Abbott/Joseffy Project Bibliography

One of these days, I still might write a full-length novel about David P. Abbott and/or Joseffy, but in the meantime, I’m writing One Ahead mystery novellas. Check out the first one: The Case of the Sorrowful Seamstress.

Related tags: Abbott Project, magic

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Magic and Related Subjects, Non-Fiction

1. Abbott, David P. – Behind the Scenes with the Mediums
2. Abbott, David P. w/ Teller & Todd Karr – House of Mystery
3. Abbott, David P. – The History of a Strange Case
4. Abbott, David P. – The Marvelous Creations of Joseffy
5. Abbott, David P. – The Spirit Portrait Mystery: Its Final Solution
6. Brandon, Don & Joyce Brandon – …Memoirs and Confessions of a Stage Magician
7. Brown, Derren, – Tricks of the Mind
8. Browne, Sylvia – Adventures of a Psychic
9. Cai, Ning – Who is Magic Babe Ning?
10. Dunninger, Joseph – Magic and Mystery
11. Fajuri, Gabe – Laurant: The Man of Many Mysteries
12. Farrington, Elijah – Revelations of a Spirit Medium
13. Fenton, Peter – Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist
14. Frisch, Ian – Magic is Dead
15. Goldston, Will – Exclusive Magical Secrets
16. Haskins, James – Conjure Times: Black Magicians in America
17. Herrmann, Adelaide & Margaret B. Steele – Adelaide Herrmann: Queen of Magic
18. Higher Read – Houdini: A Life Worth Reading
19. Houdini, Harry – Miracle Mongers and their Methods
20. Houdini, Harry – The Right Way to Do Wrong
21. Jaher, David – The Witch of Lime Street
22. Jay, Ricky – Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
23. Jarrow, Gail – The Amazing Harry Kellar
24. Johnson, Karl – The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist
25. Kreskin, T. A. & Michael McCarty – Conversations with Kreskin
26. Lamont, Peter & Richard Wiseman – Magic in Theory
27. Lamont, Peter – The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick
28. Lamont, Peter & Jim Steinmeyer – The Secret History of Magic
29. Macknik, Stephen L.& Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee – Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
30. Ninio, Jacques – The Science of Illusions
31. Penn & Teller’s How to Play in Traffic
32. Penn & Teller’s How to Play with Your Food
33. Penn & Teller’s Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
34. Rhindress, Adele Friel – Memoirs of an Elusive Moth
35. Robinson, William E. – Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena
36. Rockliff, Mara – Anything But Ordinary Addie
37. Sandford, Christopher – Houdini and Conan Doyle
38. Spill, Steve – I Lie for Money
39. Standage, Tom – The Turk
40. Staniforth, Nate – Here is Real Magic
41. Steinmeyer, Jim – The Glorious Deception
42. Steinmeyer, Jim – Hiding the Elephant
43. Steinmeyer, Jim – The Last Greatest Magician in the World
44. Steinmeyer, Jim – “The Spider in the Flies”
45. Stone, Alex – Fooling Houdini
46. Thomas, Frankin A. – How to Hold Circles for the Developing Mediumship at Home
47. Thomas, Frankin A. – Philosophy and Phenomena of Spiritualism
48. Thompkins, Matthew – The Spectacle of Illusion by Matthew

Magic and Related Subjects, Fiction

1. Armstrong, Jon – Smoke & Mirrors
2. Blackwood, Gary L. – Curiosity
3. Chabon, Michael – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
4. Copperfield, David ed. – David Copperfield’s Beyond Imagination
5. Copperfield, David ed. – David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible
6. Gaspard, John – The Ambitious Card
7. Gaspard, John – The Bullet Catch
8. Gaspard, John – Miser’s Dream
9. Gaspard, John – “The Invisible Assistant”
10. Gaspard, John – The Linking Rings
11. Gaspard, John – The Floating Light Bulb
12. Gold, Glen David – Carter Beats the Devil
13. Goldman, William – Magic
14. Lawrence, Iain – The Séance
15. Lutes, Jason (writer) & Nick Bertozzi (Illustrator) – Houdini: The Handcuff King
16. Kelly, Victoria – Mrs. Houdini
17. Mannetti, Lisa – The Box Jumper
18. Mason, Lisa – “Every Mystery Unexplained”
19. Matheson, Richard – Now You See It . . .
20. Millhauser, Steven – “Eisenheim the Illusionist”
21. Prasil, Tim – Help for the Haunted
22. Priest, Christopher – The Prestige
23. Rawson, Clayton – Death from a Top Hat
24. Selznick, Brian – The Houdini Box
25. Stashower, Daniel – The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man
26. Stern, Steve – “Hyman the Magnificent”

General History, Omaha, and the Midwest

1. Bristow, David L. – A Dirty, Wicked Town: Tales of 19th Century Omaha
2. Coffey, Marilyn – Thieves, Rascals, and Sore Losers
3. Menard, Orville D. – River City Empire: Tom Dennison’s Omaha
4. Sandburg, Carl – Smoke and Steel & Slabs of the Sunburnt West
5. Wheeler, Theodore – On the River, Down Where They Found Willy Brown

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Magic and Related Subjects, Non-Fiction

• Dunningers Complete Encyclopedia Of Magic by Joseph Dunninger
• Houdini on Magic by Harry Houdini
• The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon
• World’s Best Card Tricks by Bob Longe
• The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation by S.W. Erdnase
• Linking Rings: William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America by James David Robenalt
• Facts, Frauds, & Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement by Georgess McHargue
• The Great Illusionists by Edwin A Dawses
• Edison’s Eve by Gaby Wood

Magic and Related Subjects, Fiction

• The Spirit Cabinet by Paul Quarrington
• The Magician by Sol Stein
• The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough
• Inamorata by Jospeh Gangemi
• The Great Balsamo by Maurice Zolotow
• Nothing Up His Sleeve by Geraldine Larsen

General History, Omaha, and the Midwest

• Barrelhouse Boys by Joel Williamson
• Kings of Broken Things by Theodore Wheeler

* List does not include ebooks. A more complete list of what I own and what I want to read exists at Goodreads.