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Bordertown Lives! (again)
Robert Lynn Asprin is partly to blame. Bob Asprin, who as Yang the Nauseating founded the Great Dark Horde as an institution in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Bob Asprin.…
Pat Collins — “The Hip Hypnotist”
There have been many famous male stage hypnotists in the 20th Century, including Walford Bodie, Franz Polgar, Ormond McGill and Gil Boyne, but there has only been one female stage hypnotist with an equal amount of fame then.
That hypnotist was Pat Collins — “The Hyp Hypnotist”.
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‘Looking for Something’ by Frank Herbert
Aliens that only one person can see, as the rest of humanity is under a hypnotic illusion of normalcy. Aliens with hypnotic powers. Aliens who see humanity as only a food source.
Its a common enough story line. ”Looking for Something’ by Frank Herbert is a short story of stage hypnotist who discovers that he shares an unusual vision with one of his subjects and investigates it.
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‘Attack Angels’ — “Charlie’s Angels”
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Charlie’s Angels investigates a hostile takeover of a company that involves the suspicious deaths of several company board members. Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) and Kris (Cheryl Ladd) are sent undercover to the company to investigate while Julie Rogers (Tanya Roberts) attempts to infiltrate Reardon Associates, which had supplied many of the company’s staff. What they find is a conspiracy combining hypnosis and murder
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‘Nix on Hypnotricks’ — Popeye the Sailor
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033956/] Description: Sinister hypnotist Professor I. Stare (Hypnotist "10¢ a Trance") is practicing his hypnotism on a goldfish but the goldfish isn't cooperating. Instead, he fumes, he wants a human…
This Week in Comics — Free Comics Saturday
Free Comics Saturday happens the first Saturday in May. Its an opportunity for publishers to introduce new readers to their publications and a chance for comics stores to draw a…
“Magic Knight Rayearth”
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In “Magic Knight Rayearth”, three Japanese high school girls are transported to the fantasy realm of Cephiro on a mission to save it and rescue Princess Emeraude from the grasp of the evil High Priest Zagato.
Except its not that easy, nor is it that cut-and-dried. Zagato has a host of followers to attack and divert the three girls on their mission to gain the power they need to complete their task; in addition, there’s another story behind the one before them, one that will result in pain and suffering for all involved.
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Its … Hoopnotic!
It goes around and around and around, like a hypnotic spiral. Its the hula hoop, the 50+ year old children's toy that is now the latest craze. And one person…
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“Favorite Stories of Hypnotism” by Don Ward, editor
The stories cover a wide range of modes from humorous and comedic to dramatic to mystery / suspense to horror and represent hypnosis from completely natural to the supernatural in scope and application.