The Pocket Guide to Magic

Plot

King, Bart: The Pocket Guide to Magic
©2009, Gibbs Smith
Paperback, 271 pages
ISBN: 13: 978-1-4236-0637-6
ISBN: 10: 1-4236-0637-X
Contents

Acknowledgements................................6
Introduction............................................7
Hogwarts is for sissies............................12
Playing the part.......................................16
Neat feats and florid flourishs...............29
Timeless wonders through history.........46
Secrets.......................................................72
Monry magic.............................................82
Diabolical magic of the black sort.........100
Mental magic...........................................117
Fortune-telling........................................148
Weird names and acts............................160
Card magic...............................................168
Battle of the magicians...........................194
That VooDoothat you do........................205
Houdini....................................................211
Delightful effects....................................223
Magicians for Dismembership...............240
Movie magic............................................250
Merlin and other magic makers............260


Abracadabra ! Hocus-pocus! Allakazam! Happis crappis! Say it together now―magic! Take a peek inside the magician’s secret wardrobe to discover the tricks of the trade, the tales of derring-do, and the people who made the magic happen.

Demystifying the mystical is the popular, raucous, ready-to-trick-his-own-mother Bart King! But what, you may ask, can Bart do? He can show the ways of the most secretive magicians in the world.

This guide includes ways to:

Improve street cred with sneaky tricks.
Discover how some of the most popular illusions were created.
Saw a woman in half and then swallow the sword.
Bart King is the author of The Big Book of Boy Stuff, The Big Book of Girl Stuff, The Pocket Guide to Brilliance, The Pocket Guide to Mischief, The Pocket Guide to Games, The Pocket Guide to Boy Stuff, and The Pocket Guide to Girl Stuff. Bart lives in Portland, Oregon, where he stupefies his neighbors with his famous Balducci Levitation.

20 magic tricks, secrets of the trade, and the twisted tales of those who make them happen!