The House of the Sphinx

The House of the Sphinx comes from Henry Ridgely Evans (1861-1949), the Washington writer who was America’s leading historian of stage magic and exposer of spiritualist fraud. Evans wrote The Old and the New Magic and spent decades documenting conjurers from Cagliostro to Houdini’s predecessors, and this book works the same borderland of mystery, illusion, and the occult. His books remain sources for historians of magic and of the séance-room wars. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.