SYNOPSIS:
Maelstrom is an expansive collection of Tom Stone’s original magic, creative experiments, performance pieces, and theoretical thinking. Drawing on his experience as a full-time professional, Stone covers both close-up and stage work, moving between polished routines, technical studies, short ideas, and explicitly identified works in progress. Rather than functioning simply as a trick manual, the book encourages readers to study how effects are conceived, structured, refined, and made personal. Its approximately 80 entries range from brief concepts to extensive treatments of billiard-ball magic and the signed-card plot.
Book Details:
Author/Creator: Tom Stone
Publisher: Hermetic Press
Edition: 1st
Publication Year: 2011
Subjects: Cards, Coins, Dice, Silks, Billiard Balls, Multiplying Bottles
Pages: 259
Skill Level: Advanced
Availability: Out of Print
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Preface — Håkan Berg (p. IX)
• What Is This Thing Called Book (p. XI)
• Of Dice and Men (p. 3)
• Silver & Sorcery (p. 7)
• The Safe Bullet-Catch (p. 24)
• Wet Russian (p. 25)
• DacheBox (p. 29)
• Silks from Another Century (p. 30)
• Wired (p. 31)
• Ceiling Thoughts (p. 31)
• Shivers (p. 31)
• Vanishing Sefalaljia (p. 31)
• Burn Remedy (p. 32)
• Brutus’s Gift (p. 33)
• Sole Survivor in 3-D (p. 35)
• White Lies (p. 39)
• Clink-Catch (p. 41)
• Bottled Up (p. 43)
• Bottled Thoughts (p. 47)
• Stirring Up the Still (p. 47)
• Don’t Stare at My Bottom (p. 54)
• Glasswhere? (p. 55)
• Glass–Bottle–Can (p. 57)
• Multiplying Glasses (p. 59)
• Redneck Remedy (p. 61)
• Prediction Ajar (p. 65)
• Siamese Book-Test (p. 67)
• The Forbidden Palm (p. 69)
• Oh No! Thimbles (p. 77)
• The Ultimate Sub Trunk (p. 82)
• Paper Bag Cut (p. 83)
• Sentient Sand (p. 87)
• Chinese Lubricant (p. 90)
• Amore Morel (p. 91)
• Chairport (p. 96)
• Eye of the Last Dragon (p. 97)
• Peaks and Valleys (p. 104)
• Mitosis Maneuver (p. 107)
• Negative Structure (p. 110)
• Back to de Kolta (p. 112)
• The Shell as Topit (p. 113)
• Shell Lapping (p. 115)
• Ball Mélange (p. 117)
• Ball Climax (p. 119)
• Bank Naught (p. 121)
• Psychic Losery (p. 122)
• Weightmaster (p. 122)
• Dance Shtick (p. 123)
• Mental Posterior (p. 126)
• Electro-cute (p. 127)
• SloMoSub (p. 130)
• Tesla’s Knot (p. 131)
• Derringer (p. 133)
• Eggs from Bombay (p. 135)
• 50% a Magician? (p. 147)
• Quick Memo (p. 148)
• Paperback Writer (p. 149)
• Waiting for a Sign (p. 151)
• Sign of the Count (p. 152)
• Crossed Sign (p. 153)
• Time Operator I (p. 154)
• Time Operator II (p. 158)
• Signed Transformation (p. 161)
• Sign of the Boxer (p. 162)
• Homer’s Case (p. 165)
• Occhamman Card (p. 166)
• Occhamman Now! (p. 171)
• Daryl-Simon Convincing Control (p. 173)
• Wooden Sign (p. 178)
• The Collective Blink (p. 180)
• Hip Hip Hurray! (p. 189)
• The One-Handed Top Change (Max Milton) (p. 187)
• Sir Offalot (p. 192)
• Challenge in Silk (p. 193)
• Well-Timed Miracle (p. 202)
• The Tutorial (p. 203)
• Going Bananas (p. 206)
• Things That Go Cluck in the Night (p. 209)
• The Voice of the Public (p. 222)
• Glitching the Aces (p. 223)
• The Hat Trick (p. 225)
• Synonymax (p. 229)
• Tripodal by Sundown (p. 239)
• Mental Pursuit (p. 237)
• Queen of the Quiz (p. 241)
• The Quiz Show (p. 245)
• Acknowledgements (p. 257)
• Publishing History (p. 259)
