Concerning the Palming of Cards
Galsworthy gives a fairly comprehensive instructional overview of the most useful, most recognized palming techniques for cards.
Reviews
Expert assessments of new tricks, books, gear, and performances.
Trick Review
Odyssey
A beautiful travel magazine which is, in fact, the Swiss Army Knife of mentalism effects. Woven into the pages of the magazine are 10 intriguing mentalism and perceptual effects.
Trick Review
Unseen Force Pro
Unseen Force Pro is the latest system to improve your thread work, and TCC has done a remarkable job with this gimmick.
Trick Review
Magic Lotto
Here’s multi-phased close-up prediction that will delight a diligent beginner, and is surprising enough to find a spot in a pro’s performance.
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Stab in the Dark
A page is freely chosen from a book. A sharp knife stabs the book. The knife is pulled straight down, cutting through every single page, except one!! Impossibly, the page your audience thought of is clearly seen impaled on the knife!
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Together Forever
Two cards are fused into one card that is not simply card-shaped, but slightly off-set, as if the cards are in a spread, creating an impossible magic moment.
Reviews
Mind, Myth & Magick
The seminal text on mentalism is back in print. Find out why this is the go-to book for any serious student on the subject.
Book Review
You Do Cards?!
This book contains material well within the reach of any intermediate close-up performer. The routines seem to be designed with the restaurant worker in mind.
Book Review
Calico
Calico is composed entirely of tricks using coins that look visibly different. The tricks shared here seem impossible even to someone who has read Bobo and Roth.
Show Review
More Than Slightly Superhuman
British heavyweight mentalist Derren Brown is back on another sold-out U.K. tour with his latest show, Only Human. This review is of a performance in Bromley in April 2025.
Book Review
Saving Magic: David Price & The Making of Egyptian Hall
This “expert” biography assumes that the pillars of 20th-century stage magic are known to you: Kellar, Thurston, Blackstone, Dante. But it tells the story of 20th-century magic from the less famous side—the Great Depression, World War II, live performance giving way to film and television.
Book Review
Saving Magic: David Price & The Making of Egyptian Hall
This “expert” biography assumes that the pillars of 20th-century stage magic are known to you: Kellar, Thurston, Blackstone, Dante. But it tells the story of 20th-century magic from the less famous side—the Great Depression, World War II, live performance giving way to film and television.
Trick Review
Knotted
The idea of having a piece of rope lasso a selected card has been around for many years, but this is a really nice updated handling and gimmick from Rubén Vilagrand.