Haunted Deck

Haunted Deck (also known as "Self-cutting Cards") is a classic plot in card magic developed by Al Baker where a selected card placed back into the deck and usually held in the palm of the hand, eerily moves by itself back out of the deck.

Some Rising Cards effects were also marketed as "Haunted Pack".

Variations

• The Pack that Cuts Itself in Al Baker's Book One (1933), reprint in The Secret Ways of Al Baker
• Esoteric by Jon Finn - one or more cards "move" out of the deck.
• Eugene Burger's handling in Eugene Goes Bizarre.
• The Haunted Pack by Eugene Burger in The Performance of Close-Up Magic (1987)
• Bruce Elliott, Magic As A Hobby (1948) - a version that leaves the deck clean and examinable.
• Danny Korem's Impromptu Haunted Deck in Korem Without Limit - the deck cuts itself and turns the selected card face up. It is also repeatable (1985).
• The Poltergeist Pack by Tommy wonder in The Books of Wonder, Vol. 1 written by Stephen Minch (1996).
• Euan Bingham's The Ghost Cut in Free From Filler (2003)
• Karl Fulves' Haunted in Riffle Shuffle Methods (1987)
• Harry Lorayne's Double Saltless in Apocalypse, Vol. 1-5