ways this manuscript is

similar to "The Foster Account". Routines & Effects:

First Names

Contact Mindreading

The Noetic Chain

As the Quill Moves

The Spirit Pencil

The Speed Reader

On Mindreading

The Tumbler Billet Switch

The last 2 pages of this manuscript are devoted to a refinement of a previous effect from Al

Mann. This is called the Proteus Opener and is essentially a different way to prepare a

gimmicked envelope.

The Knights Gambit

AL MANN hismself says about this manuscript: "THE

KNIGHT'S GAMBIT IS A METHOD THAT PLAYS ON WORDS

AND BY WHICH MIRACLES ARE WROUGHT! THIS IS

MENTAL MAGIC IN ITS PUREST FORM". The Mentalist uses

words to enchant the audience and to create a non-existing

person that assists the Mentalist to present his marvels!

EFFECTS INCLUDE:

THE KNIGHT'S GAMBIT (mentalism using chess pieces)

A WORD IN ORBIT (a brilliant book test)

THE FIVE STAR GAMBIT (The Mentalist uses the spirit of Mr.

Faust to assist him in a unique psychic test)

GIFTS MOST RARE

A SPECIAL BONUS - PHANTINI'S FABULOUS BILLET WORK!

The Kolophon

1980 Copyright Manuscript is broken into 8 sections:

Deja-Vu

The Kolophon

The Pseudograph

The Dyad of Chronos

The Deuce of Books

The Untouchables

The MME Mental-Gram II

The Improvisitor

From the Forward by Al Mann: In January of 1979, Bobby

Hughes of Columbus Ohio, showed me his amazing presentation

which we have called, "The Kolophon." It seems that just a year

ago, Bobby was busy buying many props and gimmicks to use in


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his mental show. Today all of the props and most of the gimmicks have been eliminated and

Bobby now works out of his pocket or with borrowed scraps of paper. That is the type of

mentalism preferred and what is offered in this book. Therefore AME Salutes Bobby Hughes

for his unique effect with envelopes. The Kolophon is a threshold that reveals a hugh

landscape and we hope to come u[ with more miracles. AME also salutes Stan Alexander for

the excellent principle used in The Dyad of Chronos.

Lexicon phenomena

This 1976 Al Mann Exclusive is widely regarded as one of his

most ingenious book tests. From an "Enrich your vocabulary" list

inside the covers of a dictionary, two spectators secretly agree to

think of one of 400 word pairs. Each thinks of one of the words,

looking it up in the dictionary to be certain of its meaning. The

mentalist does not know the word pair they chose and does not

handle the dictionary. He may be at some distance from the

spectators as they look up the words. But once they have

ascertained the words' meanings, he is able to tell them what they

are thinking! Nothing written down, nothing to hide. You get Al

Mann's signed instructions with his diabolical secret, plus the

dictionary, and that certain something that makes the secret

practical. Al Mann's works were never inexpensive, and this was no exception. To preserve

the secret, he had the instructions printed by two printers in different states, so that even they

would not know the secret! Al Mann knew the value of a good idea, and this is one of his best.

This comes with a Webster's New World Dictionary from 1974 (gilt still bright! See scan), but

once the secret is known, it can readily be adapted to any dictionary, in any language!

LIMELIGHT - PUBLICITY FOR THE MENTALIST

LIMELIGHT! PUBLICITY FOR THE MENTALIST. This is

considered to be the DEFINATIVE TREATISE on the subject.

Included is techniques and effects that will SHOCK THE PUBLIC

such as, CONTACT MIND READING, PSYCHIC HEALING,

PREDICTING THE FUTURE AND MUCH MUCH MORE!

LIMELIGHT includes:

MYSTIQUE PUBLICITY

THE MINDREADER

HOAX PUBLICITY

PROPHESY

PSEUDO-PREDICTIONS

PROMOTION

IN A NUT SHELL

PERSONAL PUBLICITY

STUNT-PUBLICITY

ATLANTIS

BONUS EFFECT: CASSANDRA'S CLOAK.


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The Mag Eye Move

A spectator can write a long questions that goes from one end of

the slip to the other other. You guess it. The wonder worker

(that's you) reads the whole question while he is tearing up the

folded paper to tiny bits! Looks impossible yet this is what you

do! Illustrated with 18 line drawings and photographs. Plus a

paper tearing secret by Richard Osterlind and the Sting by Al

Mann. The stings lets you repeat the move and FOOL the wise

ones. Plus WHAT TO DO when the person wads up the paper.

This was the FIRST release in the major Arcana Series.

The Magic Castle Lecture Notes

MINDBLOW - An examination of the David Berglas classic "thought-of card at any number"

THE SHATTERED LINK - Breaking a chain at any link called for. Wild PK demo

BOOK-TEAR - Spectator takes an unprepared paperback. Tears it along the spine and starts

discarding pages. When finally left with one page the contents are divined OR previously

predicted

THE CHAIN-OF-THOUGHT - Further examination of a book test/principle first examined in

Mann's OF WORDS AND WIZARDS.

THE CHAIN-OF-THOUGHT READING - More on the concept.

THE GOLD-BUG PREDICTIONS - The test as a Prediction effect.

1979

Marks of St.Germain

The manuscript deals with the lost art of making marks appear

on your arm and palm. Mann explains how to make messages

appear in blood red ink on your arm as you rub it without using a

special chemical. More important are the methods Mann has

developed to make spirit marks or stigmata appear on your

hands or palms. This is all based the famous St.Germain who was

able to make the sign of the cross appear on his palm in a holy

white color. Using techniques developed by Al Mann, you can

have your palm examined and even washed! There are no

chemicals or preparation on the palm. Yet at will you can make a

white cross materialize on your palm just like the saints of old did

(probably using this method!) There is more, Mann describes how

to have your palm examined and then an ungimmicked slate is place on your palm. Marks

made on the slate also materialize on your palm. EVEN THE BACK OF YOUR HAND. For

those of you into the psychic or faith healing bit, imagine this. Open your palms so they can be

seen blank as you reach out to LAY hands on the sick. When you remove your hands it is seen

that HOLY white crosses have appeared on your palms! Is this a sign from ABOVE to

convince the true believers? IF YOU ACTUALLY PULL THIS CRAP ON SOMEONE SHAME


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ON YOU! Mann even tells you how to make these marks appear on the palm of the spectators

or sitters. This is must reading for anyone wanting to create the pyschic or religious stigmata

effect with their body. This is the kind of stuff you could imagine David Blaine doing on the

streets and freaking people out. These effects appear to be true psychic effects or religious

stigmata depending on how you play it. Sure it's not everyone's cup of tea, but to my

knowledge this information appears nowhere else in print. BONUS EFFECT IN BOOK Al

Mann includes a section that gives you the abridged version of Steve Shaws Touches effect

that has sold for as much as a hundred dollars on ebay.THIS IS THE EFFECT WHERE

PEOPLE FEEL SPIRITS TAP THEM WHILE YOU ARE ACROSS THE ROOM AWAY FROM

THEM! If you just want to do the effect, Mann gives you the basic and correct method without

all the fluff and filler found in the new Shaw manuscript.

Master Mind Headline Predictions

DUNNINGER'S SPEAKING THE HEADLINES: Dunninger

announced tha he would the SPEAK the headlines of a prominet

newspaper for the following day.The predictions would be

spoken over a national radio show. HOW DID HE DO IT? The

secret is revealed in this book. The Caper: Once the prediction is

mailed only the recipient touches it, opens it and reads the

predictions of the day's events. Learn how to do this! Plus much

more, including other DUNNINGER secrets. Also includes an

unpublished manuscript of Jack Deans on a super headline

prediction.

Dunninger’s "Brain-Thrust"

Dunninger’s "Slip Switch"

The Cornucopia Caper

Geller’s Gaff

Knock On Any Door

Jack Dean’s "Iron Clad Prediction"

Master Slate Secrets - I

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Master Slate Secrets - II

This is one of the larger Al Mann books. In these pages you will

find the secrets to many marketed slate tricks. Many are

described in detail.

Psychic Writing

Two Slates produce 4 Messages

Television Slates

The Omar Slates

The Phantom Slates

Covers Most Trick Pocket Slates Telepathic Slates Rare Secret

Revealed

Master Slate Secrets - III

Contents:

Instant messages

Writing in mid-air

The black and white slates

The supersonic message

The pinnacle slate

The mindreading slates

The clip slate

Occluded thoughts

The 3 slate office test

Convincing spirits

Keeler's baffling slate test

The singing blackboard

The singing slate

The analytical book test

The mental choice slate

Abbot's mental slate

The Fantabolo slate

The Khan slate principle

The Util-a-prop slate

Dunninger's miracle slate

The Baker-Dunninger slate

U.F. Grants miracle slate

The miracle slate deluxe

Addithots

The third force

An infallable force

Citation

Final epic


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The triple psychometry slate

Blue ribbon slate prediction

Master Slate Secrets - IV

No Description available

Maximus

Maximus: the Man with the Terrible Power. The AME Major

Arcana Series #15. Maximus is the miracle worker of the age.

Hereads thoghts and fortells your future. He walks admisdt an

audience of total strangers and calls them by name and answers

their unwritten and unspoken questions. includes several ideas

of cold reading and a perfect act with a nothing written Q&A

act!! Yes, nobody in your audience writes the questions on the

paper, they just think it!

Contents:

The Nothing Written Q & A act, complete.

Introduction, opening effects ( Hurling the Headlines; Hurling

the Answers)

Excorcism

Mindreading

Enters the High Priest

The Clinchers and the Closing effects.

Plus HOW TO CAST OUT DEMONS!

THE CHURCH OF EVERLASTING LIGHT plus THE ELIXER OF THE GODS. The contents

of a folded card floating on water is divined, Anyone can examine the card before and after.

BONUS: Exorcism, an effect which was published in the "High Domain"


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20 pages.

1985

Memo Motion

This is the Memo Motion Book by Al Mann, The 1st in the AME

Zodiac Series. Billets, Cards, predictions and the works in this

one. Very in depth. Some great material, very cool and workable

stuff here. You will love this book. Copyright 5/97.

Mental Ettes

MENTAL-ETTES includes:

A LINK WITH ETERNITY (AN OBJECT LESSON IN THE

ART OF MINDREADING)

TO COMMAND THE ELEMENTS (WEATHER

PREDICTION)

THOT-PRINTS 1 (TEST BY FIRE)

THOT-PRINTS II (PASSING THOUGHTS)

MENTAL-KINESIS (SPOON BENDING)

DINNER TABLE YOGA (LEVITATION)

THE MYSTERY OF THE TRIPLETS (MATH MENTALISM)

THE SANS TEAR CENTER METHOD (BILLETS)

THE UNSEEN TEAR

SEALED AND TORN MESSAGES

GEMEL'S MESSAGES

THE TRETOLOGY OF DIONYSUS

THE MYSTIC CHALICE

TYPHON'S TONGS

HERPICKS' TONGS

PSYCHIC FEEDBACK

SUSPENDED ANIMATION

THE PHARAOH'S PALM

Mental Parcel

The Purloined Thought

The In-N-Outer Boxes


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In a Quandry

The Nu-Way Force

A Presidential Note

Plus, hints, updates and modifications to the following AME

releases: - The LEXICON PHENOMENA; - DEATH WATCH; -

THE THINKING MACHINES; - PIECES OF EIGHT; - MASTER

SLATE SECRETS; - MENTAL-ETTES; - THE THIRD ECSTASY; -

PANDORA’S BOX; - PSYCHO-MENTISIS; - OF WORDS AND

WIZARDS; - THE SIBYLLINE MESSAGES; - INNER SPACE

ODYSSEY; - CLASSIFIED; - THE PHOTON SHIELD; -

BREAKTHOUGH; - THE APODOSIS; - THE TESSERACT; -

ARCA; - and two effects with ARCA by Joseph White

(presentation only).

The Might of The Nephilim

Mind Your Poker

Part II from AL MANN Sodiac Series. You will find here several

card techniques and a special card trick: how to deal five Aces to

any seat at the poker table with a shuffled and cut deck. From

the introduction, by Al Mann: I have been told by magicians

who should know, that Poker demostrations and Mentalism

should not mix. I disagree with the above 100%... I have seen the

amazed look in the eyes of a person when the Mentalist reads his

mind... And I have also seen the terrible look in the eyes of the

spectator after the Miracle Man deals five aces (4 aces and the

joker), to any seat at the poker table, from a shuffled and cut

deck. The controlling of four aces at the poker table represents to

the laymen untilmate power, the Ne Plus UItra of the human


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experience, an uncanny talent indeed, and Mega bucks!!! 28 pages.

Miracle Slate Deluxe

slate measures 10" x 14" and is specially gaffed. Includes

directions with routining by the inventor Al Mann. One

paragraph of the instructions states as follows "With this slate

the Miracle Worker can perform one of the most impressive tests

in Mentalism which is the 16 digit effect. This effect is done with

9, 12, 16 or more digits and is always referred to as the 16 digit

effect."

Missing Tesserae

Al Mann wrote up hundreds of ideas. BUT this is the one he

actually used in his shows. It's my favorite of all his effects and I

have used it to knock an audience dead with stunned silence.

Here is what Al says about this effect: I consider this effect as on

the greatest test that a Mentalist can present. I do it in my shows.

The concept of the test is so strong tht your audience receeds

into profound silence. They have never seen the effect before!

Sophisticated spectators who have seen Mentalist several times

know that if they write something down, the mentalist will

know what they wrote. They don't know how, but they know he

read it somehow. With the principle of Tesseract, the members of

the audience WRITE NOTHING! Therein lies the mystery. THE

DEADLY EFFECT! The Mentalist shows 3 business cards and says they contain predictions of

things to come. He says he is willing to share the predictions with 3 members of the audience

(not stooges) so they can read and see them in advance. The 3 cards are passed out to 3

different people. They people who get the cards actually see and read your predictions. They

are not hidden. Members of the audience call out a 3 digit number, a city, and a word is

chosen from a book. Nothing is written down by the audience members, they just call this

stuff out. Believe it or not the mentalist gathers the three preditions and reads them to the

audience. THEY MATCH! He then looks at the 3 members of the audience and they verify the

predictions were the same ones they read before anything was called out! READ THAT

again. This is the true effect and nothing left out! Oh yes at the end you can leave everything

on the table for anyone to pickup. Everything is as should be.

The Naked Thought

Simply the ULTIMATE in one ahead methods. A technique

unlike anything you've read or seen before. Al Mann says his


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solution is a masterful misdirection accomplished with the aid of

a combination of Al Mann principles. It is the Space-Age version

of the one-head system but done WITHOUT COPPING THE

FIRST QUESTION OR USING STOOGES! No switching of

billets or behind the curtain preshow preparations. Mann gives

you several killer effects using this principle. Even those who

know about one ahead won't realize you're using the principle

with this advanced work. The secret was expensive when it first

came out and very exclusive. Must reading for those who want

new angles on one-ahead methods. This is forbidden knowledge

and is not recommended for beginners. Easy to master, no hard sleights, but you need to be a

showman to pull this off properly. Recommended for experienced mentalist who use one

ahead principles.

THE NAKED THOUGHT

THE QUANTUM LEAP

SWAMI-WRITING

The Nihon Venture

From the MOST BRILLIANT MIND IN MENTAL MAGIC

comes this RARE AND ULTRA EXCLUSIVE AL MANN

MANUSCRIPT: "THE NIHON VENTURE". As AL MANN

himself states in the opening line of the Introduction, "THIS

MANUSCRIPT CONTAINS 'THE PERFECT BILLET TEST!'". A

simple paper fold plus a simple move places into the hands of

the Mentalist a new weapon, an ULTRA EXCLUSIVE

SECRET-giving the art of thought-reading a new polish and

technique never before possible! Of course as always AL MANN

was not satisfied to just give you the one effect. "THE NIHON

VENTURE" contains equally brilliant varations and re-workings.

Included in THE NIHON VENTURE is:

TEAR RETAXO

THE YING AND THE YANG

MEMORY GIANT

IMMOLATED MOOLA

THE TELEPHONE SCENARIO.

No Man Within

ADVANCED TECHINQUE FOR THE MENTALIST! Featuring

ENVELOPES-BILLETS-AND THE QUASAR DECK! Including:

NO MAN WITHIN

THE CIRCEAN SWINDLE (a name, a number and a city freely

chosen by the audience are predicted by the Mentalist!)

AT THE GATES OF BUDDHA

THE TENTS OF OBHA-EED

BONUS THE QUASAR DECK


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No Toccare

18 pages. An Al Mann exclusives. Card feats for the mentalist.

This book is devoted only to card effects using a borrowed deck

that is shuffled and cut and remains in the hands of your

audience always. The deck is never handled by the mentalist.

None so Blind

Al's views on blindfolds are included as is his favorite blindfold

in detail ("it baffles everyone including the Medicos")...the

materials used can be thoroughly examined as they are

ungimmicked...messy substances like adhesive tapes, oils,

vaseline, soap, cream, dough or glue are not used...the blindfold

has been called "The Best Blindfold" by the experts...but most

importantly of all, it is a Headline getter!...the entire 'Blindfold

Act' including the Blindfold Drive is detailed: What to do before

the show; what to do before the blindfold is put on; how to put it

on; what to do after it is on; and what to do after the act... Bonus:

Argamasilla's Hunt--Argamasilla stunned magicians in NYC

with his ability to tell the time set secretly on a watch after it was

closed and while he was blindfolded...the secret moves are detailed so that the performer can

do the effect surrounded. Plus: The Seer's Watch Box--Three watches are secretly set by the

audience, closed and locked into a box with a key. The Seer divines all three times without

anything being written and while he is blindfolded and without unlocking the box.

O'Daneven's Secret

Introducing a new gem for the mentalist. Effect: Mentalist shows a display folder showing 16

designs in 16 squares. Each square is numbered 1 to 16. Spectator is asked to just glance at the

many designs and just to think of one. Spectator has an absolute free choice and does not write

anything down. He just thinks! And the performer divines the thought. Two or more

spectators can choose designs mentally at the same time and performer divines all the

thoughts. Performer can predict days ahead of time, two, three or more designs that will be

chosen. Performer uses nothing but the folder which is visible at all times. Do not mistake this


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effect for other similar but inferior effects now on the market. Dice, cards or counters are not

used. Comes with full instructions and several methods. The effect is new and has never

appeared in print before.

Of Gifts and Talents

1982 AL MANN EXCLUSIVE MANUSCRIPT: "OF GIFTS AND

TALENTS"., which allows the MENTALIST to VERY

CONVINCINGLY demonstrate THE ABILITY TO READ

SEALED MESSAGES AND POSSES THE ART OF

THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE! The spectator is told to take his

business card out and write out a question and turn the card

writing-side down. The card is then sealed in a envelope which

the spectator signs and holds. After the Mentalist divines the

thought, the envelope is opened and the card is taken out for a

handwriting analysis and then both the card and the evelope are

returned to the spectator! CONTENTS:

THE ESSENCE OF THOUGHT

THRESHOLD THREE

THE LANCE FROM LUCUS SOLIS

RIPPER AMOK BY REV. JOHN KEENAN

CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS

BONUS - PSYCHIC GRAMMAR, A FABOULOUS BOOK TEST!

Of Words and Wizards

Contents:

The Ghost of the Unborn

The Master of the Word

The Adonis Book Test

Adonis, Aphrodite and Zeus

Fifth Row Center Aisle

The Shades of Thought

The Uninvited

Forcing the Word

Forcing Three Words

The Book Mark

And more.......

The OSS Writer

XXII in the Al Mann Major Arcana

Series, not a swami, but will do

many of the same effects, shows


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how to make your own very easily,

how to use it, some wonderful

routines and special applications.

Ways To One Ahead

A folding switch devulged

Annemann's fold

Bert reese's Pocket switch

The Umbrella Move

1995

The Page of Swords

This is an Ultra Exclusive Release #2 Mind Boggling effects that

leave the spectators in AWE of your special powers Imagine this,

a perfect stranger comes up to you, on stage or on the table is a

sealed envelope. It is ungimmicked and unprepared in any way.

The person may examine it to his heart's content then hangs on

to it. The master psychic (that's you) ask the person to call out

the name of any person that is dead or the name of any living

person that is important to them. Showing both hands to be

empty with nothing hidden, the magician rips open the end of

the envelope and has THE PERSON REACH IN A REMOVE A

CARD. ON THAT CARD ARE THE INTIALS OF THE PERSON

HE JUST NAMED! Remember the spectator removes the card

from the sealed envelope NOT the mentalist! Baffling beyond words. Yes the envelope can be

examined and you can leave the envelope and card with the person to keep. No Carbon's are

used, No impression devices. The magician doesn't write the name on a pad of paper before

the envelope is opened. The person just names the person. The envelope is opened and they

remove the card and it has the intials of that person they just named! THINK ABOUT That! If

that alone isn't worth the price of the book Al Mann reveals how to BORROW a deck and

secretly mark a large Z on the back of a card. The deck is shuffled by the spectator and placed

on the table. Magician says the Z card will predict where the deck will be cut by the spectator.

The spectator cuts the deck and at that spot is seen the card with the Z on it. The mentalist

has again seen in the future. No other cards have a mark on them, use the deck can be

borrowed and NO rough or smooth. ONLY ONE CARD IN THE WHOLE DECK HAS A

MARK ON IT FOR REAL. This card will unfailingly always be at the spot the spectator cut.

No slights or secret passes either, just a NEW tool for the psychic. Have a sealed envelope on

the table, a sitter or perfect stranger comes in. They open the envelope and remove a card. It

reveals their Birthmark sign! Psychic shows an empty tea cup and fills it with tea. A person

concentrates on a ESP symbol. NO FORCE. The symbol appears inside the cup filled with tea

in an errie black marking! Al Says this can be a feature of your show. Read carefully the true

effect: Mentalist passes out a thick book and tells one person to flip the corners and to stop

anywhere. HE DOES this in his own hands! He is asked to note the page number. The book is

then passed to a second person who opens the book to the chosen page. NOW HEAR THIS!

The freely chosen page has a large red cross on it. It's the only page in the book with a mark

on it! Read that again, the only page in the book! Mentalist says he knew ahead of time that

page would be chosen and proceeds to recite the first line of print! Without seeing the book!


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No FORCES, no prepared book, you can borrow one and do this. No stooges or miscalling of

numbers.

The effect is: THE PSYCHIC THROWS A SEALED ENVELOPE TO A SITTER ACROSS

FROM HIM AND ASKS THE SITTER TO NAME SOMEONE VERY SPECIAL IN THEIR

LIFE. LO AND BEHOLD WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE THE PSYCHIC HAS BEEN

ABLE TO DIVINE THE INITALS OF THE INDIVIDUAL THAT THE SITTER HAS CHOSEN!

A one of a kind effect that will dazzle anyone who takes part in it or even witnesses it! The

manuscript also contains the instructions for performing this effect on stage. ALSO

INCLUDED:

THE MARK OF ZORRO

BIRTHMARK

THE TEST OF THE TEA CUP

THE FIERY CROSS

PIPE DREAMS!

Pandora's Box

35 pages covering Prophecy - forecasting the Future with

pinpoint accuracy . Al Mann also covers the history of "the box

and what not", from Owen's first classic model to some very

clever variations. He also addresses "the size of the prediction

paper", the gaff and how to avoid "problems" using it, as well as

ways to present the effect in the newspaper office and on stage.

Fascinating history and practical insight.

A Short History

Box Size

Loyd Prediction Chest Advert

Explanation. 7+ pages, including discussing "failure"

The Doll House

Dunninger's Treasure Chest

Capsule Prediction

The Gift of Tiresias

Himber's Crystal Casket

The Dunninger Himber feud

The World's Greatest

Al Mann's Prediction Chest

This Block of Wood in a Tin Box

The $10,000 Challenge Chest

Dreams

Dr. B’s Telamatic Prediction The Forerunners

The Double Box

The Nest of Boxes

The Other Boxes

Canned Predictions (ie: inside sealed cans)

The Predicting Pet Rock

Kindred Gimmicks

The Strange Prediction by Walter B. Gibson


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Davy Jone’s Locker

Cagliostro’s Casket

In Conclusion – The Prediction Story

Pandora II

This book is a sequel and part to PANDORA'S BOX, the first

book ever written on the Mentalist's prediction chest and its art.

Contains:

OWNE ANNIVERSARY PREDICTION CHEST

THE GHOST CHEST

DR. Q'S PREDICTION CHEST

THE DELUXE RING BOX

O'DOWD'S AUDACITY

THE MYSTERY BOX

MARTY'S MINIATURE PREDICTION CHEST

AN INPROVED WATCH BOX

THE LIPPINCOTTS

BLOCK RR-4

THE BOXES FROM BHUTAN

THE PARIAN PARCELM THE BOX FROM LISBON

OKITO'S LOAF

A Panorama of Marvels

This is quite a find for the collector or mentalist who enjoys Al

Mann's great work. It's about 13 years old and is officially titled

AME Catalogue One for Miracle Makers. Practically everything

he has written is in this book. You'll be able to complete your

collection by figuring out what you a missing as well as being

quite annoyed that you can't locate some of these books

anymore. It is 8 1/2 x 11, spiral bound and about 90 pages (front

and back printed) long. Also included is a 1998 price list, 4 loose

pages and 7 pages stapled to the back cover. Al sent out

supplements when new books came out. In the catalog are a few

check marks next to titles in ink. This is not in mint condition but

was used as a reference source by a mentalist - thus it does

indeed look used - rough edges, wrinkles, some bends. But the material within is quite

interesting. Dunninger material too. Even if you never get the actual books, you'll find your

mind thinking about the effects that are described. Did you know he introduced a new gem

for the mentalist called O'DANEVEN'S SECRET?

Phanta-Graphs

17 pages Copyright by Al Mann Exclusives From the Forward

by Al Mann: The Mag-Eye catapults the center-tear method of

thought reading into the Space-Age! The technique given here


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makes obsolete most of the former writings on the center-tear.

Including the author's own. Such is progress. But bear in mind

that occasionally the mentalist will have need of resorting to the

original method of stealing the folded center piece as some

spectators write a message and fold it and bring it to you for a

test. At this writing only two persons know the secret of the

Mag-Eye move. Only three persons know the secrets of "Cistella"

and only one has presented in public. So the AMS manuscripts

remain exclusive as promised. Manuscript Sections:

Cistella Mightier Than the Sword

Castle Catch

At the Table; and Gysel's Gimmick

Misdirection

In a Book

The Bookshelf

In the Glass

The Time Piece

The AME Double-Writer

Invisible Door

An Impromptu Double-Writer

A Friend Indeed

The Long Writers

The Big Writer

Throw-Away Swamis

The Pantograph

Dunninger's Mind Warp

Syd

The Mag-Eye Move

Azrael

Phantom Voices

TRANS PHONE TEST: Mentalist ask anyone in the audience

to use his cell phone to call home and ask anyone to choose a

number (which is kept secret). Another person chooses a number

secretly. These numbers combined secretly by the spectators to

arrive a page in a book. Mentalist reveals the passage in the book

plus the two numbers thought of.YOU NEVER APPROACH

THE SPECTATORS.

WEIRD PROPHESY: You write 6 digits on a card and give to

anyone to hold. The digits are visible to the person holding

them. Members of the audienc call out 4 digits while another

person on the phone chooses 2 more. The six digits choosen are

the ones on the card! Baffling beyond words to say the least.

DAY OF JACKAL: A perfect stranger is called and asked to name three items. These three

items have been written down before the show and held by the audience.

WIZARD WALK: According to Mann this item alone is worth the price of the book. Call


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anyone over the phone tell him to get the telephone directory and to choose a page and name

secretly. You tell him the name and PHONE number of the one chosen. Remember this is

done over the phone!

WAY OF THE WARLOCK: A person chooses an word from a book over the phone. You

reveal it

RANDOM HOUSE MYSTERY: Listener has free choice of a word. Mentalist tells him the

page and column it will be found in his dictionary. FANTASTIC effect.

Spirit's Calling: Speak with the dead via telephone. Your audience will BE CONVINCED

YOU DID!

The Photon Sheild

“The PHOTON SHIELD is a new look at the mentalists

clipboard. Introducing a see-through clipboard that can deliver

the secret thought to the mentalist in black and white instantly!

The PHOTON SHIELD is a new impression envelope that is

definitely empty and quite ordinary to the spectator.

The PHOTON SHIELD is a sealed envelope that is indeed

sealed to the beholder, yet the mentalist has ingress to it.

The PHOTON SHIELD is another release of exclusive secrets

for the mentalist from the files of Al Mann Exclusives. It is a new

approach to miracles. New ways and methods for ‘Instant

Thought Reading’, ‘Reading Thoughts that have not been

Written or spoken’, ‘Predicting Headlines’, plus others.”

This contains some very good material which has been greatly overlooked. It also includes

one of the BEST methods for the Headline Prediction ever in print. Plus, a CLEAR impression

clipboard!

Pieces of Eight

1976

A PERFECT BLEND OF ENVELOPE AND PSYCHIC

MENTALISM! PIECES OF EIGHT offers a gimmick-free way of

presenting the HEADLINE PREDICTING STUNT. The method

is superior to any that has appeared in print, in the fact that

NOTHING IS USED BY ENVELOPES AND SCISSORS. There

are no funny moves! or the need for overacting or other kinds of

misdirection. Contains:

PIECES OF EIGHT

SHACKELED

MANDRAGORA

A VARIATION.

The Proteus Envelope Supreme


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So you think you know everything about Protues evelopes?

Don't be so sure Al Mann improved the basic concept and wrote

a whole book about! What does it do? Anything written on the

outside of the Proteus Envelope appears written inside the

envelope ON A PAPER OF A DIFFERENT COLOR. PAST

VERSIONS REQUIRED THE PAPER TO BE THE SAME COLOR

AS THE ENVELOPE Anyone can cut open the envelope and

remove the paper. All things can be examined. No carbons or

chemical paper used. NO double writing. Full detailed

directions. Six mindboggling effects included.

Hundreds of effects are possible with this the Ulitmate in trick

envelopes, yet one that will pass inspection and a through examination.

Psi-Clone

Just the thing to impress people who call you for a booking.

Demonstrate your powers right over the phone. Al Mann gives

you several effects you can do that he used to fool other

mentalists when they called him. Over the phone you can tell

people the names of cards they have written on a slip of paper.

Reveal cards that are face down on the table even though you

are hundreds of miles away. Have someone shuffle a deck and

mix up some cards face up and face down. You can reveal the

number of cards face up with no fishing! Of course these effects

can be done in the same room with your back turned but these

are designed to be done over the phone when you need to

convice a caller you're got strange and wonderful powers.

Psy-Force and the Unknowns

A study of the psychological force and the equivoke ( detailed in

11 pages). Rivaling the Psychologists. How the Master Magicians

do it infallibly. Plus the mystery of the choosing of the Unknown

Soldier. How to do it over the telephone. Plus how to cut the

odds.

The Psychic Ring

Once again Al Mann takes you inside the inner sanctums of the


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hidden secrets of professional mediums and psychics. In this

book he covers the psychic ring feats. Most of the feats involve

placing a solid and examined ring or hoop on a table and having

the person hold your hands. The lights go out for a few seconds

and the ring or hoop has materialized on the person's arm. Mann

gives you several ways of doing this, plus other feats where

rings penetrate bars held by the person in the dark. Apparently

done by the spirts or psychic power. In many of these feats only

ONE RING is used and is ungimmicked. Rings can be marked

before appearing on the arm. If this isn't enough Mann teaches

you how sit across from a person and hold both of their hands, an assistant turns out the

lights and then quickly turns them back on.THREE HOOLA HOOPS HAVE

MATERIALIZED AND ARE AROUND THE PERSON'S WAIST SITTING ON THE CHAIR

EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE STILL HOLDING THEIR HANDS! Bonus Effect: Included is a

killer effect that will fool most mentalists and alone is worth the price of the book. Mentalist

writes the name of girl on a card and folds it half and gives to someone to hold. Another

person is given a card and asked to write down a girl's name. Believe it or NOT the name you

wrote matches the name the person write. NO stooges. Baffling beyond words and typical Al

Mann genius.

Psycho - Mentisis

There is TELEKINESIS of all kinds within these pages from coins

to nails. AN EFFECT THAT ALLOWS THE

MENTALIST/PSYCHIC TO BRING DEAD ANTS BACK TO

LIFE! LEVATATION EFFECTS, ABNORMAL LIFTS,

TELEPORTATION, CREATING MOVEMENT WITH YOUR

MIND! EFFECTS INCLUDED:

THE BENDS

PERMUTATION OF MATTER - A SOLID THROUGH A

SOLID EFFECT

THE SPIKES OF ASMODEUS

THE FRANKENSTEIN AFFAIR

IMPONDERABLE ENRGY

THE REACH OF THE MIND

MERLIN'S MAGIC MARIONETTES

THE SECRET OF THE ANCIENTS

1977

The Purloined Thought

THE PURLOINED THOUGHT is a treatise on the history,

methodology and technique on the use of torn billets in the

mentalist’s art of thought reading. It starts with an in depth

study of the history and evolution of the Center Tear and goes


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on to detail more work on billets than you could use in a

lifetime. The Thirteen Chapters are:

INITIUM

BLUE RIBBON EFFECTS

FACTS

PROPHESY

QandA CENTRAL

THE COVERT TEAR

TEAR AND READ METHODS

THE YOUNG LIONS

PYRAMID POWER

SANS TEAR METHODS

PRE-TORN MISSIVES

SEALED MESSAGES

THE DAY OF THE SIT-TORES

There are contributions from Rudy Hunter, Al Baker, Ted Karmilovich, Ray Hyman, Bob

Cassidy, Richard Osterlind and Dai Vernon. 156 pages, usual Al Mann style and page size

Hard Bound

The Quick and the Dead

The book deals exclusively with Living and Dead tests. It gives a

detailed history of the effect and how David Abbott was fooled

by mediums doing this. Learn inner secrets from the mediums

on how to reveal the names of dead relatives. Simply ingenious

methods that will startle you with their cleverness. Mann goes

into much detail on these test and ways to learn the names of

dead relatives. Some of these methods were later revamped by

Mann and released as other effects but using the basic methods.

Mann also teaches you a creepy effect, called Empty Graves,

where a person writes the name of a dead person on one of

twenty UNMARKED BILLETS. They are dropped in hat and

mixed by the VIP. He attempts to divine which billet contains

the dead name, but fails, no matter how many times he chooses a billet. Yet the psychic,

quickly reaches in and gets the correct vibs and removes the slip containing the dead name.

Not only that but then reveals the dead person's name. If the performer is so inclined at this

point he can go into a trance a give a message to the person from the dead relative.

Quin Taces

Very strong routine for reading the minds of the spectators...a

sentence of many words (16 or more) is written on a

blackboard...all the words are different and the words can be

chosen from ANY BOOK by the audience...three persons are

then asked to mentally choose words...they have a free


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choice...they are to concentrate on their secret choice of words

and say nothing...QUIN TACES means BE SILENT and that is

excactly what is taking place...silently he then divines all the

thoughts of the three persons AND HE does it all at ONCE...NO

FISHING...spectators do not speak, they just think...this is the

most advanced material Al Mann ever released...you can use a

sentence they come up with! NOTE: The three persons think of

their words at the same time...the three persons can each choose one word or as many as four

or more...the Mentalist gets them all...THE TEST CAN BE DONE IN ANY LANGUAGE! The

spectators need not leave their seats...the mentalist can be on stage and never approaches the

spectators...NOTHING IS WRITTEN DOWN BY THE SPECTATORS...THEY ONLY THINK

OF THE WORDS AND NEVER WRITE THEM DOWN! Mentalist reveals the words as words

and doesn't fish around getting one letter at a time...he just reveals the whole word in one

sweep and tells all 3 people the whole word they are thinking of...This is the stuff that will

make you a reputation and will convice the most hard core skeptic...looks like the real thing

and is almost too good to release! Remember you can use a sentence they come up with!

The Road to Lhasa

Letters materalize in mid air and fall to the table A paper is

signed and written on by various members of the audience. It is

visibly burnt (no envelope!) by ANY member of the audience

AND THEN RESTORED BY THE PSYCHIC! Two people write

thoughts on two business cards that are folded and placed on

the table and never touched again, YET you reveal what they

wrote! Al's Gem: A person writes anything on a business card

which is unfolded and can be examined. Without any funny

moves and the card remaining in sight at all times you reveal the

message! SOME TOTAL: Read this one you won't believe it! Two

person's write numbers on business cardss. YOU DO NOT

KNOW the numbers. Yet you say I can tell you the total of both

and YOU DO SO!

The Ripper's Jack

This book is XX in AME Major Arcana Series, Shows how to

make this little gimmick that will allow you to open envelopes

undetected by the audience. Has presentations and applications,

a nice little Gem, Very useable and a wonderful reference, in

depth, ingenious methods primarily for mentalist. Copyright

1994.


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Scorpio's Curve

(Occult Business with a Business Card)

Scorpio's Curve

The Echoing Walls

Thot Covert

Salem's Bridge

Postman's Curve

Seance - A Heavenly Odyssey

(1983) Levitating Heavy Objects

(Tables & Pianos)

Slade's Flying Chair

The Magician's Flying Table

The Abnormal Lift

The Gyrating Tables

Hand & Rope Releases

Medium's Sack Escape

Levitation of the Human Body

Becoming Non-Liftable

Psychic Lights

Hints on "programming" the

seance

Invocation Slips

Spirit Handkerchief

Phantom Slate

Teleportation, the saintly gift (teleporting the medium from a

locked room)

Contains guarded secrets of William Eglinton (who puzzled the

great Harry Keller), Charles H. Foster, Daniel Dunglas Home

and Eusapia Palladino

The Seven Seals

THE TALT MOVE

THE HIDDEN GATE

OPEN SESAME

THE SPECTER


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SPIRITS

THE SEAL OF PROTEUS

THE HEADLINE PREDICTION

THE GREAT DOLLAR BILL CAPER

PREDICTION NUGGET

THE WRECKING CREW

THE COMBINATION PAD LOCK MYSTERY

The Shattered Chalice

Pyro-Sorcery - 8 (eight) methods

for causing a borrowed newspaper

to burst into flame!Arrested

Oxidation: Commanding a piece of

paper held in a flame NOT to burn!

The Shattering Chalice -Smashing

glass by thought! Devil's Tears; The

Devil's Flask; The Iron Duchess; The

Ghost Bullet; The Pulverised

Window Pane; The Glass Key (by

TED LESLEY)

The Falling Block

Cosmic Motion - Several brilliant new effects utilizing the Pendulum Principle, including

movement at a distance!

Bonus Section - The Cobra 8 pages of how to do the snake charming act - for real! Plus, a

very cool levitating doll trick

The Sibyline Messages

As AL MANN himselfs says" THE ABILITY TO READ SEALED

MESSAGES IN AN AWESOME DISPLAY OF UNKNOWN

FORCES." The effects is perfect: WHITE CARDS ARE PASSED

OUT TO THE SPECTATORS TO WRITE THEIR QUESTIONS,

OR MESSAGES ON. THE MENTALIST THEN PASSES OUT

ENVELOPES TO EACH SPECTATOR. THE SPECTATORS

SEAL THEIR CARDS AND THEN SIGN THEIR FULL NAMES

ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ENVELOPES TO WHICH THE

MENTALIST IS ABLE TO TELL THE SPECTATORS WHAT

THEY WROTE DOWN. Included in this manuscript:


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28 pages devoted to newspaper tests.

THE SIBYLLINE MESSAGES

THE VOICE FROM HE ABYSS

THE LEGAL TENDERS

THE FLIGHT OF THE GRIFFINS.

Six Columns

Six Impossible Things

Sotto Voce - Arcana Series XIV

On the secrets of Miracles. Al Mann reveals new techniques for

impossible appearing book tests. Do BOOK tests without actual

books!


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People just imagine they have books and read imaginary

words!YET YOU Reveal and PREDICT THEM!Svengali's Book

Test: A lady chooses any book from a bookcase and is told to

open to any page and choose any line. From across the room you

tell the lady what she is reading. Invisible Book Mentalist writes

a word on a card and folds it up and clips with a paper clip. He

even has someone intial the card so it can't be switched. Anyone

picks up a pretend invisible book and selects a line and then

concentrates on the first word. That very word is the word you wrote on the intialed and

folded card. NO SWITCHES.Remember no actual book is used, just the imagination! Bonus

Effect A double compartment envelope

that can be left for examination!Al Mann hails this as the greatest double compartment

envelope ever devised. After the correct prediction is removed everything can be left for

examination. A rare arcane secret known on to the elite few!

SUPER CLIP LINE PLUS

This is an 8½ x 11 inch, softcover, spiral-bound book from Al

Mann Exclusives. "Telepathy, to many is already a proven fact.

The display of thought reading only confirms an already existing

belief... The Super Clip Line effect appears uncanny to the lay

audience. Rationality cannot account for it unless psychic

phenomena is accepted."

The Test of Thoth

Contains:

The work

Phantini's Phoebe

Tethys (drawing duplication using two audience members)

The Master's touch


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The Tesseract

Chapter 1: discusses the most amazing principle in the art of

the mentalist, with a wide avenue for miracles. Headings include;

Where Eagles Perch, the Tesseract, Panoramas of Thought and

Mass Telepathy. All of the effects are of the one-man dynamic

class

Chapter 2: contains a unique 'Opener Effect' dealing with a new

approach to the presentation of a baffling effect

Chapter 3: deals with "Another Chapter" about the center tear.

The material in this chapter came to light after "the Apodosis"

was printed. This chapter discloses a new and radically different

approach to the presentation of the center tear effect. Here the

center piece opens out almost automatically with little help from

the performer and reveals not one but five full questions written

by as many spectators. The chapter also shows a reproduction of

Sid Lorraine's letter on notes on the center tear that were written

in 1928 and are the first notes on record for the effect. It also

shows a reproduction of Ovette's Mss. on the center tear which

was first advertised in Sept. 1931 in the Sphinx almost a full year

before Annemann released his version

The Bonus: This section is alone worth buying the book! It contains a gimmicked envelope

that any working mentalist will swoon over. This envelope is the finishing touch to many

effects already on the market, including "the Threshold of Miracle" by this author, and many

others that are presented with a not-too-perfect method.This envelope has never been released

before to our knowledge. This information will make many other writings obsolete.

Gentlemen, You will drool over the contents of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and also of Chapter 3

if you are a C-T man and also of the contents of the Bonus section. However the contents of

Chapter 1 and the bonus section are worth more than the price asked and you can consider the

contents of Chapters 2 and 3 as the real bonuses!

THE THINKING MACHINES

This is AL MANN'S BRILLIANT TREATISE ON

MATHIMATICAL MENTALISM! This manuscript allows the

MENTALIST to be able to divine numbers secretly chosen by a

spectator!. ONE OF THE MOST SIMPLE AND BRILLIANT

CREATIONS BY AL MANN. Effects include:

PARSEC

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE MYSTERIES

PHANTOM DIGITS

THE LITTLE FOXES

THE PSYCHIC SQUARES

THE CHALLENGE

GOLDEN DIGITS


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THE PSYCHIC CALCULATOR

SHADES OF INAUDI

ALPHA AND OMEGA

The Third Ecstasy

AL MANN ORIGINAL - THE THIRD ECSTASY - PLUS

BONUS(?B) (P) Card Feats for The Mentalist, by Al Mann, this

being an original vintage and in good shape Comb bound 34

page booklet. Also comes with 2 original AL MANN

advertisements..and these are getting to be a hot ticket

also...these ads are both for (B)The Lexicon Phenomena(?B), his

most famous trick, the one Magicians couldn’t believe was

possible. Both ads are different, so you get 2 kinds of Lexicon

Ads with this manuscript.(p) The book itself is has 14 effects that

Al Mann judged sufficiently amazing enough, and plotted well

enugh, as to be suitable for the mentalist to perform. Also

incuded is a chapter of Olaf Jonnson’s card mentalism stunts, 9

total, with full methedology. ...Jonnson was the Uri Geller of his day, so these additional 9

effects are also excellent fodder for the Mentalism show. The Contents:

The Pros and Cons

Do’s and Dont's

The Flight of the Psycards. - Signed cards to wallet – WITHOUT touching the deck.

Domination of Thought

Caster and Pollux

The Devastators

The Invaders

The D_ESP_Erados

The Third Extasie

Astral Sight

The Mounds of Ishtar

The Psychic Poker Player

Forces (seven pages of “no sleight” forces)

Also... - The Master of the Cards - A discussion on the psychic feats of Olof Jonsson. This final

chapter is probably the most interesting. It consists of some great lateral thinking by Mann,

offering methods for some apparent psychic miracles Jonsson demonstrated with a pack of

cards. Including:

Clairvoyant card calling with a Zener pack

Over the Telephone

Specator becomes the mindreader

Levitation

Teleportation

Seeing Through a Brick Wall

Sensitive Finger Tips

Developing ESP


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THE THRESHOLD OF MIRACLE-

The MENTALIST is able to divine the name and question of a

spectator while the spectator is holding in his/her hands his/her

own sealed question which they can open later to their

mystification. This is 1978 reprinted update! which includes the

amazing ruse called CIRCEAN VESSELS. Contains

THROUGH THE THRESHOLD

THRESHOLD THREE

DESTINY'S DISCIPLE

THE CIRCEAN VESSELS

THROUGH A WALL MISTILY-PSYCHIC SEEING

Included are countless "DIVINATION EFFECTS" on the

"SEEING THROUGH A WALL" theme, that is THE

MENTALIST IS ABLE TO 'SEE' AND RECORD ON PAPER

EVERY ACTION TAKEN BY A SPECTATOR IN THE NEXT

ROOM AS THOUGH THERE WERE A HOLE IN THE WALL!

EFFECTS INCLUDE:

THE SEAT OF THE MIGHTY

THE HOLE IN THE WALL

MIST

THOT ON TITLES

ONE THOUSAND SKULLS (INVOVLING MINIATURE

INEXPENSIVE SKULLS!)

CAMERA OBSCURA

FAIL SAFE

THE JUNPITER EFFECT

THE TKARES SET


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The Tools of Omar

this is a hardcover, bound in black cloth, with gold-stamping on the cover and spine. ( 200

copies printed, of which 30-40 were sold. The rest are lost.) The Tools of Omar is a collection of

nail-writing effects. It collects the AME books, "the Naked Thought", "the Gilded Quill", "the

OSS Writer", "Challenges", "the Invisible Book". Plus history and types of writers. Plus! "The

Ghost Writer" and other new effects.

Tri - Id

(1982) 8 1/2 x 11, staple bound, very good condition. The effect in

brief is: Mentalist displays a board with many designs and

colors. Three persons are invited to secretly choose one design

each. Mentalist passes out three pieces of art board and tells the

three persons to secretly draw their chosen designs on the

boards. They are then instructed to think of their designs and

color. Mentalist divines all three designs and colors. That is the

effect and that is exactly what happens. Mentalist can walk into

any audience and do the test without any previous preparation.

UNCANNILY, THE THREE PERSONS CODE THEIR

THOUGHTS TO THE MENTALIST THROUGH

INSIGNIFICANT "BODY LANGUAGE" THAT ONLY THE

MENTALIST CAN READ

The Trionym Effect

Spiral-Bound Softcover 8 pages 1983 Copyright From the

Forward by Al Mann: The Trionym Effect is the divining of three

separate thoughts from the mind of one or more persons at the

table. The effect is fabulous and profound and will make a

reputation for the performer. Unfortunately, many novices have

steered clear of it simply because former methods called for

difficult moves and sleights that seem to take a lifetime to

master. Here for the first time is a method most easy to so. The

'umbrella' move has been eliminated and the secret reading of

the billets is direct. Plus, there is nothing to force! And: no

dummy billets! Through experience, the billet worker discovers

that the sitter cares little about the size or color of the paper used

and gives no importance to the prefolding of the billets. The Mentalist therefore can use flesh

color paper to his advantage, and choose the proper size of the billet to suit him. The

Mentalist can also insist on prefolded billets as a necessary ritual, etc. The Trionym Effect

offers the AME subscriber another fabulous billet test that you must master.


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Uniword

An unbelievable book test. A real brainbuster. Description: Any person secretely choses ANY

WORD ON ANY PAGE. The Mentalist divines or predicts the word. Even more unbelievable

are the conditions. The spectator holds the book in his own hands and has an ABSOLUTE

FREE CHOISE of ANY PAGE and ANY WORD ON THE PAGE. It is the " Uniword ". The

Mentalist stands several feet away and never approaches the spectator while he is choosing

the word !! The test can be repeat. There are many different words on each page. In

presentation, any person is called to choose any page and to read off words on the page.

Many different words are called ! Next a second person is called to do the same secretly and

the Mentalist does his thing. He reads the mind ( and more ) ! " Uniword " is the strongest test

ever devised: No stooges, No force number, No memory or writing. The test is easy to do.

This is a one man effect. It can be done at any time any where without previous or before- the

show- preparation. The Mentalist does not know to what page the book has been opened yet

he can tell what is being read, word for word ! Uncanny ! You will receive an elegant hard

cover book of 137 pages, plus Al Mann's full instructions including presentation, patter and

bonus " Uncanny Uniword prediction" were the chosen word is found predicted in a sealed

envelope locked inside the Psychic's zipper pocket of his wallet. No carbon copy or fake

wallet ! All the material is NEW and never used. This was the real " book test " performed by

Al Mann in his show.

Voices From Hades

From the hard to find Zodiac Series. This is Book 3 in the

series.Mann says in this book. "I stumbled onto these secrets so I

can say they have never appeared in print before. This is

something new under the Sun! Any mentalist in possesion of

these secrets can baffle anyone silly!"

This treatise explains an arcane secret that Al Mann discovered.

You have people write messages on billets and fold them. The

billets are picked up with tweezers and set on fire. No you don't

dunk them in any chemical to make them transparent. The billets

are opaque. You pick them up with super thin tweezers and

NEVER touch them with your hands. They are not torn up first.

The folded billet is burned yet you can reveal the contents! This is a new method that will fool

the smartest magician! A dollar bill is borrowed, the spectator is ask to remember the last 4 or

5 digits. He folds it in quarters and you take it with tweezers never touching the bill with

your hand. The bill is set on fire and totally consumed. Yet you reveal the serial number! No

switching of the bill, only one bill used (of course you have to give the person back another

dollar for the one you burnt, but imagine this in a newspaper office!) Yes several people can

write on billets and you burn them ALL at the same time, yet you reveal the contents. YES

DO IT WITH SEALED ENVELOPES.Message are written on cards and sealed in envelopes.

The envelopes are burned with no switches. You reveal the contents. The envelope are totally

burned to ashes. This is not the old idea of having wide tongs that prevent the corner from

burning. You use thin tweezers a hold the envelope over a flame and it burns up yet you

know the complete contents!


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When Thoughts Collide

A design-duplication effect that works automatically! Mentalist shows his audience a book of

designs. He states that all the designs are different except one. He will not tell the audience

which one of the designs are duplicated in the book. But he is going to have the audience find

it by subliminal perception (or what have you.) Two pages in the book are chosen at random

by two members of the audience widely separated. They draw their chosen designs on slates.

When the slates are shown, they are identical! The book is ungimmicked. All the designs are

different. There is no forcing. Spectators have a free choice. You do not know ahead of time

what design will be chosen. A one-man effect. You will get a hardcover book of many designs

plus the instructions. Use your own slates.

The Wocus Legacy

The principle known as "The Wocus Legacy" was first

discovered and applied to billet work by Al Mann. The gimmick

is included.

Compiled by Steve Knight. With special thanks to Tim Furneaux

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