The reading room · Public book
Extracts from The Tarbell Course in Magic
Card Lessons
Selected card lessons from Harlan Tarbell’s original correspondence course, with classic sleights, impromptu effects, productions, rising cards and additional card mysteries.
Begin reading →19 sections · Open to everyone
Contents
Introduction
Core card lessons
- Lesson 9 — The Principles of Card Effects
- Lesson 12 — Cards That Pass in the Night and Cards Up the Sleeve
- Lesson 13 — Review, the Regular Pass and Card Stabs
- Lesson 14 — The Force, Card and Orange, and Banana Effects
- Lesson 15 — Card Positions, Palms, Shifts and Discoveries
- Lesson 16 — Card Penetrations Through Boards and Handkerchiefs
- Lesson 17 — Snap It, Flash Production and the Glass House
- Lesson 18 — Rising Cards
- Lesson 19 — More Rising Card Effects
- Lesson 34 — Twelve Impromptu Effects with Cards
- Lesson 35 — Sleight of Hand with Cards
- Lesson 36 — More Card Magic
Additional card effects
- Lesson 26 — A Card and Ribbon Mystery
- Lesson 29 — The X-Ray Cards
- Lesson 31 — Blindfold Card Reading and A Mystic Discovery
- Lesson 45 — Spirit Photography
- Lesson 54 — The Card Slot