This is the story of the world and magic shows of Harry Blackstone (1885-1965), who entertained theatre-goers for over 50 seasons. Gifted with an electric prese

Growing up in the company of floating ladies, vanishing horses, and multiplying rabbits, Harry Blackstone learned to perform the most spectacular illusions from

The complete Blackstone story and the history of magic from the 1920s to today.

Harry Blackstone presented a full-evening production called the Show of 1001 Wonders. It lived up to that billing, as a stage-filling spectacle combining specta

Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro