magicians

Introduces famous magicians throughout history and describes some of their best-known tricks.

Contains two novels: in "Myth-ing Persons," Skeeve travels to another dimension to find his missing partner, Aahz, and in "Little Myth Marker," Skeeve wins a high- stakes poker game and ends up with a monster who has a tendency to cause trouble.

When Orbix's worst student magician runs into a valuable Majyk supply, he receives unwelcome attention from a jealous wizard, a demon, and others.

Maximillian Delacorte was once the world?s greatest stage magician. Now a recluse, suffering from a mysterious disease, he lures his family and associates to his lonely estate for an afternoon of magic, madness, and revenge. Bodies appear and disappear without warning, severed heads speak words of hate, and nothing is ever quite what it appears. As grisly tricks lead to ever more surprising twists, not even the Great Delacorte can tell where illusion ends?and murder begins.

An introduction to the life of Harry Houdini, one of the most famous magicians of all time.

Highlights the life and career of one of the world's greatest escape artists and magicians.

In 1935, living at a lighthouse near San Francisco, a lonely nine-year-old boy inadvertently summons a magician who teaches him the secret of flying.

A biography of the mysterious magician, focusing on his great escapes, wondrous illusions, crusade against spiritualism, and attempt to communicate with his wife after his death.

Highlights the lives and careers of magicians Doug Henning, Robert-Houdin, John Henry Anderson, Alexander Herrmann, and Houdini.

Easy-to-follow text and illustration describe how Harry Houdini was inspired by the circus, and convinced his brother to attempt tightrope walking and rope tricks in a local barn.