We have all been mystified by the arcane arts of stage magicians. A particular source of mystery are those starnge people able to perform amazing feats just feet away, the magicians who perform “close-up magic. For your utter enjoyment, here are a few tidbits to allow you to learn to perform mystifying magic in the comfort of your audience. Please enjoy!

Parlor Magic
100 Amazing Magic Tricks with Everyday Objects
101 Mindfreaks with Cards
250 Parlor Tricks or Magic Made Easy
Bobo’s Coint Magic
Applause Winniing Routines by Senor Mardo
David Blaine’s Very Own Magic Tricks
Impromptu Mentalism
Magic Tricks For The Beginning Magician
Miscellaneous Magic Tricks
More Tips on Tricks
Scarne on Card Tricks
Sleight of Hand with Cards
Split Decision Card Prediction
The Colourful Card Trick
The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
The Persistent Joker
The SterlingCups and BallsRoutine
The unshuffle and other card tricks
Thirty-Two Impromptu Card Tricks

There is another side of magic. One less prone to being seen on stage for enjoyment and more prone to be practiced in the dead of night, with owl’s screeching in the background and a moon partially hidden by ominous, black clouds. Arts practiced by few to invoke spirits to do ones bidding. Here is a collection, a compendium, of the Black Arts. Read them if you dare.

Occult Magick
A Practical Guide to Witchcraft and Magic Spells
An Encyclopedia of Charms, Spells, Formulas, and Magical Rites
Azande Witchcraft, Epistemological Relativism and the Problem of the Criterion
Black Witchcraft
Book of magic, with instructions for invoking spirits
An Introduction to Enochian Magick
Evocation of Bethor
Mastering Witchcraft
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM)
Necronomicon
Planetary Magick
The Practice of Magical Evocation
Sigils In Medieval And Renaissance Occult Text
Summoning Spirits
The Demonic Bible
The Book of the Witch Moon
The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden Vol I
The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden Vol II
The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden Vol III
The Little Book of Witchcraft
The Supreme Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram (SIRP)
The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbok
The Witch’s Master Grimoire: An Encyclopedia of Charms, Spells, Formulas, and Magical Rites
Three Books of Occult Philosophy, or of Magick