The Magic Story

About This Book

This short story was an immediate worldwide sensation when it first appeared in early 1900 in the original Success Magazine. 

The book is in two parts. The "First Part" reveals how The Magic Story was found by a starving artist named Sturtevant. Everyone he told the story to prospered by it. It seemed to change people’s lives for the better ... like magic.

The “Second Part” is the actual Magic Story as found by Sturtevant.

This is a short interesting read, with a lot more build up (the first part) than was required. It’s one of those stories that could have a profound effect on you, or perhaps nothing at all. Two people can listen to the same message, one person can be stirred to motivation, and the other might simply be puzzled by the whoe thing. This story can easily fall into either reaction.

About the Author

Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey (1861 – 1922) was an American dime novelist and pulp fiction writer who was educated at the Havana (N. Y.) Academy, and later was graduated from the Law School of Columbia University. 

He practiced law until an illness laid him up. While recovering he began his hand and writing. It is said that Dey wrote between one thousand and eleven hundred “Nick Carter” stories. Most of his Nick Carter stories appeared under the pseudonyms “A Celebrated Author” and “The Author of ‘Nick Carter.’”

Dey also worked in the newspaper industry as a police reporter, general reporter, special correspondent, and at various editorial desks. 

Two of his earlier books, “The Magic Word” and “The Magic Story,” written in 1899, were extremely popular. 

Broke, and with no market for his stories after the passing of the dime-novel era, Dey shot himself in his room in the Hotel Broztell, New York City, some time in the night of April 25-26, 1922.

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