Dr Nik Taylor is a performer, writer, director and producer whose work, in both live and digital media, spans performance magic, sideshow, and immersive theatre. He has advised on performance projects worldwide and is editor of the Journal of Performance Magic.
Among his performances:
Nik Taylor, ‘The Davenports Play Huddersfield’ (unpublished Performance presented at the Conan Doyle, Houdini, and the Davenport Brothers: the Huddersfield Connection, The University of Huddersfield, 24 June 2022).
Séance: A View Through the Veil, dir. by David Crowley (Steel Films, 2021).
Taylor, Nicholas, ‘Performing Real Magic(K): The Conjurer and Audience in Bizarre Magick’ (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2020)
———, ‘“Strange Ceremonies”: Creating Imaginative Spaces in Bizarre Magick’, The Luminary, 2016, 54–63
Taylor, Nik, ‘Impersonating Spirits: The Paranormal Entertainer and the Dramaturgy of the Gothic Séance’, in New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic (New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 163–74
———, ‘Magic and Broken Knowledge; Reflections on the Practice of Bizarre Magick’, Journal of Performance Magic, 5 (2018) [accessed11 October 2024]
Taylor, Nik and Stuart Nolan, ‘Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-Inventing the Gothic Personae in Bizarre Magic’, in Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, ed. by Fred Botting and Catherine Spooner, International Gothic (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. 128–42
Taylor, Nik, ‘Mashing up Magick: Bizarre Magick and the Fuzzy Gothic’, in Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling, ed. by Natalie Neill, Lexington Books Horror Studies (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022), pp. 189–204