The storied 1926 replica of the Minute Book of Cambridge’s Everlasting Club becomes Outlaw’s first leather-bound book test.

The club boasted Not Even Death Shall Stop Us, and their boast became their curse. By 1769, when the last member ‘died,’ The Everlastinging Club was already infamous. The master of Jesus College, Cambridge, seized the club’s Minute Book, which kept an account of their meetings. He locked it safely away and gave strict orders that it should never be opened. In 1926 the ‘old superstitions’ were discarded and the Minute Book was included in a published series of obscure college papers. Only then did the true nature of The Club’s Damnation become apparent.

You hold in your hand that 1926 volume. The book collector will tell you that it is a 144-page, ¾ red Moroccan bonded-leather, gold-stamped volume in very fine condition. But you know better: it is a portal.

To open this book is to call back those cursed spirits and force them to reenact their hell-fire offenses forever.

Outlaw Effects is proud to offer you PHANTOMS: The Minute Book of the Everlasting Club, a wholly new concept in Outlaw book tests devised and written by Professor BC, the mind that brought you So Dark: The Colney Hatch Experiment, 1934-1936 as well as the Ipswich performance manual and the augmented Lillian instructional booklet.

Outlaw’s first leather bound book test looks like it could be from the private library of a Cambridge don.

PHANTOMS is 144 pages long and 100% examinable. It can even be read cover-to-cover without tipping the method.

There are no forces employed.

You do not control the spectator at any time.

It is an absolutely free choice of any page.

There are no "banks", no Svengali principle or short pages used.

You never know a page number, you do not peek the book.

The only thing used is the book.

With this book in her hands, the spectator becomes a channel to the other world. As she looks at the page you suddenly see the meeting taking place, the specific men who attended, their full names, where they sat, what they discussed. As if the fog of two hundred years has lifted, you know the month, the day, the exact year, the very hour of their meeting. It is as if you are in the room with them as you reveal their moods and tensions—you can even see the rain on the window or hear the wind blowing in the chimney. As you describe the unique image on the opposite page it becomes clear to your audience that the phantoms of the eighteenth century are truly in the room with you. This may be more than mind reading. Could it be actual contact?

In short, you completely recreate their fiendish meeting—going so far as to set up the room in the exact configuration of the meeting that occurred over two hundred years ago.

The book moves chronologically from meeting to meeting, month to month, year to year. Each meeting is unique, yet you are always in complete control of how much or how little you reveal.

PHANTOMS can be used in séance, bizarre, or mind reading performances.

The presentation can be as dark or light as you wish to make it; it is up to the performer to decide. Every page in the book is hand aged. The cover is lovingly aged and lightly distressed, a red ¾ bonded leather, aged with the same expertise you have come to expect in an Outlaw product.

PHANTOMS comes complete with an instruction/performance manual e-book over 125 pages in length written by the creator of PHANTOMS, Professor BC. The performance manual includes routines for the séance room, bizarre presentation, and mind reading act; printable props; full routines for Tarot readings, Konxari readings, and Ouija sessions; performance tips and tricks; and a script for a fully staged performance of PHANTOMS.

For your back story, the manual includes the 1910 short story that inspired the creation of PHANTOMS, written by Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

There will also be a private PHANTOMS forum for all purchasers to share additional ideas and thoughts.

This book is a must have for the professional performer, hobbyist, and collector alike.

In stock August 1st 2010