Stanley Trotter was born into a working-class family from the East End of London. At the age of thirty he still lived in his parents' house and spent his days working in their pie shop, serving pies and jellied eels to the local cockneys. Utterly unremarkable in every sense of the word, Stanley was a mummy's boy through and though. It was widely accepted that the Trotters had been cursed with a genetic aberration for a son. A chance find in an attic lead to Stanley discovering an ancient tome entitled 'The Art of Hynosis' and Stanley's life suddenly had purpose. As Stanley read the dark words written within the archaic tome, he realised that the better part of his life had passed him by. Twisted with bitterness, he became that most feared of stage performers - the arch hypnotist, The Great