Maurice Fogel – In Search of the Sensational by Chris Woodward, Richard Mark

Details: When magicians caught a bullet in their teeth… He caught six!

When magicians did spook shows… His ghosts were nude!

When magicians did rope tricks… He put a noose around his neck and jumped!

When magicians predicted a chosen number… He predicted which of six rifles should be aimed at his forehead!

He was Maurice Fogel, the twentieth century’s most audacious mentalist and one of its greatest showmen. His feats of mind reading captured headlines around the world-when he wasn’t predicting them. He dared death, he read minds and he became a legend in his own time.

Here is a taste of a typical Fogel performance:

Six volunteer marksmen were invited on stage to operate six legitimate, loaded and fully functioning rifles. One man chose a rifle at random and fired at a saucer, shattering it to smithereens. The discharged rifle was set with the five still-loaded ones in a rotating rack and the rack spun until no one could know which was the empty weapon. Each marksman was assigned a random number and took a random rifle from the rack. Fogel next revealed a predicted number that had been in full view and isolated from the start. The marksmen were all told to aim at saucers over Fogel’s head-but the man assigned the predicted number was to aim directly at Fogel’s forehead. Then, on his command they all fired!

To some he was a mental wonder; to others, an enigma. For years he strode the stages of the world, reading minds and using his strange powers to defy death. Maurice Fogel: In Search of the Sensational is the chronicle of the life of a master mentalist whose like has never been seen. He baffled the world and his peers. He defied death for years on a near nightly basis. He created an extraordinary body of professional mentalism that has remained among the most coveted material in the field. This book contains that material, along with the advice, experience and stories of a lifetime of professional performance by one of the world’s most acclaimed mentalists.

Maurice Fogel: In Search of the Sensational is the story of an amazing life and the mental secrets of an amazing man- The Amazing Fogel.

Written and collected by Chris Woodward, an award-winning magician and Fogel’s son-in-law, in collaboration with mentalist and Fogel confidant Richard Mark, here at last is the definitive work on Maurice Fogel, the man and his secrets.

Pages 440 in elegant hardcover with book ribbon.

Contents:

Acknowledgements vii
A Note on the Text ix
Dedication xi
Preface- J ohn Fisher xiii
CHAPTER 1: FIRST SENSATIONS 1
CHAPTER 2: A FEW SLIPS BUT No MISTAKES 45
A Pocketful of Change 49
Just Call Your Number 52
Beyond the Veil 59
Fogel in th: Pentagon 63
Ihe Secret Address 67
Sealed Billet Routine 68
CHAPTER 3: THE HELLIWELL AFFAIR 73
CHAPTER 4: I GIVE You THE FUTURE 109
Headline Hunter III
Headline Predictions 119
Ihe Loaf of Bread 120
Ttu: Clairvoyant Chicken 122
Ihe Fogel Nest ofBoxes 125
Chest of Chance 127
Bewitched, Bott/cd & Bewildered 131
Ihe Bouie Headline Prcdiction 135
Fogcl’s Double Prediction 146
:’fusical Mentalism 152
CHAPTER 5: A CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER 155
Ihe Bullet Catch 157
CHAPTER 6: THE MYSTIC FOGEL 177
Fogdism 179
CHAPTER 7: ORBITS &: ESPIONAGE 207
CHAPTER 8: NOT JUST CHANCE 235
Jackpot, Winner Takes All 238
SwamiflarioHS 239
Fantasy in Flame 241
Fantasy in Flame Con Brio 244
At Your Fingertip 245
Technicolour Chance 248
03.02.2001 254
Fogel’s Seven Keys 257
The Clear Force Bag 259
The Eternal Triangk 262
CHAPTER 9: HOUDlNI V. NUDE GHOSTS 267
The Gambling Ghost 277
Ihe Five Ghosts 287
Incaism 288
Ihe Houdini Seance 290
CHAPTER 10: DEATH BY SHOWMANSHIP 297
Cheating the Gallows 300
Russian Roulette 314
CHAPTER 11: THE FORTUNES OF FOGH 329
Ihe Foge! Formula 332
Asrro- Psychometry 342
Foge!’s Formuia for Fun 353
The Mystic Foge! Chor: 357
Th: Luchy Inca Pendant 364
CHAPTER 12: FOGH EPICS 367
A Cut-Awzy Gem 369
Maurice Fogel’s Invisible Cord Routine 371
Tripie Prediction 375
Borderline Case 377
Stooge Gags 380
Coin Coin-cuience 381
Ihe Mental Dictionary” Test 383
Foge! Epic 384
Second Spot 389
CHAPTER 13: FINAL CONVERSATIONS 393
The Corinda Interview 397
The Hugh Riley Interview 410
Index 417

• Publisher: Hermetic Press
• Pages: 440
• Location: Seattle, USA
• Edited by: Max Maven
• Dimensions: 7″x10″
• Date: 2007
• Binding: hardbound

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