Strange Command by J. Stewart Smith

Excerpt from the Foreword:

This book is intended for those men who have made a study of card magic. To be magic, the viewers are unaware of the use of any methods ... the effect apparently just happens and the performer seems to be only an instrument of the supernatural. Certain death to magic follows any contraventions of these principles.

Foreword
It Is Certain To Happen
The Notorious Society
Nebuchadnezzar’s Nightmare
Occult Powers In Full Force
Unfriendly Influence
The Offensive Jacks
An Unexplainable Purpose
So Great Is Its Power
This Strange Mystery
Within The Realm Of The Miraculous
A Fancy-Free Card Has No Existence
1st edition 1966, 28 pages; PDF 27 pages.
word count: 8213 which is equivalent to 32 standard pages of text