Intermediate 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...

Learn the In-The-Hands Faro Shuffle Ebook The ability to do perfect faro shuffles is a powerful weapon in the card magician’s arsenal of sleights. ...

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...

Mastering the Double Lift by Michael Close follows the format of our previous sleight-based ebooks on the faro shuffle and palming techniques. The...

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...

Closely Guarded Secrets contains some of my favorite routines, including The Luckiest Cards in Las Vegas (one of the strongest – and easiest – memd...

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 ...

The Well-tuned Magician: Analyzing and Refining Your Magic Routines, pulls aside the curtain, revealing the individual steps I take to help perform...

In Mastering False Shuffles and Cuts, you'll discover a novel approach to learning false shuffles and cuts that will enable you to acquire these sk...

Palming Volume One – Bottom Palm and Gambler’s Cop The Palming series is my attempt to rectify that problem as applied to a specific goal: secretl...

Palming Volume Two - The Top Palm  The top palm is one of the most powerful sleights in magic; mastery of this move opens the door to visual and m...

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

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

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

Skill Level: Beginner   The Effect: The spectator shuffles the deck. A prediction is shown and opened – it is the Three of Clubs. The spectator dec...

Close's Torn and Restored Card (UPDATED VERSION) This routine for the Torn and Restored Card effect was designed to solve many of the problems asso...