The world of magic and mentalism mourns the loss of Larry Baukin, a legendary figure whose innovative contributions to bizarre magick and psychic reading spanned over four decades. Renowned for his unique blend of macabre storytelling and supernatural-themed performances that earned a revered status among magicians and mentalists. His groundbreaking work in cold reading and mentalism, characterized by an empathetic and theatrical approach, leaves an enduring legacy that continues to inspire performers in the esoteric arts. Though he is no longer with us, Baukin's influence will forever resonate in the world of magic. Our condolences to the family including but not limited to his son Jack and his daughter Katie! Fortunately his works are still available as we work with a new generation of the Baukin family.

SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW LARRY'S INCREDIBLE WORKS. I LOVED THE COVER ART THAT LARRY CHOSE - IT REFLECTED THE REFINEMENT OF THE MAN IN TASTE AND MEANING BY SELECTING PERFECTLY BEFITTING WORKS!

Psychic Entertainment - Stuart Palm - $155 (BRAND NEW and MUST HAVE! - $155.00

Stuart Palm in association with Third Sight Studio has created an absolute must have tome for the practitioner of Psychic Entertainment and mentalism. This tome features 640 pages, with a dust-jacket that serves double-duty as both the left and right leaflets contain quick references for the effects included in the book. Well played Stuart.

Psychic entertainment is the art of mentalism focused on the presentation and exploration of abilities and ideas concerning the human soul and/or mind. Psychic entertainment is an interactive art form, where the audience participates in creating the experience. Psychic entertainment often has a mystical tone or theme, where the feeling of awe and wonder are achieved. The experience for the audience members and participants when delivered correctly has the power to make the most intense experience greater than any in the art of magic and mentalism. That deserves repeating - when you make a connect with a participant the intensity of that effect is so powerful it permeates the room making a long lasting impression for all in the room. 

Indisputable Fact: In fact there is no greater opportunity to make a lasting impression on an audience or participant, than through the skillful execution of Psychic Entertainment. Stuart is an expert at achieving those types of intimate lasting impressions. Sincerely the strength of such work should never be underestimated. 

Psychic Entertainment includes but is not limited to: mentalism, hypnosis, memory demonstrations, amazing feats of calculation, psychic readings, mediumship, seance and spirit communication, mesmerism, shamanic ritual, and truly anything entertaining or framed as entertainment concerning our mental or spiritual experience.

"I never would say I speak for all but I am confident in my ability to have confidence when I inform my clients a product it worthwhile - this rates high" - Mark Stevens

Practical Paranormal Performance - Anthony Heads - $90.00 - HOT!

“Practical Paranormal Performance belongs in the library of every mentalist, bizarrist, and mystery performer. Highly recommended.” - Neal Scryer

“Practical Paranormal Performance perfectly fulfills the promise of its title. Anyone who wants to learn about paranormal performance, or who wants to do it, needs to read this book.” Larry Hass, Dean of McBride's Magic & Mystery School.

In Practical Paranormal Performance, Anthony Heads condenses over a decade of stage experience and knowledge into one book. This work is aimed at performing mentalists, magicians, story tellers and even the bizarrist hoping to branch out into realistic paranormal performance; be it amateur/hobbyist or full-time performer.

This book is a guide to how the Paranormalist must think, act and behave when creating and performing realistic Paranormal entertainment for paying audiences. This is not spooky or Halloween magic to be crowbarred into a magic show. This is an entire different form of show or performance which must be approached with a whole new mindset when scripting, blocking, building and performing.

Filled with real, practical advice learned from years of experience, this book contains hints, tips and insights which will save the reader years of trial and error. Practical Paranormal Performance is the culmination of hundreds of live stage shows in front of thousands of spectators. This book is not armchair theory - it is real world knowledge from over a decade of planning, preparing and performing realistic paranormal shows and covers not only stagecraft but also gives honest, realistic insights on how to achieve financial success when working as a solo performer.

This book is not for the layman and is not filled from cover to cover with effects. Do not buy this book if you are just looking for magic tricks. It is filled with information much more valuable than packet tricks, reputation makers or "magician foolers". It is about becoming the material and the subject. It is about realizing that paranormal entertainment is a totally different beast to other forms of mentalism or magic. It is about becoming a Paranormalist.

Larry Baukin is one of the most successful authors on the subject of cold reading and mentalism. His previous books, also available at Stevens Magic, are some of the most prestigious and respected in the art. In Magic Speak, Larry has been successful in accomplishing a difficult objective - creating a book that provides significant mental nourishment to beginners and accomplished readers alike. I was cataloging a small sampling of about 5oo books from my father's collection where I came across a large 3-ply binder which contained the original inserts from Magick - Bascon Jones. I grabbed one of the 150 plus pages, somewhere in the middle, just as if I was picking a card from a deck, and upon turning the page who's name did I see as a contributor - Larry Baukin. For those that know of Larry's work, no further ad copy is required. " If there was a college or university for mentalism and magic - Larry Baukin would be the distinguished professor. He raises the bar most notably in the content he provides but equally in more subtle yet important ways vis-à-vis his referrals to other sources, style, elegance and culture. Larry is that rare talent that understands and masterfully incorporates a sort of ecosystem of interdependent symbiotic resources that when coalesce - display the attainment of perfection." - Richard Webster

INTRODUCTION: Larry Baukin

“There is more gold to be gotten from men than from rivers.” - Bertolt Brecht

This book is a compilation of cold reading techniques. These techniques and approaches to giving readings represent many years of trial and error. In addition, the volume is designed to be a practical manual for both the beginner as well as the more advanced practitioner. I also invite both mentalists and magicians to take advantage of the variety offered herein. I suggest that the reader commence his or her journey at the beginning of the book taking each chapter in sequential order. However, this advice is by no means the last word. In fact, if the reader prefers, the volume may be utilized as a kind of reference tool enabling the reader to skip around in the chapters.

This is not a treatise that presents yet another variation of material that has been floating around the trade forever. Included, for example, is a script that assists the psychic when confronted by an individual who reports that they have experienced an alien abduction, or have been contacted by some manner of supernatural being. Such sitters are not all nuts! And to my knowledge, as of this writing, little or nothing is available on how to read for such people who have had these alleged encounters. I first became aware of such clients at private readings that I gave under the auspices of new age shops and psychic fairs.

The book will contain scripts for readings derived from select mainstream psychology texts that I have found useful and often powerful in dealing with issues that are current in a client’s life. Often these texts, when presented with partial stacked deck principles, come across as quite metaphysical in their expression. In using the wealth of material that is sometimes buried within a non-magic book I have striven to include only those bits and pieces that have worked for me as a professional reader. For example, in applying the very basic structure of Robert Greene’s mammoth work Mastery, I soon found myself with the reputation of a metaphysical, intuitive career guide.

Still, I was the psychic that people wanted to have interpreting their cards. I framed such consultations as being a kind of brainstorming with the cards. I always offered the disclaimer that I was not a career counselor of any sort, but a mere intuitive, pointing out data that the clients might want to delve a little deeper into before making their own decisions. Very little in the cold reading literature deals with corporate career situations and issues that real people have to face in their daily lives and jobs. Not everything is about love! There is much - much more - naturally. Also included are a few minor, but effective trance techniques.

Finally, the volume will afford a quick and simple way to offer a number of future forecasts that will not only enrich your message, but be genuinely helpful to your client. And I won’t even begin to describe a completely new way to present your knowledge of the eight Myers-Briggs indicators in a style that is purely metaphysical.



There is something waiting for you to use successfully within these pages, hence, the book’s title, Magic Speak. The deceptively simple choice of these two words is the book’s not so hidden message. For magic, a sense of real, genuine magic is what your client or sitter wants you to provide them. Allow me to quote the poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.” In the final analysis magic speak is the language of the kingdom.

This amazing book will certainly live up to the use of the word ‘Classic’ in its title! There probably has never been a book with such range and such depth in nearly a dozen different types of readings for real, paying clients!

Front Cover Artwork: Le Prince, Jean Baptiste (1773-1781). The Necromancer, Est. 1775. Oil on canvas. All Rights - National Gallery, London, Great Britiain.

Of course it discusses card readings

That’s how it began - with Martin Baukin working out a very NEW WAY to give meaningful and accurate card readings in commercial settings. How you can give a solid, satisfying – and client dazzling – reading with just three - to five cards, if you wish – at a busy party or large corporate event.

• There has never been a system like this one before!
• It gives you a high degree of control over the direction that the reading can take. It’s not a matter of just saying anything you wish. The cards, for those who know them, will be saying exactly what you tell your client.
• You can have a small chart on you table, outlining the card meanings, if you wish. (It’s included in a printable format, amongst other useful information, on the CD accompanying the book.)
• Your client can readily see that your explanations of the cards meanings are following the guidelines – but still you are secretly and gently steering the reading, if you feel you should for this client. As all good readers are led by their own experienced intuition, there are times when you know the direction that this specific reading for this specific client must take.

How to answer Yes or No questions

Possibly you know some very private information that you can’t directly say to your client. With this method you can determine the direction that the reading will take with no visible maneuvering.

These are the true real-world readings with real clients, some who have a problem they wish to discuss, some who are just bored and want to be entertained, and those who are just curious. All of these can be addressed using methods that Martin Baukin has used to give readings for decades!

Everything explained in this ‘text book’ has been tested at the readers table with clients who are often quite familiar with readings. These are not fatuously re-written card tricks as far too many ex-magicians have done, thinking – wrongly - that they understood the reading process. So much more! This book has it all!

It is rare that the term "Game Changer" can be applied to any discipline... Something rare has happened - The Unholy Grail... The Unholy Grail will change the way serious readers, magicians and mentalists approach the art in the future. The many techniques used herein have never been applied as they now are in the Unholy Grail. There is no other book, anywhere, that resembles the Unholy Grail approach. The Grail is completely new and original in its practical applications."

This volume has been a long time in the making. The reason for the lengthy incubation period, is that Larry wanted extensive field work to accompany this production. To say everything within its covers is 'real world' is an understatement!"

For those sincere and experienced readers willing to put forth the effort required, they will have developed a skill that will allow them to give readings that will solidly connect with their clients and suggest some new potential ways to work through many of the kinds of problematic situations that bring people to readers in the first place.

Larry Baukin Is one of the top readers today and has been for over 40 years. He is considered to be, by many pro readers, the best of the best. His knowledge of readings and his real world experience with them has given him priceless knowledge of all aspects of readings. In this book, The Unholy Grail, Larry shares that knowledge and experience with us. This book is truly a masterpiece! If you are a serious reader, or aspire to be one, The Unholy Grail needs to be in your library. Read it, study it, practice Larry’s advice and you will have a new world of reading opened up to you. This book has my highest recommendation! - Tony Razzano

“Q: What happens when you take one of the world’s foremost psychic reading experts, decades of his real world experience in the field, boil it down, strip away the fat and cut off any excess, focus and concentrate the true fruits through an actual utility tool and item, complete it with a self contained reading system and top it off with the total overhaul and a dynamic core transformation of the ways, methods, manners and fashions in which you have previously given your readings to the paying public and high end private clientele that we cater to?

A: Larry Baukin’s “The Unholy Grail” – that’s what! If you give readings of any kind (Tarot or otherwise) and you want to be as effective, helpful and therapeutic as possible, take my word and GO GET THIS NOW. You’ll be thrilled you did. I was!” - Jerome Finley, Psychic Medium & Spiritual Healer

“Ritual recognizes the potency of disorder. In the disorder of the mind, in dreams, faints, and frenzies, ritual expects to find powers and truths which cannot be reached by conscious effort.” - George P. Hansen, The Trickster and the Paranormal

What the hell is a dream dweller? And what in God’s name is dream telepathy? Fair questions. First, a little background. The manuscript you are about to read is divided into five chapters. Each is connected directly to the whole, resulting in a kind of integrated system. Nothing in the monograph is a rehashing of my earlier books or just another version of already overworked material and techniques floating around out there in the cold reading ethers.



The concept of the dream dweller will be tied in directly to the idea of a telepathic connection between the reader and the sitter (dream telepathy). This will be explained and demonstrated in chapter 2 of the present volume. It goes without saying that this connection or rapport will come about during a standard reading utilizing the divination tool of your choice, or perhaps during a dream interpretation, or even during a seemingly ordinary conversation. The techniques in this book will come across to your sitters as interesting, intriguing, entertaining, and sometimes even a bit eerie. - Larry Baukin

No question, when I get stumped Larry Baukin is my #1 go to source when it comes to readings. To me Larry is more than just a peer - he is a legend. In reading Dream Dweller, I realized Larry is the walking definition of neural plasticity. This man continues to evolve pushing the boundaries of our field beyond. Incredible work. - Neal Scryer

Dream Dweller is the latest book from Larry Baukin, who just might be the greatest cold reader in America. The slim book’s subtitle is “A Treatise on the Mysterious Art of Dream Telephathy,” and the book as pertains to integrating dream interpretation into cold readings. The idea may be original with Larry, though, most of his materials are based on little known research by others. Larry offers applications for two classic divination systems - - palmistry and the tarot. He then offers three sample readings that show how powerful the material can be and how easily it can be included in your current reading system. Larry’s material is some of the best out there and this is no exception. - Jim Magus