This is the Fresno Magic Club’s growing digital card catalogue of magic books, tables of contents, and indexes. It is designed to help magicians search across classic and modern magic literature by topic, title, author, routine, prop, or technique.
Search for subjects like Thumb Tip, Cups and Balls, Billets, Memorized Deck, Card Control, Coin Vanish, False Shuffle, and more. As the catalogue grows, this page will become the main entrance to the club’s digital library.
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Maelstrom
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…
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Magic by Misdirection
SYNOPSIS: Magic by Misdirection is Dariel Fitzkee’s systematic study of how magicians influence an audience’s attention, interpretation, expectations, and memory to create deception. Rather than treating misdirection as simply making spectators look elsewhere, Fitzkee examines the broader psychology behind magical conviction: establishing normal conditions, disguising method, controlling attention, encouraging assumptions, and shaping how an effect is…
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Magie Duvivier
SYNOPSIS: Magie Duvivier presents the distinctive close-up magic of French magician Dominique Duvivier, written and organized by Jon Racherbaumer. The book explores Duvivier’s unconventional approach to constructing magic, combining highly visual effects, playful presentations, unusual methods, and unexpected transformations. Although card magic forms the heart of the collection—including Duvivier’s celebrated “Printing” routine—the book also contains material…
