Michael Close Products

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

UPDATED VERSION! Instant Download(Both PDF and EPUB formats included with purchase.) WORKERS TWOMore Routines from My Professional Repertoire ...

UPDATED VERSION! Instant Download(Both PDF and EPUB formats included with purchase.) WORKERS THREEFurther Routines from the Professional Repertoir...

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

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.) The Complete Workers Ebook Michael Close's Workers series cont...

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...

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

Choose your version: Ebook or Audiobook  For the audiobook, you will receive a zipped folder with mp3 files. For the ebook, you will receive both E...

Learn the In-The-Hands Faro Shuffle Ebook NEW AND IMPROVED LOOK AND FORMAT! The ability to do perfect faro shuffles is a powerful weapon in the car...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Important: If you are purchasing more than one lesson, please select one lesson first. After choosing the date and time, you will be prompted to ...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

Give the gift of magic! Michael Close gift cards can be used on any product of service we offer on our website. Shopping for someone else but not ...

The Unbelievably Useful Comedy Prop (3 little hands per package) These are the last of this comedy props we have on "hand." They were difficult to ...

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

Tangram Playing Cards are a beautiful tribute to one of the most popular dissection puzzles in the world. Used as entertainment as early as the Son...

This item is discontinued at Ellusionist.com and we have only 2 left in stock. Shadow Masters are the third wonder in the Bicycle Masters Series.Th...

Don't wait for the wind to change - adjust your sails.A new, nautical-themed deck of premium playing cards - with intricate detail in every aspect ...

New Targeted Training Streaming Video! Understanding and applying the powerful theoretical principles of magic can elevate your performances beyond...

Subtly establish your identity as a magician with this charming Houdini Water Tank pin. Perfect for collectors or for anyone who wants to announce ...

Subtly establish your identity as a magician/mentalist with this charming Fortune-telling Booth pin. Perfect for collectors or for anyone who wants...

Subtly establish your identity as a magician with this charming Zig-zag girl pin. Perfect for collectors or for anyone who wants to announce to the...

Subtly establish your identity as a magician/illusionist with this charming Floating Head pin. Perfect for collectors or for anyone who wants to an...

The Effect: The magician shows a business card on which is drawn a crude map of the street on which he lives. He then asks a spectator to describe ...

Take your card magic to the next level with Mastering False Shuffles and Cuts, the new ebook from Michael Close. In this ebook, you'll discover a n...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Beginners Magic Starting Guide Getting into magic can be a little intimidating when you're just starting out. That's why we've put toge...