Joseph McCabe

Podmore）写道，大部分的玩火表演都可以很容易地通过戏法和花招进行，但幻觉和感觉欺骗可能解释了克鲁克斯所声称关于观察到霍姆手指冒火的说法。 约瑟夫·麦凯布（英语：Joseph McCabe）写道，霍姆的控火技艺很弱且并不令人满意，他提到，表演是在黑暗的环境中且在一群不可靠的观众目击下进行的。麦凯布认为火中取出的碳可能是“霍姆口袋里的一块石棉”。

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for the character he said "He looks like Peter Murphy from Bauhaus."  Joseph McCabe (编). Hanging out with the dream king: conversations with Neil Gaiman