You hand someone a locked box to look after. You perform your favourite signed card trick (obviously not Card on Ceiling!). As a finale, you unlock the box to reveal another box inside. Within this box is a folded playing card. The person who signed the card carefully removes it from the...

Flexion bring metal bending to the masses.Two keys are initialled and held by someone in their closed, cupped hands. They concentrate all their energies onto one of them. Upon opening their hands they find their chosen key is now bent and can be kept as a souvenir of a very personal...

Double Back is quite possibly the most powerful transposition effect you will ever perform. Four cards (two 5s and two kings) are openly shown. The two 5s are placed on someone's hand and you cleanly show you are holding the two kings. Instantly, you are now holding the two 5s and they are holding...

You remove ten cards from a wallet, leaving one more behind. Each card is shown, revealing ten different phobias, common fears which people have. The cards are mixed face down and one is chosen. It is Ligyrophobia - the fear of loud noises. The card remaining in the wallet is your prediction and as...

The Silent Treatment by Jon Allen is the effect that Jason Alexander performs in his Magic Castle act.  This is one of those perfect openers. You walk onstage and say nothing. You simply open a flip book that introduces you. Through only words on the signs, you communicate with the audience in...

Coming directly from Jon Allen's working repertoire is Double Back; perhaps the most fooling handling of The Last Trick of Dr. Daley that has ever been released. Two cards, undeniably in your hands, instantly change places with those held by someone else! It just doesn't get any more direct....

Preview Experience: The Magic of Jon Allen for free! This 15-page ebook contains a glimpse into the pages of this great new book. You'll get to read the publisher's introduction, plus learn three great previously unpublished tricks. Download this free ebook today and then purchase Experience: The...

Good performers avoid "me-versus-them" situations by breaking down the wall between themselves and an audience. In Spectators Don't Exist, professional magician Jon Allen explains how to even the most passive of "spectators" into enthusiastic "participants." On this DVD, you get to see Jon...

One night in a restaurant in London, Jon Allen reached into his bag and brought out four paper bags. He showed a sharp six-inch nail and pushed through a hole in a block of wood to make it stand upright. He placed the nail into one of the paper bags and sealed it closed. I then mixed up the bags...