The Great Zubrick is a second-string stage hypnotist in Australia who becomes a superstar in Canada. The Last Hypnotist is a sometime priest who graduates from hypnaughtying nuns to entertaining theatre audiences at a time when the UK is the last country in which a stage hypnotist can still find an audience sufficiently credulous to believe that amateur playactors are "hypnotized." William Harwood is the author of 45 books, fiction and nonfiction, and over 600 articles for skeptical and freethought publications in nine countries.