Mystery (pickup artist)

Mystery

Occupation	Pickup instructor, performer
Years active	late 1990s–2010s
Known for	Mystery Method, peacocking, negging; subject of The Game

Mystery (Erik von Markovik) is the Canadian pickup instructor who turned club seduction into a branded stepwise method. He is the origin point for DHV, IOI, negging, peacocking, and the A1–S3 pipeline. Neil Strauss's The Game made him famous outside the forums.

See also

• Mystery Method
• The Game (book)
• Pickup artist

Sources

• Erik von Markovik, The Mystery Method (2007).
• Neil Strauss, The Game (2005).