An English Professor Harding University, Michael's passion is collecting and writing about magic. For 40 years, he's written numerous articles for magic periodicals and has also published 2 books.
How can there be never-before published photos of Houdini?
The personal challenge and advertisement scrapbook by the Great One. A must for Houdini collectors.
Proof of one man’s passion and pursuit to preserve magic history.
Taking another look at the famous magician’s untimely death. Was it what we thought it was?
For anyone who loves magic posters, this is Ken Trombly’s gift to you
Connie Boyd collects her profiles of female magicians into a single volume, capturing a slow-but-seismic gender shift
The journal of magic history celebrates 20 years, with the latest review.
The 20th anniversary issue of Gibecière has more pages, more articles, and more expert contributors than any previous issue
I’ve read many Houdini biographies, and the experience often feels like watching a favorite movie, where I can quote the lines and know exactly what is coming next. This book is different
A groundbreaking set of books exploring the complicated relationship of animals and their human partners.
From the early 19th century to the present, magicians have devised ingenious methods to defy gravity on stage. Intrigued by this graceful form of illusion, David Haversat has assembled a sumptuous visual record of its evolution.
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has woven together artifacts and ephemera of magicians, seance mediums, spirit photographers, visual artists, and ghost-show operators that explore our multi-faceted fascination with the dead.