Mr. Lauher has done it again!  His "Handcuff Annual 2006" was INCREDIBLY POPULAR WORLDWIDE!  (Very true:  These books STILL fly off of the shelf!).  So, naturally, Joe had to OUT-DO HIMSELF with the brand new, "Handcuff Annual 2007" book!  And this one is even better than the first one!  Chock full of wonderful color, as well as B & W photos, and outstanding articles contributed from the very best handcuff collectors and escapologists throughout the entire world.  You'll learn the inner secrets of Houdini's most famous handcuff challenge, the "London Mirror Handcuff".  You'll see detailed photos of the Guiteau Cuff, read stories of other escapists (yes, there really were more than Mr. H), and on and on.  The authors read like a "who's who" in handcuffs:  Lyons, Hanzlik, Bushey, Morrison, Burrell, McColl, Gluff, Darling, Basso, Gage, Thomson, Gower, Kirsche, Nichols, Stanyon, Willis, Pensaert, Cannon, and of course, Mr. Lauher.  Note:  It is a general consensus among the experts that these "annuals" are on their way to become true classic/collectibles.  150 pages.        

Mr. Lauher is the owner of the wonderful handcuff collector's website, Handcuffs.org.  He has taken the bull by the horns and compiled the first of it's kind; the Handcuff Annual 2006.  There are several features on handcuffs, by company, by type, by country of origin. Historical articles on Houdini and other performers of the past. Features on current escape artists. Visits to museums and other collections. Technical articles by the pros. This was a joint effort from many contributors from around the globe. England, Sweden, Germany, Australia and Canada are represented.  The cover photo shows a selection of H & R Super cuffs from Brad Darling's article on the subject, which is superb. There are 37 articles in all.  Several escape artists and handcuff collectors alike have contributed to this edition and all persons in those groups will enjoy this wonderful contribution to the unusual hobby of handcuff collecting.  150 pages with 50 in color.  This book is sure to become a collector's item.  Don't miss out!

THE MAGIC ENHANCER CD, VOLUME 2

Magic Enhancer Volume 2 is a professional compilation of studio enhanced voice and audio tracks aimed at improving any show or entertainment business.  Each track is designed to solve some of the most common problems facing performers today.  With solutions for audio voice-overs, show openers, show closers, vocal drops, sound effects and more, the Magic Enhancer Volume 2 will make you look more professional.  Your audience will believe you have a full production studio at your disposal! HERE IS ANOTHER REALLY COOL PART: THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 8 TRACKS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR ESCAPE ARTISTS! View all track titles on purchase page.

Bonus Material: Purchasers, please email us about special remixes and bonus material available online, including escape tracks.

Customizing Available! Not only can you buy our generic Magic Enhancer Volume 2, but the folks at Magic Enhancer can customize one for you! Just imagine -  tracks that will be customized with your stage name or company name for a GREAT price. This option will definitely show your audience that you are a true professional!  Please email us for details.

The Houdini Research Collection on two CDs, with over 2500 pages of material! 

Volume 1:  "Houdini's Pen".  This CD contains Ten complete books by Houdini!
Includes: The Right Way to Do Wrong, The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin, Handcuff Secrets, Magical Rope Ties and Escapes, Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist, Houdini's Paper Magic, Elliott's Last Legacy: Secrets of the King of All Kard Kings, A Magician Among the Spirits and Houdini Exposes the Tricks Used by the Boston Medium "Margery"

Volume 2:  "Houdini's Conjurers' Monthly Magazine".  This CD contains ALL 24 ISSUES OF HOUDINI'S CONJURER'S MAGAZINE, 1906-1908.

These two CD's contain hundreds of Houdini's secrets of escapes and magic, complete with rare historic illustrations.  A must for the Houdini fan and serious magic student!  Uncover Houdini's secrets and the story of his life and death in these essential works, previously scarce and expensive, now collected on two CDs!  Convenient PDF format. 

Here is what may be Houdini's best movie.  Made in 1922, this silent picture is 60  minutes long, and has been scored with music to try and recreate what it was like to watch these movies "back in the day".  Synopsis:  Houdini is discovered frozen in a block of ice for the past 100 years, and then brought back to life.  He then ends up entwined fighting bad guys, getting placed into a CRAZY CRIB, a STRAIT JACKET, a JAIL CELL, and various other scenarios.  Of course, he always escapes.  THIS IS THE MOVIE THAT FEATURES HOUDINI RESCUING THE HEROINE FROM "CERTAIN DEATH" OVER NIAGARA FALLS!  Great action sequences  (but it is also apparent why Houdini never made it as a leading man!).  Enjoy with a bucket of popcorn.  Restored on a TDK Scratch Proof Durabis DVD, to eliminate dirt, shaking and most other flaws.   As a result of thousands of hours of restoration, the newly restored DVD contains scenes missing and censored by other DVDs and bonus footage of rare newsreel of Houdini escaping upside down from a straight jacket over Dayton Ohio!  The entire 20 page pressbook for The Man From Beyond" complete with photos is there for those users who have computers with compatible PDF readers!

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What a beautiful book! This brand new work is a BIG compilation (almost 100 pages) of almost every known gimmicked handcuff ever made. From Houdini’s era to the 21st Century— from the Gimmicked Bean Giant to the McColl Smith & Wesson A.D.A, and everything in between, including other types of restraints.
Mr. McColl is known world-wide as the leading authority on gimmicked handcuffs. He has personally built various gimmicked designs numbering in the hundreds, and is unquestionably the most qualified person living to write such a book covering this topic. Invaluable to the performing escape artist. FOREWORD BY WORLD-RENOWNED ILLUSION BUILDER JOHN GAUGHAN.

Escape artists and handcuff collectors alike will love this book. Mr. Lauher is the owner of one of the largest collections of British style handcuffs in the world.  He has used his own, as well as contributor's restraints and knowledge, to compile this absolute gem.  This 108 page book contains an abundance of FULL COLOR, as well as black & white photographs of practically every variation of Darby, Plug 8, nipper, modern style, etc.  But it also goes into detail on handcuff markings, keys, cuff genealogy, Houdini's and other escapologist's secrets to deal with the cuffs, etc.  Highly recommended.

This is it! One of the most eagerly anticipated books on handcuffs is finally here! Mr. Nichols has released a GIGANTIC book on the subject of handcuffs and various other restraints. This FULLY ILLUSTRATED book contains 304 pages of up-to-date information on the subject. In addition to handcuffs and leg irons, learn about Medieval torture devices, strait jackets, rope ties, grips, thumb and finger cuffs, keys, etc. Destined to become a classic. Escape artists and handcuff collectors alike will love this book. Highly recommended.

Mr. Nichols has released a SECOND book on the subject of handcuffs and various other restraints. This FULLY ILLUSTRATED book contains 230 pages of up-to-date information on the subject.  Also, destined to become a classic. Escape artists and handcuff collectors alike will love this book. Highly recommended.

129 large pages of information supplemented with 48 numbered illustrations and 24 reproductions of original handcuff patents.  Included are 8 handcuff and pick display boards.  All unnecessary material has been weeded out, leaving only working details for the magician and escape artist.           
A UNIQUE FEATURE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS WORK     
An icon appears at the head of each description of a devise indicating: 1) whether you can work it with apparatus that you may now own or easily acquire or 2) whether the paraphernalia may be readily constructed or 3) whether you may have to buy that particular item.  Besides the work of William McLaury you will find Thoughts and Details on escapism by Prynce Wheeler, John Pomeroy and others.                                                            
11 chapters plus a Bibliography compiled by Stephen Forrester

This brand new 36 page book goes deep into the intimate secrets of overcoming many of the more sophisticated handcuffs out there. A perfect follow-up to the Handcuff Manipulation Training Kit, this book features colored illustrations, and intricate discussion on such cuffs as Peerless, S&W, Hiatt, Darby’s, Hiatt 1960, S&W Max Security 104’s, etc. Additionally, the reader is introduced to articulating tools, shims, picks, etc. If you already have some of Mr. McColl’s books, you know the quality to expect. Simply the best in the world.

This little booklet sells as fast as it is printed! VERY POPULAR. Inside you will find a completely illustrated dictionary of words related to the art of escape. Everything from "Shim" to "Feke" to "Cavity Padlock". This will help you to further understand the complex, intricate workings of a cylinder lock, handcuff, etc. A recent review says “The Escape Artist Dictionary is a worthy addition to any escape library”.   

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Don't underestimate this little booklet.  It is essential to any novice interested in doing cuff escapes.  It is essential to any collector or would-be collector of cuffs.  And it is of real value to the seasoned professional escape artist.  The book covers sources for handcuffs, making and using trick handcuffs, variations of the Thumb Cuff Escape and handcuff hunting, collecting and identification.  40 pages.

Are you looking to add something entirely new and different to your escape or illusion show?  Here's a restraint that heretofore has hardly been touched on:  The GARROTE ESCAPE!  Straight from the Spanish Inquisition, this OUTSTANDING "How to" book is fully illustrated with wonderful, full-color graphics!  Mr. Mollett has created FOUR DIFFERENT GARROTES to chose from:  The Simplex, Spanish, Conquistador, and Catalonia Garrote all feature different mechanical and "devious" attributes that will entertain, delight, and frankly, SCARE your audience.  Imagine a device wherein you sit on a stool and your neck is secured to an upright post, while your wrists are also restrained.  (And in the case of the Catalonian Garrote, a SPIKE IS SLOWLY DRIVEN TOWARDS YOUR NECK!)*  Remember James Bond when he was locked into a Garrote and only escaped in a nick of time before meeting "certain death"?  Now you too can perform this spectacular, "death-defying" escape!   You will thoroughly enjoy building this beautiful escape prop in your home workshop.  (*A "Tip of the hat" to Mr. Mollett for his numerous safety devices secretly employed in the various Garrotes).  46 pages.

Much has been asked about regarding origination and details of this terrific, full-view, sensational chain escape from a board.  You know the escape:  The escapist is chained to a tall coffin-shaped board (in a vertical position).  He then makes a strenuous, full-view escape.  This has been referred to as the "Australian Torture Crib", the "Ghost Walks", and many other names.  But it was originally designed and created by Mr. Palhinha and Mr. Trudel back in 1928.  This 20 page pamphlet illustrates and explains how to build the escape and present it.

Ian McColl produced and edited “The Escapist Newsletter”, also known as “T.E.N.” from 1996 to 1998. During that time, the T.E.N. was the most important quarterly journal published in the world on the subject of escapology. Every escape artist known, and many unknown, contributed to the magazine. In 1998, Mr. McColl ceased publication. Consequently, the T.E.N. has become one of the most sought after periodicals on the subject in the world. Now, for the first time, all eight issues of The Escapist Newsletter have been published collectively in book form! These are literally flying off of the shelves and are limited in edition, so don’t delay!   

Ever since first releasing the original "Handcuff Patents" book in 1997, Ian McColl's compilation of the inner workings of the many different handcuff drawings has been a big hit with escape artists and collectors alike.  NOW, THE NEW, THICKER 2001 EDITION IS OUT!  This edition includes all of the previous drawings and text, along with approximately 58 newly included handcuffs, such as the Delestatius, Kahlke, Phelps and Kimball.  This LARGE volume contains over 192 PAGES (the original was 122 pages).  Drawings include various handcuffs, leg irons and other unusual shackles and restraints.  ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL FOR ANY ESCAPE ARTIST THAT WISHES TO KNOW THE LOCK MECHANISMS ON VARIOUS RESTRAINTS.   

Temporarily out of stock.

This is the REAL DEAL.  Without a doubt, the single most sought after piece of information by any aspiring escape artist is the REAL secret to escaping from a JAIL CELL.  This 16 page, fully colored illustrated manuscript is a workshop manual for the escapologist.  For reasons that are obvious, this treatise is ONLY meant for the PROFESSIONAL escapologist.  A great companion to the "Picking A Prison Lock" booklet listed below.     

A perfect companion to "Prison Key Making From An Impression" (above).  Ironically, while the subject matter contained herein is probably the most searched-for in the entire world of escapology, here-to-fore it has been almost entirely lacking.  This 12 page, fully illustrated manuscript will take the serious student through the necessary steps to overcome a JAIL LOCK, including the tools needed.  Contains in-depth mechanical drawings of the INTERIOR of typical prison locks.  As with McColl's "Key Impression" booklet above, this will only be sold to PROFESSIONAL escape artists.