The Magician’s Wife

To celebrate the recent launch of Lora's new novel Second Sight and inspired by the psychic Jones cousins from our last episode, we're giving our listeners a free magic trick! In this bonus episode we present to you a brilliant illusion you can share with all your friends. We explain how you can use a special website to convince everyone that, just like the character from Lora's novel, you also ha...

It is the summer of 1955, and the rugged mountains of Snowdonia, Wales, are about to become the centre of the scientific universe. A highly respected university mathematician discovers two thirteen-year-old cousins who seem to possess a genuine telepathic link. They can transmit thoughts through closed doors, and even at distances of over a hundred feet. Their abilities baffle university professor...

Join Lora and Barry for a very special episode of The Magician’s Wife podcast, to celebrate the launch of Lora’s new novel, Second Sight, the sequel to The Magician’s Wife. Links to buy Second Sight can be found here. Order The Magician's Wife novel here. Download Lora's free novella here: themagicianswife.co.uk/freebook/ Enjoying our podcast? Support us by buying us a 'coffee' here: ko-fi.com/the...

During the summer of 1764, the mountains and forests of southern France run red with blood. A terrifying, oversized beast is slaughtering women and children, yet completely bypassing their flocks of sheep. Panic sweeps the nation, drawing the attention of none other than the king himself. But even royal hunters are powerless against the monster, and over a hundred people die before it is finally s...

One June evening in Oslo, a gunshot suddenly rings out from a room in a luxury hotel. Armed police struggle to breach the door, but when they do, they find it double-locked from the inside. On the bed lies a young woman, dead from a single bullet to the head. The death has the initial appearance of a tragic suicide, until investigators look closer. The mysterious woman has no ID, the labels have b...

In the mist-shrouded Highlands of 17th-century Scotland, a farm labourer peers through a hole in a small, white stone. Through this pebble, he claims to see the future. He sees ships sailing across dry land. He sees a day when the people of the Highlands will be outnumbered by sheep. He even foresees a black rain that will bring unimaginable wealth to the city of Aberdeen, three hundred years in t...

In New York 1908, a husband and wife decorate their tree, only to find that a simple scratch from a pine needle carries a lethal curse. Four years earlier, in New Zealand, a family receives a visit from an assassin who has flown invisibly across the country to find them - and he isn’t Father Christmas. Join our household tradition and listen to Cassetteboy's "Festive Christmas" here. Order The Mag...

It is the night of 19th November , 1995. The sky over the small market town of Wem in Shropshire is glowing a violent orange. The historic Town Hall is burning to the ground. But amidst the roaring flames and falling timbers, a local photographer captures something that shouldn't exist. Developing his film, he finds a clear, black-and-white image of a young girl, standing calmly in the heart of th...

In the dimly lit clinics of the Philippines, psychic surgeons perform the impossible: with only their bare hands, they appear to plunge deep into a patient’s body, pulling out bloody, cancerous tumours before astonished onlookers. The skin is left unbroken, the wound sealed as if by a miracle. But is this a genuine medical marvel, a divine gift of healing, or could it instead be a very clever tric...

In 1914, during a desperate retreat at the Battle of Mons, the British army is on the verge of heavy losses. But as the enemy closes in, a strange vision appears between the two armies: a host of shining angels and ghostly bowmen. The German advance inexplicably falters, and the British are saved. The legend of the Angel of Mons is born, becoming a beacon of hope for the nation. But did soldiers r...

A woman vanishes without trace during a live TV talent show, only to reappear the following week… dead. With threats that more women are in danger, can journalist Clare Deyes and expert-in-deception Mara Knight work out who was behind this baffling murder – and how it was done – before it’s too late? Join Lora and Barry for a very special episode of The Magician’s Wife, to celebrate the launch of...

In the late 1970s, an ordinary American town begins to be plagued by a series of venomous letters. They start by accusing one of the residents of having an affair, but soon escalate into a large-scale campaign of hate. So when a man is imprisoned as the letter-writer, the town breathes a sigh of relief. Yet the letters continue, even with the supposed possessor of the poison pen safely behind bars...

When locals of one of the most isolated villages in Cornwall become concerned for their vicar, they go to his home to investigate, finding the building encircled by barbed wire and fully barricaded. Inside, the vicar lies dead, surrounded by bizarre decor and disturbing slogans scrawled onto the walls – decor and slogans which continue in the village church, where they’re accompanied by a far more...

For this bonus trick, we present to you a brilliant prank you can share with all your friends. An innocent online questionnaire, testing your aptitude to join the secret service, turns out to be a questionnaire that extracts your victim’s most private and personal information. Listen and find out how you can use this questionnaire to fool your friends. Click here to create a link to send to a frie...

On a hot August day, police are called to the residence of a man who has been absent from work for the past week. They find his flat empty, except for a large red holdall which has been padlocked from the outside. When they open the bag, a horrifying sight confronts them: the body of the missing man. The man’s death is later declared accidental. But just how could anyone padlock themselves inside...

On a hot August day, police are called to the residence of a man who has been absent from work for the past week. They find his flat empty, except for a large red holdall which has been padlocked from the outside. When they open the bag, a horrifying sight confronts them: the body of the missing man. The man’s death is later declared accidental. But just how could anyone padlock themselves inside...

In the summer of 1891, an unassuming gentleman walks into the Monte Carlo Casino. He sits down at a roulette table and begins an impossible winning streak, ‘breaking the bank’ ten times over and walking away with a fortune. The world celebrates him as a hero who beat the system. But was this legendary feat a miracle, luck, or was the famous 'Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo' pulling off his g...

During the midsummer solstice of 2025, a strange grinning face suddenly appears in a field next to the historic monument of Stonehenge. This pattern forms the bizarre likeness of a playing card joker. But it is just the latest in a long line of so-called ‘crop circles’ to have materialised in this ancient landscape, some of which have apparently formed in broad daylight in the space of just forty-...

On a damp, dark January day in 1931, a businessman is telephoned by a potential new client, who requests that they meet the following evening. But when the man goes in search of the address he’s been given, he discovers that it doesn’t exist. Furthermore, when he arrives home that night, a truly horrifying scene is awaiting him. His wife has been brutally murdered. And, not only that, but the hous...

On a damp, dark January day in 1931, a businessman is telephoned by a potential new client, who requests that they meet the following evening. But when the man goes in search of the address he’s been given, he discovers that it doesn’t exist. Furthermore, when he arrives home that night, a truly horrifying scene is awaiting him. His wife has been brutally murdered. And, not only that, but the hous...

In the early 18th century, a Scottish Earl languishes in an English cell, in one of the most formidable prisons in the country. The man has been condemned to die a traitor’s death, and his wife travels south to see her husband in prison one last time. However, the following morning and the Earl is gone, vanished, even though the women who entered his cell were also seen exiting it, and were carryi...

In a raging South Carolina storm, a man makes a telephone call with disastrous consequences. An intense bolt of lightning hits his phone line, travelling down the man’s body and blowing him across the room. The man is subsequently declared dead. But, against all the odds, this same man regains consciousness, having had a life-altering near death experience. Furthermore, the man now appears to poss...

Outside a small town in west Texas, a series of supernatural lights are observed. The lights, which seem to materialise from nowhere, behave very strangely: splitting, hovering and receding again before people’s very eyes. Could these eerie illuminations really have their roots in a tragic local legend, or might there be another explanation for the ghostly lights of Anson? Join Lora and Barry as t...

In the early 2000s, a man’s outside security camera records a truly unprecedented sight. A completely peculiar, seemingly other-worldly being, consisting solely of a pair of glowing white legs and a tiny head, is waddling across the man’s front yard. The being’s physical appearance is like no other creature ever recorded. But with the man swearing the footage is real, and a second video emerging l...

In this episode, Barry shares a killer magic trick which you can take part in from the safety of your own home. There’s also a quick update with some exciting bits of upcoming book news! Order The Magician's Wife novel here. Download Lora's free novella here: themagicianswife.co.uk/freebook/ Enjoying our podcast? Support us by buying us a 'coffee' here: ko-fi.com/themagicianswife Email your though...