Lever, Derek: Stranger Than
Fiction ©1978 Supreme Magic Publications, U.K. Softcover, saddle-stitched, 7.5x10", 36 pages |
Image courtesy eBay seller SwingShift56 |
Comments: "72 sensational reputation-making stunts"
Contents (from book ToC, numbers are not page numbers):
I Foreword (Henry Francis)
ii Author's Note and Publisher's Warning
1 Fire Eating
2 Introduction
3 Chinese Fire-eating
4 Fiery Tongue
5 Human Volcano
6 Small Volcano
7 Fire at the Fingertips
8 Hot Fruit
9 Ball of Fire on Tongue
10 Human Brazier
11 Eating a Lighted Candle
12 Wheel of Fire
13 Eating Burning Wax
14 Satan's Bubbles
15 Drinking Burning Oil
16 The Burnt and Restored Handkerchief
17 Fireproofing a Handkerchief
18 Fire From Water
19 The Lamplighter
20 Spontaneous Combustion
21 Devil's Smoke Trick
22 Message of Fire
23 Soft Iron
24 Devil's Marbles
25 Coloured Fire
26 Burning Cake in Mouth
27 Yogi Fire
28 Advanced Fire-eating
29 Chewing Molten Lead
30 Licking a Red Hot Bar
31 Pouring Molten Lead on the Hands
32 Fire on the Body
33 Firewalking
34 Fire Proofs
35 Feats of the Body
36 Sword Walking
37 Dancing on Broken Glass
38 Breaking Iron Spikes With the Teeth
39 Breaking a Stake on the Chest
40 Bending Iron Bars under the Chin
41 Cantilever Bridge
42 Changing Weight
43 An Executioner's Nightmare
44 Sword Swallowing
45 Swallowing Lighted Neon Tubes
46 An Opening Stunt
47 Chewing Broken Glass
48 Faked Method
49 The Bed of Nails
50 Hammering a Nail int the Face
51 Car on Head
52 The Human Bomb
53 Stopping the Pulse at Will
54 Raising the Temperature
55 The X-Ray
56 Blood-Red
57 Vanishing Needle
58 Needled
59 Smash!
60 To Perspire at Will
61 Human Pincushion
62 Advanced Human Pincushion
63 Human Pincushion - Faked
64 Snake Charming
65 The Principles of Yoga
66 Hypnosis and Mass Hypnosis
67 Genuine Hypnosis
68 Mass Hypnosis and Stage Hypnosis
69 Various Hypnotic Tests
70 Inducing Rigidity
71 Inducing Paralysis
72 Induced Arm Raising
73 Hypnotizing a Rabbit
74 Instantaneous Hypnosis
75 Publicity Stunts
76 The Third Hand
77 Hypnotic Magnetism
78 Which Hand?
79 Tell the Truth