Advanced Magic

A READING LIST FOR THE STUDENT OF CLOSE-UP MAGIC Many years ago, I prepared a list of books that would be beneficial for anyone who wanted to excel...

Skill Level: Intermediate The Road to Riffsville contains my current thinking on what I dubbed “Jazzing,” that is, improvising with a memorized de...

Enhance Your Memorized Deck Skills Elevate your magic to the next level with this useful, downloadable PDF from Michael Close. This comprehensive P...

The Paradigm Shift Two Volume Ebook Set features three groundbreaking essays that will change the way you think about your magic, eleven beautiful...

Canadian Matt Disero is a busy full-time professional comedy magician, whose career takes him around the world. Matt has a quarter-century of perfo...

Memdeck - The Next Step You’ve put in the hours, memorized a stack, and can now perform a few basic effects with it. What’s the next step? What s...

Tom Ewing is the National Historian for The Society of American Magicians, and is long-time contributor to its magazine, M-U-M. He and David Havers...

UPDATED VERSION! Instant Download(Both PDF and EPUB formats included with purchase.) The Complete Workers Ebook Michael Close's Workers series cont...

Jim Kleefeld is a full-time performer who presents hundreds of school assembly programs each year in schools all over Ohio (http://www.jimkleefeld....

David Seebach is a professional illusionist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has more than forty years of performing experience (http://davidseebach.c...

Attention magicians of all skill levels: It’s time to get your act together! After being in magic for a few years, most enthusi...

Skill Level: ALL The concept of T.O.M. (Three Operational Methods) was first introduced to the magic world by Stewart James. Stewart came to the ...

My new ebook, The Well-tuned Magician: Analyzing and Refining Your Magic Routines, pulls aside the curtain, revealing the individual steps I take t...

Memorized deck work continues to be a hot topic. However, with the growing number of stacks available and the staggering amount of bad information...

UPDATED! Palming Volume Three – The Side Steal The quality of instruction offered here will quickly put you on the road toward mastering this most...

This advanced training examines many of the key aspects of advanced memorized deck magic. You will learn the five key aspects of advanced memdeck,...

In Review This searchable database contains all of Michael Close’s MAGIC magazine review columns from May 1995 through December 2005. Over 1300 pag...

  This training session will provide strategies that will help you overcome your fear of palming. ​​​​​​​Palming is one of the cornerstones of in...

Magic depends on disseminating misinformation – in other words, lying. Learn to use this important tool with rapier-like precision in this informa...

UPDATED VERSION! Instant Download(Both PDF and EPUB formats included with purchase.) WORKERS FIVE At Long Last The Concluding Ultimate Installment ...

UPDATED VERSION! Instant Download(Both PDF and EPUB formats included with purchase.) WORKERS ONERoutines from the Professional Repertoire of Micha...

The Paradigm Shift Volume One features groundbreaking essays; beautiful, deceptive sleights; and commercial, devious routines you will enjoy perfor...

The Paradigm Shift Volume Two features more innovative sleight-of-hand techniques and routines that will baffle the most discriminating of audienc...

UPDATED VERSION! Instant Download(Both PDF and EPUB formats included with purchase.) WORKERS FOURYet Still More Further Routines from the Professio...