Melville, Leslie: Magictales ©2005 Leslie Melville, Leaping Lizard Magic, FL Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 170 pages ISBN: 1-932086-78-1

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Comments: Illustrations by Bill Thompson. Storytelling Magic. Routines are fully detailed with hints and tips on presentation. This book was later collected along with Magictales Two into a single, hardcover edition.

Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword (Ed Solomon)
Introduction

7 A Young Man's Meeting With Death! (An easy to do card trick).
11 How To Exorcise a Vampire!
15 A Witch, A Pill and A Bottle!
19 Frying Knots!
25 The Strange Tale of Mr. Tall and Mr. Small
29 Ahmed's Terrible Temptation
35 Two Little Evacuees
39 The Friendly Witch and Her Linking Pins (A comic rhyming routine for the Slydini Pins).
43 The Blushing Palms of Samoa!
45 Merlin's Six Tarot Repeat
49 Which Came First? Egg on Fan: with details on making an egg skin
57 Painless Parker and The Necklace of Teeth!
61 The Prince, the Riddles and the Goatskin
67 Your Hair Will Be Your Fortune!
73 Cagliostro Lives!
77 The Miracle of the Poinsettia
81 Possessed? - Plus the Flight of the Little Yellow Pom-Pom!

89 Let Us Talk About Stories and Storytelling: how and why

105 Kismet or the Enchanted Stepping Stones
106 The Routines
106 - The Prizewinner! - A Game of Chance!
111 - The Treasure of Tortuga! - A Pirate Tale!
117 - Barry Porter and The Slimy Swamp of Sludge!
123 - Arthur's Quest for the Dragon's Gold!
129 - An Egyptian Night of Rapture! - Wife-Swapping Among the Pyramids!

135 Appendix
169 Brief Biography