Nick Trost: Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations Vol. 8
©2020 H&R Magic Books
Hardbound, 206 pages
"I think this is the best volume yet."
Steve Beam
More than 100, remarkably easy-to-card effects are jam-packed into this special release within Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations series. This is the eighth edition of this multi-volume compendium of card magic based on subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand. Most of the material has never been published before.
This gorgeous 200+ page hardbound book is broken up into 13 chapters covering everything from Poker Puzzles, Divinations, Gilbreath Tricks, Predictions, Coincidences, ESP Tricks, Gambling Tricks and more.
"The student of magic will find a great deal of valuable information in this book... Mr. Trost knows how to construct entertaining card magic..."
Roy Walton
"The name Nick Trost has always been synonymous with good, simple and commercial magic. (He) is one of my heroes in card magic... Nick's fertile imagination has created some of the most truly memorable effects during the past few decades..."
Aldo Colombini
"I've never been a fan of show-off 'over-technical' long-winded card magic designed to fool only the boys. (Notice that I use the word fool and not entertain. Think on that!) It's often laden with esoteric, angley and non practical sleights. Nick Trost's work, in contrast, is not easy for 'ease' sake; but its all (yes, all) practical and well-constructed to entertain laymen. Mr. Trost doesn't shun sleights either, but-thank goodness-he doesn't overuse them. He's kept his eye on the ball that magic is to entertain (and mystify) laymen with. If, along the way, it happens to fool other magicians-fine. But, that (I guess) is just a mere bonus."
Paul Gordon
Nick Trost (March 16, 1935 - October 23, 2008) was a prolific author of booklets and creator of packet card tricks.
Trost first became enthused about magic when he was seven or eight years old, after seeing a magic show staged by the members of IBM Ring 3 in Troy, Ohio. He then met Bob Lewis of Dayton, Ohio, who sparked his keen interest in card magic.
An alumnus of Ohio State University, he served as a private in the U.S. Army in 1957.
Trost wrote and edited a column on card magic in The New Tops from May 1961 until December 1994.
He had a Hocus Pocus Parade in Linking Ring, Vol. 34, No. 12 (February 1955) and received the award for Originality of a Card Effect at the IBM Convention in Pittsburgh, PA that same year.
Trost died of brain cancer after being diagnosed earlier in 2008.
Marketed Tricks
Nick's Expanding Cards (1952)
Card-O-Matic (1962)
Telespo (1963)
Half and Half (1964)
Challenge Poker Deal (1964)
Gambler's Dream (1964)
Abra-Card-Abra (1964)
Astrologic (1964)
Think of an Ace (1965)
X marks the Spot (1965)
Twisting the Ace (1966)
4 Flush! (1970)
Pizza Poker (1971)
Wild Deuce (1974)
The Deuce You Say! (1974)
Fool's Mate (1974)
Ace in the Hole (1974)
Showdown (1974)
Eight Card Brainwave (1974)
Fadeaway 4 (1974)
Jumbo Two-Way Split (1974)
Dealer's Choice (1975)
Australian Aces (1975)
Sixth-Thot (1975)
Mini-Maze (1976)
Un-Cards (1976)
Wacky Packet (1976)
Twisto Blanko (1976)
Road Runner (1976)
Double Cross (1976)
Half Wild (1977)
Horsin' Around (1978)
Bigfoot (1978)
Mississippi Monte (1979)
Oscar (1980)
Razzle-Dazzle (1981)
Fly Circus (1981)
Mexican Monte (1981)
Hockey-Poker (1981)
Blanko Wild Card (1981)
Pop-Eyed Poker (1981)
Super Split (1982)
Incredible! (1982)
Trick-Kards (1982)
Zenith Card Prediction (1983)
Rainbow Miracle (1984)
1-2-3-4 Trick (1986)
The Unknown Card (1987)
Marked Kards (1987)
Dream of the Hermit (1988)
Mississippi Poker (1989)
Quadraplex (1991)
Destiny Deck (1991)
Cardsecret No. 3 Hight-Card Poker (1992)
Blind-Sight (1992)
Super Showdown (1997)
Bibliography
Nick's Table Trix (1956)
Cardman's Secrets 1 & 2 (1964)
Nick's Quartet (1965)
E.S.P. Session with Nick Trost (1965)
Mental Card Miracles (1965)
Expert Gambling Tricks (1975)
Gambling Tricks with Cards I & II (1975)
Subtle Card Magic, Part One & Part Two (1976)
E.S.P. Card Magic, Folio No. 1 (1979)
Impromptu Card Magic, Folio No. 2 (1979)
Close-Up Mentalism, Folio No. 3 (1979)
Starke Effekte (German issue of Nick Trost Folios, 1995)
The Card Magic of Nick Trost (1997)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 1 (2008)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 2 (2009)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 3 (2011)
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Vol. 4 (2013)
References
The Linking Ring, Vol. 34, No. 12, February 1955, Nick Trost by Don Tanner, page 21, THE NICK TROST HOCUS POCUS PARADE by Don Tanner, page 51
The Linking Ring, Vol. 37, No. 5, July 1957, Nick Trost Routines in Close-up, page 64
The Linking Ring, Vol. 45, No. 10, October 1965, Annemann Jinx Hocus Pocus Parade, NICK TROST, page 96
M-U-M, Vol. 97, No. 10, March 2008, Nick Trost by Jon Racherbaumer, page 60
The Linking Ring, Vol. 88, No. 12, December 2008, Broken Wand, Nicholas K. Trost, page 119
