Jim Steinmeyer: 4 books
The Last Greatest Magician in the World
Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today.
Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest...
Charles Fort
The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The seminal biography of the twentieth century’s premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort—a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained.
By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place.
Charles Fort...
The Secret History of Magic
The True Story of the Deceptive Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters
If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during...
Who Was Dracula?
Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
**The acclaimed author of The Last Greatest Magician in the World sleuths out literature's iconic vampire, uncovering the source material—from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman—behind Bram Stoker's lord of the undead.
Praise for Who Was Dracula?**
“A...