Book Author: Harry Lorayne
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How to Develop a super-power memory
SYNOPSIS: How to Develop a Super-Power Memory by Harry Lorayne is a classic guide to memory training that teaches practical techniques for remembering names, faces, numbers, speeches, appointments, lists, and other everyday information. Using Lorayne’s association and visualization methods, the book demonstrates how anyone can dramatically improve their memory through practice. Although not a magic book,…
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Deck-Sterity
SYNOPSIS: Deck-Sterity is Harry Lorayne’s fourth major card magic book and continues his tradition of teaching practical, commercial card routines designed for real-world performance. The book contains more than forty effects, sleights, utility moves, and presentations, ranging from ingenious double-lift techniques and color changes to Ace routines, poker demonstrations, revelations, sandwich effects, and mental card mysteries.…
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close-up card magic
SYNOPSIS: Harry Lorayne’s Close-Up Card Magic is considered one of the foundational texts of modern card magic. First published in 1962, it teaches a carefully curated collection of practical, audience-tested routines that emphasize strong effects, natural handling, and commercial performance. Lorayne’s conversational teaching style makes even advanced sleights approachable while stressing timing, presentation, and the importance of…
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best of friends
SYNOPSIS: These pages are crammed full of good to great to terrific magic. By great people. Over 120 card effects, routines, ideas-including Ace Sandwich, Future Change, Fast Stack, Sum Hummer, Fascinating Pair, Sweet Four-Card Change, Vanishing Aces, Strategy, Unshuffled, Reversatility, Thats Incredible, Miracle Time, Force Feed…from people like Tom Mullica, Martin Nash, Larry Jennings, Charles…
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Harry Lorayne’s apocalypse series
SYNOPSIS: Harry Lorayne’s Apocalypse is a five-volume collection compiling the complete run of one of the most influential magic magazines ever published. Spanning over two decades, the series features thousands of tricks, sleights, routines, essays, and performance ideas contributed by many of magic’s greatest creators. Covering virtually every branch of close-up and stand-up magic, Apocalypse is widely regarded…
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afterthoughts
SYNOPSIS: Harry Lorayne wrote Afterthoughts in 1975, while at the center of the thriving New York City magic scene. In typical Lorayne fashion, this book is filled with workable material described in a clear and friendly manner. Highlights include a fan steal, innovative lapping techniques, and the now classic Tally-Ho Ace Locator. Most importantly, there…
