Gene Grant: Phantini's Mental Key
Grant, Gene: Phantini's Mental Key
©1956 Ed Mellon
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 28 pages

Available as an eBook from Trickshop.com
Gene Grant: Phantini's Mental Key
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Comments: Edited by Kenny Wodward, Jr. Note the Trickshop revised edition eliminated the last section on Ed Mellon's Instru-Mental gimmick as this item is long off the market and no longer available. The Trickshop edition replaces that section with Grant's handling for several mental card classics along with instructions for his Delusion Deck. These changes are noted below.

Contents (from book ToC, page numbers from eBook version, descriptions added Jun 2022):

3 Introduction
4 Phantinism: Gene's approach to equivoque

7 Effects With Phantinism
7 A Mind And A Magazine: magazine test with borrowed magazine
7 Mental News Beat: as above, with a newspaper
8 A Mind ... A Book ... And A Word: version with a book
8 Incredible Insight #1: another newspaper version
8 Some Comments

9 More On Miracrypto
9 Miracrypto Advanced: update to the system described in Lost Book of Mental Secrets; mentalism using twelve charms, and no memory work needed

12 Mental Card Gems
12 Psychorama: Princess Card Trick with a twist
13 The Moving Hand Writes: mentalist determines two thought of cards
14 Divino: thought of card determined
14 The Eyes Of The Prophet: a no questions asked card prediction
15 A Date With Destiny: a fortune telling routine using business cards and playing cards
17 Another Version: card is predicted using the Infallible Prediction Tricks

19 Mental Potpourri
19 Incredible Insight #2: newspaper test
19 Miracelimination: elimination prediction with business cards
20 Dead End: living and dead person prediction
21 Impulse: mentalist and spectator each pick same of three names

22 Phantini On Instru-Mental (Note: this section not included in the Trickshop ebook edition, page numbers for this section are not accurate)
23 My Favorite Close-Up Method
24 Variation
25 Billet Prediction
26 Card On The Table
27 Instru-Mental Bill Reading
28 Phantini’s Pseudo Memory
29 Heat Test
30 Phantini’s Supreme Prediction
31 Lynn’s Prediction
32 Lynn’s Mental Coincidence

---End Original Book---
(following section is unique to the Trickshop edition)

22 The Open Prediction: a card prediction made in the open comes true
23 Think-a-Card: magician divines card thought of from a fanned deck
24 Miracle Discernment: variation
24 Mind Control: card mentalism
25 Phantini's Delusion Deck: an un-named thought of card is found missing from the deck and in the performer's pocket; using a special Enardoe deck, with the setup described

27 Appendix A
27 Delusion Deck Construction Using Single Enardoe Deck (Phillip W. Dennis)


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