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JobanGrayskull Since: Dec, 2011
2012-10-23 08:52:15

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King? It was a novel and later a miniseries. The article for the miniseries mentions the disappearance being a "magic" act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tommyknockers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tommyknockers_(TV_miniseries)

"Hilly Brown constructs a 'magic machine' which he demonstrates at his birthday party. The device makes several inanimate objects disappear and reappear. But when Hilly makes his brother Davey disappear, the boy doesn't come back."

FloydPinkerton Since: Nov, 2010
2012-10-23 14:14:51

I read a summary of that novel and it's probably what I'm thinking of, although it doesn't mention the boy returning years later, which I thought was part of the plot.

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