Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who kno[...]

A biography of Charles Fort, the 20th century's premier chronicler of the paranormal. This book provides the impetus for public interest in mysterious phenomena - he coined the word 'teleportation', gathered accounts of spontaneous human combustion, monsters, poltergeists, and what became known as U[...]

Killed in 1918 while performing his renowned illusion, Defying the Bullets, Chung Ling Soo's myriad deceptions began unraveling: He was really William Ellsworth Robinson, a former magicians' assistant. But for nearly a century, a swirl of more sinister secrets has surrounded him. For the first time,[...]