How Houdini Died

How Houdini Died

HOW HOUDINI DIED. Manager Declares Illness Was Caused by Blow Though, according to the doctors who operated upon him, the death of Harry Houdini, the famous magician, was due to peritonitis supervening upon appendicitis, his manager, Mr. Stuckel, blames a student for...
Bullet Catch Documentary – The Trick With The Gun

Bullet Catch Documentary – The Trick With The Gun

What happens when friends risk their lives – and friendship – for the sake of a magic trick? The Bullet Catch: It’s the most dangerous illusion in magic. Fourteen men and women have died performing it. In The Trick With the Gun magician Scott Hammell and author...
The Difference between Kids and Adult magic

The Difference between Kids and Adult magic

Having performed adult magic for many years, many years ago, I decided to focus my attentions on performing kid’s magic thinking it would be similar but with just colourful props to substitute the cards. I was wrong.   More often than not, adult magicians look...
Steve Spill, When Magic Tricks Just Don’t Work

Steve Spill, When Magic Tricks Just Don’t Work

These are some cherry picked stories from my professional life in where I had an idea, worked up a method to do the trick, got the props together, scripted the routine, and rehearsed it.  But on stage, in front of real breathing strangers, for one reason or another,...
5 More Top Tips For Magicians, From The Past

5 More Top Tips For Magicians, From The Past

Top Tip Six: Always double check your equipment. TRIED TO CATCH A BULLET ON A PLATE – KILLED IN ATTEMPT But Another Magician to Try the Feat! Within the last decade, a man familiar to the world as Chung Ling Soo, but known to his intimates as Bill Robinson, of...
Chung Ling Soo’s Fate

Chung Ling Soo’s Fate

Death Came From Overlook Man of Mystery’s Greatest Mystery Chung Ling Soo’s Fate Told by Vox, the Magicians Trick Master. So the Governor is dead! No more will Chung Ling Soo mystify with his magic. As he lived so he died – a man of mystery, and the greatest mystery...
5 Top Tips For Magicians, From The Past

5 Top Tips For Magicians, From The Past

Top Tip One: Evening Dress is compulsory (unless you’re following in the footsteps of William Robinson aka Chung Ling Soo). FOR SALE. Evening Dress Suit, with extra white vest. 5ft 10in. in height, medium build. New condition. Price £2. Two Opera Hats. Good...