Publisher's Synopsis
Over 80 years in the making. Abbott's Dark Matter Secrets is simply the greatest compilation of "spooky" magic effects ever assembled. The ultimate Halloween magic book, Abbott's Dark Matter Secrets has well over 100 effects (142 is our unofficial count) and includes Stage Illusions (complete with workshop plans), Side Show Illusions (again, complete with workshop plans), Parlor effects, Escape Effects, Mentalism Effects, etc. Dark Matter Secrets is Abbott Magic's expression of spooky magic that it has sold in one form or another over the last 80 years. All of the items in Dark Matter were (at one time or another) part of Abbott publications either in book form, magazine form, workshop form, trick form, or instructional form. Some of these effects are very old, some are very recent. Some are geared toward professional magicians and professional wood workers, some you can do right after you read them. Some are downright gruesome while others are geared toward comedy. All are designed to be presented in that spookiest time of the year - Halloween. Not just for magicians, but for anyone who decorates for Halloween and wants to add a little "magic" to the displays. Whether simply decorating your den or a full blown haunted house, Dark Matter Secrets will enhance the Halloween experience. While many of these magic effects are designed to be performed for children, this book in general is NOT for children and its contents should be kept from them. This book and its contents are also not for the general public information. For this reason, its secrets should be carefully guarded. Below is a list of all the effects you will receive in this one publication. Alien Intruder (Burned Alive) Astrologia Bewitched Silks Book of the Dead Box of Satan Buzz Saw Illusion Casadega Cabinet Catch a Ghost Choplevi Come Good Spirits Come Good Spirits 2 Cyclops Devil Card Devil Illusion Dramatique Einstein's Bermuda Triangle Ethereal Message Cabinet Farmer and the Witch Floating Candle Floating Dancing Silk Floating Handkerchief Fortune Telling with Cards Fraidy Cat Spooky Patter Frame of Life and Death Frankenstein Release Patter Gambol of the Ghost Ghost Materialization Ghost Slates Ghost Walks Escape Grin Skull Guillotine Guillotine on Wheels Handy Halloweener Hathaway Sefalaljia Haunted Flower Pot Haunted House Haunted Mill Haunted Window Head in Web Headless Woman Hellstromism Hippity Hop Skeletons How to Make a Monster Invulnerable lady It Floats Impromptu Devils Hank Knife Through Thumb Living and Dead Tests (12) Living Head Mabel Illusion Magic Mirror Magic Mummy (12) Magician Ghost and Girl Man Without a Head Medium Knows It Miracles With Spikes Mirror of Fate Modernistic Amputation Moth and the Flame Mummy Cloth of the Nile New System Backdrop Phantasmo Illusion Phone ESP Pogo Ball Explored Radio Spirit Cabinet Rapping Hand (Robot) Rapping Hand (Spirit) Rapping Hand Patter Rising Broom Rising Cards Closeup Satans Seat Second Sight Act Seeing through a Girl Sefalaljia Shredder Illusion Skullduggery Slow Motion Silk Serpent Snake Basket Snake Basket Routine Sorcars Magic Circle Spider and the Pip Spider Card Mystery Spider Girl Illusion Spirit Bell Patter Spirit Cabinet Act Spirit Cabinet Club Act Spirit Cabinet Rapp Act Spirit Floating Table Spirit Glass Spirit Photography Spirit Rope Tie Spirit Seance Spirit Slate Effects Spirit Slates No Fake Spirit Slates Phantom Signer Spirit Tie Knots Spirit Ventriloquist Routine Spooky Dancing Slippers Spooky Message Spooky Toothpicks Starology Supernatural Mentalism Sword of Damocles Talking Skull Mechanical Talking Skull Simplicity Talking Skull Routine Thurston Spirit Cabinet Trapped in Space Ultra Violet Flying Carpet Vampire Block Patter Wandering Skeleton Wire and Rope Ties Witch Broom Rope Illusion Witches Oven X The Unknown Quantity X-Ray Human Zombie Zombie Device Act Zombie Scary Patter Zombie Tips 2 BONUS TOPICS -Magic as Halloween Decorations -Commercial Magic Comments
