Bordner, Greg: Tops Treasury of Halloween Magic, Special Edition
©2011 Abbott Magic Co., Colon, MI
e-Book, 274 pages
Tops Treasury of
              Halloween Magic, Special Edition
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Greg Bordner (Editor): Tops Treasury of Halloween Magic

Comments: "a collection of Halloween magic and articles that appeared in past issues of Tops magazine between 1936 and 1994." Available from Abbott's and Lybrary.com as an e-book (PDF format).

Contents:

9 Spooky Magic Effects: Effects you can make
10 Catch A Ghost (Abbott Magic Co)
13 Spider Card Mystery (Lu Brent)
15 Radio Spirit Cabinet (Abbott Magic)
18 Phantom Color Change (Jimmie Wilson)
19 Comedy Snake Basket (George Johnstone)
20 New System Backdrop Contributed (Karlin)
25 Cyclops (Abbott Magic)
32 Impromptu Devils Hank (Jack Yeager)
33 Scary Patter For The Zombie (Richard Holmes)
35 Choplevi (Richard Holmes)
37 Halloween Fraidy Cat Rabbit Patter (Gene Gordon)
38 Floating Candle (Murdon The Magician)
40 Wire And Rope Ties (Abbott Magic)
44 No Fake Spirit Slates (John L Anderson)
45 Sorcars Magic Circle (Sorcar)
48 Ethereal Message Cabinet (Howard P Albright)
51 Seeing Through A Girl (Abbott Magic)
53 The Sword Of Damocles (Ken De Courcy)
55 Thurston Spirit Cabinet (Robert Olson)
58 Book Of The Dead (Stewart James)
60 Trapped In Space (Eddie Joseph)
63 The Box Of Satan (Joseph Rukus)
64 The Witches Oven (Dale Salwak)
66 The Haunted Mill (Abbott Magic)
68 The Gambol Of The Ghost (Harold Sterling)
69 Living And Dead Test (Ken De Courcy)
70 Drakons Spirit Slates (Prince Drakon)
72 The Spider And The Pip (Lu Brent)
75 The Spirits Tie Knots (UF Grant)
76 Spirit Floating Table (JB Maxwell)
77 Guillotine On Wheels (Bob Lynn)
78 Floating Handkerchief (Abbott Magic)
80 The Haunted House (Percy Abbott)
83 The Devil Card (Abbott Magic)
85 Spirit Hand (Abbott Magic)
88 Spirit Glass (Abbott Magic)
90 Club Spirit Cabinet (Abbott Magic)
92 Mirror Of Fate (Henry Durkins)
94 Phantasmo Illusion (Abbott Magic)
99 Ghost Slates (North Bigbee)
101 The Bewitched Silks (Wm E Cox Jr.)
103 X The Unknown Quantity (Stewart James)
105 Spooky Dancing Slippers (Abbott Magic)
109 Dramatique (Tom Palmer, Effect by Paul L Britt)
113 Slow Motion Silk Serpant (UF Grant)
114 Spooky Toothpicks (Duke Stern)
115 Vampire Block Patter (Howard Melson)
116 Grin Skull (Karlin)
117 Satans Seat (Tom Palmer)
120 Frankenstein Cube On Release Patter (Gene Gordon)
121 Effects With Common Spirit Slates (Percy Abbott)
123 How To Make A Monster (George “Frankenstein” Mcathy)
126 Head In Web (Clettis V Musson)
128 Hippity Hop Skeletons (Dale Salwak)
130 A Hathaway Sefalaljia (Kenny Woodward Jr)
132 Phone Esp (Phillip Morris)
133 Grants Magic Mirror (UF Grant)
134 Handy Halloweener (North Bigbee)
136 It Floats (Mortimer The Magician - M John Ruger)
139 Ultra Violet Flying Carpet (Sorcar)
141 Shades (David Harkey)
144 Supernatural Mentalism (Mickey Hades)

147 Halloween Stories And Reviews: various articles
148 He Floated Ghosts Before Zombies (Neil Foster)
150 Thurstons Demon (Robert Olson)
152 Broomsticks And Black Cats (Eddie Clever)
155 Winchester Mystery House (Dorothy Smith)
157 Magic And Mayhem At Midnight (Walter Hudson)
160 Ray-Monds Midnight Horror Show (Walter Hudson)
164 Raymonds Voodoo Show (Bill Pitts)
165 Grand Guignol 1963 (Bob Nelson)
167 Psychic Science Of 39 (Mcgill)
170 Silkini Spook Show (Walter Hudson)
172 Detroit Magi Houdini Séance (Demon Rembrandt)
174 William Morton – He Does Strange Things (Howard Melson)
176 Illusions In The Night Review (Mark Holstein)
179 Houdini Seances Futile (Eddie Clever)
182 Paul Stadleman Visits Bell Witch (Abbott Magic)
183 Crystal Gazing (Mcgill)
186 Topicalize Your Act (Joe Ganger)
188 Mentalism And Things Psychic (Bob Nelson)
190 Grand Guignol 1973 (Walter Hudson)
192 Black And White Magic (George Johnstone)
194 Shiels On Spookers (Tony Shiels)
196 Séance Claims Houdini Returned (George Johnstone)
197 The Amazine Dr Marquis (Walter Hudson)
199 Lost In The Forest (John Sherwood)
201 Bill Neff Review 1944 (Howard Melson)
203 Bill Neff Baffled Me 1953 (Tommy Windsor)
204 Bill Neff Remembered 1973 (Walter Hudson)
206 Graveyard Doggerels (Bob Brethen)
209 Virgils Den Of Living Nightmares (Ms Mahendra)
210 Chinese Chopper (Joe Ganger)
213 Silkini’S Asylum Of Horrors (Walter Hudson)
215 How To Shrink Human Heads (Percy Abbott)
218 Shadows (Eddie Clever)
221 The Great Dunninger (Karrell Fox)

223 Rest In Peace Magic Tricks: Abbott's advertisements for spooky effects of the past
224 1936 Jogestja Living And Dead Test
225 1936 Spirit Pictures
226 1937 Flaming Handkerchiefs
227 1938 Slate Stunts
227 1939 Durbin Cabinets228
229 1939 Phantastic Phial
230 1940 Phant-O-Dial
231 1940 Reilly’S Spirit Clock
232 1941 Look Out Spider
233 1941 Mummy Cloth
234 1941 Radio Spirit Cabinet
234 1941 Shrunken Living Head Illusion235
236 1941 The Meteor Card Trick
237 1943 Head Vanish To Skull Illusion
238 1943 Painless Surgery
239 1943 Phantom Clock
240 1944 Talking Skull
241 1945 Phantom Card Stand
242 1946 Ghost Card
243 1946 Skeleton Key
244 1946 Spykher Illusion
245 1946 Strange Cabinet Of Deodar
246 1946 Witches Wine
247 1947 The Ghost Glass
247 1947 Pharaohs Blade248
249 1947 Spirit Spooks
250 1948 Blood Out Of A Stone
251 1948 Devil Chips
252 1948 Idento
253 1948 Invisible Card
254 1948 Jonah Card
254 1948 Miniature Skull255
256 1948 The Spirit Writes
257 1949 Disembodied Queen
258 1949 Jumbo Snake In The Basket
259 1949 Mummy Suspension
260 1949 Spooky Kut
261 1953 The Mystic 13
262 1952 Bursts Of Flame
262 1953 Ghostly Tumbler263
264 1953 Peculiar Tumbler
265 1953 The Fakir
266 1955 Flame-Ette
267 1955 Haunted Penny
268 1955 Living Marionettes
269 1955 Watch The Spot
270 1956 Devils Card Case
271 1956 End Wand
272 1956 Meteor Flames
273 1956 Spirit Messages
274 1957 Snake Eyes



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