Magic Tricks

I'm really into bizarre, scary magic. I saw this book and thought that it would have some good ideas. It may be 230 pages, but it is mostly wasted space. First off there are very few pictures, to go along with the explainations. 2nd, this book is mostly card tricks, there are a few ideas that don't involve cards, but 95% of all the tricks involve cards. The third complaint I have is that almost all of the tricks he describes belong to other people, which means you need to either know how to do the trick already, or go out and buy it. All Bryant has done is add a spooky story. It says in the description of the book that there is a section of other people's ideas, and you need to go to the source to learn the trick. I found that probably 80% of the book requires you to know how to do a certain card trick. Bryant tells you what trick he uses, and then gives you the site to purchase the trick. You also must have some knowledge of how to hadle cards. While the forces he uses are not difficult, hindu shuffle, and riffle, he does not explain how to do them, and some of the tricks reuire more advanced handling. The levitating table is useless unless you want to go out and purchase a very expensive prop. Overall this book is not worth the money. Anyone with a little imagination could take alomost any trick they know add a Halloween spin to it. I gave it 2 stars because there were a few ideas I thought were useable and unique. But he spends way too much time writing about props that are no longer avaiable, using very expensive props, and just recycling other peoples' material. If the price were cheaper, say $15 it would be a good deal, but $33 is way too much, even though iit is hard back.