Annemann's Practical Mental Effects

A Comprehensive Collection of the Best Mental Tricks!

By Ted Annemann

Edited by John j. Crimmins, Jr.

Illustrated by Nelson Hahne

Hardbound Edition - Fifth Printing

Practical Mental Effects without a doubt is the most popular book ever written on the subject. Theodore Annemann poured his heart into this fine paperback volume, which is timeless and so very educational. You will learn scores of routines and ESP tricks that will turn you into the consummate mentalist. 

310 Pages, 194 Tricks, 12 Chapters, Effects with Billets, Publicity Effects, Dead or Alive, Book Test, Thought Foretold, Miscellaneous Masterpieces, Envelope Necromancy, Miracle Slate Routines, Money Mentalism, Blindfold Reading, Mentalism with Coins, and Psychic Codes.

So You're Not A Mentalist? Not interested in making tricks? No matter here's material that Any magician can and every magician should use. Most of the effects can be presented as straight magic routines.

Contents Include:

Chapter I Effects With Billets And Pellets
7 Bert Reese Secrets
11 Billet Switching
13 A Question and the Answer
15 The Al Baker 3 Billet Trick
16 A Day in Your Life
18 The Germain Gem
20 Tervil
22 Mental Hat Pin
24 Devil Device
26 The O M Billet Switching Box
28 The Ghost of a Chance
29 Crystal Clear

Chapter II Publicity Effects
30 Mindreading Publicity Effect
31 News Event Prediction
32 The Unknown Subject
33 Publicity Stunt
33 On the Wire
35 Wired Thought
35 The Impression Moderne
36 A Cute Publicity Stunt
36 Death Flight
37 Impromptu Vision
38 A Neat Publicity Trick
39 Television Compact
40 Graphology

Chapter III Dead Or Alive
42 From Beyond the Grave
43 Two Papers and a Spectator
45 More Living Than Dead
45 Dead or Alive
47 The Secret
48 Dr Daley's Death Divination
48 The Ghost Hand
49 Dead!
50 Hades Calling!
50 Nyctalopia
51 Entity Alone

 Chapter IV Book Tests
53 Between the Lines
54 The Yogi Book Test
56 The Perfect Book Test
57 Whim of Tituba
59 Dice and a Book
60 The World on the Page
61 Monk's Mystery
62 The Double Ad Test
64 Symmyst
66 Behind That Door
68 20th Century Newspaper Test
69 The Jaipur Jinnee
71 40,000 Words
73 Another Dictionary Effect
75 David P Abbott's Book Test

Chapter V Thought Foretold
77 Pocket Prophecies
78 Construction of the Annemann's Billet Index
80 The Original Effect
81 Lady and Gentleman
81 The Omega Card Prophecy
82 Orville Meyer's Twin Prediction
83 The Improved Buckley Method
84 Annemann's Ballot Box Divination
86 Tomorrow's Card

Chapter VI Miscellaneous Mental Masterpieces
89 Sefalaljia
93 Telethot
96 The Astral Shirt
97 Impromptu Frame-Ups
100 The Phantom Artist
102 Travel Thought
103 Taps!
104 Finger-Finger
105 Lock and Key
106 Telepathy on the Cuff
106 Number Thot
107 The New Half and Half
109 Horrors
111 Black Pin Idea
111 Voodoo
113 Encore Voodoo
115 Krazy Kode
116 Operator Calling
116 Divination with Matches
117 Calendar Conjuring
119 Date Sense
120 Shades of Sherlock Holmes
121 Triumph of the Triumvirate
124 Prophetic Tissue
125 Ball of Fortune

Chapter VII Envelope Necromancy
127 My Own Swami Test
129 Triple Coercion
130 Modernized Reading
132 Pseudo-Psychometry
133 Modernizing the "One Ahead" Principle
137 An Original Faked Envelope
139 Bluebeard's 7 Wenches
141 Just and Echo
144 Who Killed Mr X?
147 The Astral Ad
150 Re-incarnation
152 Prediction
153 Dark Sorcery

Chapter VIII Miracle Slate Routines
155 The Perfect Club Slate Routine
157 Extra Sensory Perception
159 Notaria
161 A Torn Letter
163 Headline Hunter
165 Psychic Slate Test
166 The Gysel Slate
168 Before Your Eyes
170 Walter Gibson's Method
170 Phantom Hand
172 Ultra Slate Message
173 The Answer
175 Never Fail
176 Ultra Addition
178 Sacred Script
180 Tribal Try
182 Duo Telepathy
183 Slate Immortality
184 Half and Half
187 Numero
189 The Super Slates
190 Gabbatha
191 Ghost Writer
192 Nonpareil
194 My Case
196 20th Century Slate Test
196 The Schoolbag
198 Knockout
199 A Slate and a Number
200 Ghost Writer
202 Thought Rays
203 Fatal Number
204 Familiar Spirit
206 The Psychic Slate
206 A Thought-out Thought
207 Psychic Type
209 Mixed Mystery
211 Chalk on Metal Slates Tip

 Chapter IX Money Mentalism
212 Controlled Currency
215 A Mentalist with Money
216 Dollar Bill Switch
217 Mystic Perception
218 Pay Day
219 Numismatigic
220 The Knickel of Kanadah
221 Dates
222 Duplex Date Reading

Chapter X Blindfold Reading
224 Par-Optic Vision
226 New Sheet Reading
228 The Mystery of the Blackboard
229 In the Mind
233 With Sight Unseen
234 Mephisto Thot

Chapter XI Mentalism With Cards
237 Magic vs Mentalism
239 A Card to Be Thought About
239 Mind or Muscle?
241 Yggdrasil
244 Secret Order of the Aces
245 Parallel Thoughts
246 Volition
248 Waiting Place for Unknown Thoughts
249 The Brain Wave Deck
251 I'll Read Your Mind
252 A Peculiar Happenstance
253 You and Yours - Me and Mine
254 Parade of the Lamas
256 The Twin Princess
258 Cherchez La Lady
258 Open Minds
260 Forced Prognostico
262 The Dream of a Hermit
263 Mystic Matching
265 Mental Rescue
266 Copy Cat
267 Ghostatic Touch
268 The Guidance of Fate
269 Hypnosthesia
271 Mental Numbers
273 As in a Mirror Darkly
275 New $1000 Test Card Location
276 Utility Routine
278 Only on Image
280 Crystal-Viso
281 "Before Your Eyes" Business Card
281 Controlled Luck
282 A Mental Test Revamped
283 Diabolical Influence

 Chapter XII Psychic Codes
286 Weird Wire
289 Thoughts in the Air
291 The Eyes Have It
292 A Practical Card Code
294 Complete Silent Thought Transmission Act
300 A New Method of Tabulation
301 Moonlight Madness

Details: Annemann's Practical Mental Effects

317 pages, hardbound with dustjacket, size 6 1/4" by 9 1/4".