Contents
Foreword by Robert W. Gibson, M.D. ix
Preface 1
1. Setting the Scene of an Extraordinary Life 7
2. The Magical Years of Youth 17
3. Shaping the Future 24
4. Howard Thurston 38
5. Harry Houdini’s Final Escape 47
6. Casting the Shadow 59
7. Who Knows the Shadow? 74
8. Shadows of the Shadow 84
9. Harry Blackstone, Sr.—Lighting the Floating Bulb of Friendship 98
10. Psychic Phenomena and Mental Magic 106
11. Litzka Raymond Gibson—A Uniting Force of Magic 120
12. A Fading Shadow 137
Afterword 152
Appendix I: Alfred Gibson’s Account of the Lincoln Conspiracy Trials 161
Appendix II: Gibson Diary Extract, ¡9¡9 165
Notes 171
Bibliography 181
Index 185