Not the story you are looking for, but Paul Gallico’s The Man Who Was Magic is kind of the reverse of that idea (it’s a world of “stage” magicians, and a real magician turns up…) Gorgeous fable that has some haunting imagery.
Not the story you are looking for, but Paul Gallico’s The Man Who Was Magic is kind of the reverse of that idea (it’s a world of “stage” magicians, and a real magician turns up…) Gorgeous fable that has some haunting imagery.