as he immerses himself in the fascinating subculture of the underground magic scene, trying to graduate through the life cycle of a magician (“trickster” is the earliest phase, followed by “sorcerer,” “oracle” then “sage”). After he retired from performing, he settled down in Brooklyn, New York, where he wrote more than thirty books on magic including Money Magic, Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, and Houdini’s Unmasking. The majority of the book instead follows Stone through New York, Las Vegas, L.A., China and the U.K. This classic book could be the most definitive ever written for the serious beginner who wants to learn professional card magic.
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In his defence, Stone describes how to do very few tricks (although he does detail one particularly impressive number, in which he throws a deck of cards into the audience, asks participants to pick six, then guesses each one without every touching the deck again). “This book could have easily been titled Magic is Awesome.” It all comes as a bit of a surprise to Stone, who doesn’t see his book as a how-to guide, but more of a “300-page love letter to magic,” he says. “There are people who still won’t shake my hand in New York, and I got excommunicated from my local magic society,” he says. Which would explain the trouble Stone now finds himself in with the underground magician community where he was once a proud member. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. A COMPLETE COURSE IN CARD MAGICIf you are If you are seriously interested in learning card magic, there is no better place to start than The Royal Road to Card Magic with R. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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