Author Description

This book was originally made available to attendees of Doomsday 11 in May 2022. Doomsday is the world's premier annual gathering to celebrate the mysterious world of Bizarre Magic, Storytelling Magic and paranormal high-strangeness. Making Dark Magicks contains: A foreword by Ashton Carter My 'Making Dark Magicks' lecture in full Two illustrated articles on two of the shows I discuss in my lecture The full illustrated script of 'Phantasmagoria: Stories To Be Told Out' (which includes 13 mini scripts for effects, including the needle swallow script I talked about in the lecture) A write up of my propless storytelling effect 'The Gift of Hermes' which leaves your audience with a little bit of magical thinking to take with them after your show. I hope it will be useful to you when making your own magicks.