WILD ABOUT HARRY

Earlier this year our friend Leo Hevia discovered 30 minutes of largely unseen Houdini footage buried in a YouTube video of random magic c...

It's official. You can find Houdini anywhere. He's even hanging around the Museu de la Xocolata (Museum of Chocolate) in Barcelona,...

Here's a fun one. This podcast by sisters Whitney and Lindsey Nelsen assess the overall "hotness" of historical figures. In th...

Today marks my 44th Houdini birthday. It was on this day in 1975 that I saw the Tony Curtis Houdini biopic for the first time. That lit a ...

Great news from the Houdini blogosphere. Jack Coray's Houdini & Hardeen  is back! Here's how Jack explained it in his return pos...

Here's a preview of an episode of Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum that features a young Houdini. The series airs on PBS Kids . ...

At the beginning of this year, thirty remarkable minutes of largely unseen Houdini footage appeared on a YouTube channel run by someone ...

I really enjoyed the new Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon A Time in Hollywood . Not only because I'm a Tarantino fan, but it depicts a b...

The Martin City Telegraph has a very well researched article by Diane Euston about Houdini's history in Kansas City. KC was important ...

In England in 1911 Houdini accepted a challenge in which he was tied to the mouth of a cannon with a lit fuse. While no photos of this es...

Continuing my issue by issue look back at the Mystifier , the newsletter of the Houdini Historical Center that ran from 1991-2003. Th...

Buried in all the Halloween action this year was the release of this bit of Houdini fiction, The Phantom Files: Houdini's Curse by Will...

Here's a video for "Xmas in November" by The Fens. What does this have to do with Houdini? Plenty, and it's pretty histori...

An interesting piece of Houdini history is set to be sold in Haversat & Ewing Galleries latest magic auction November 8-9. I'll let...

We've had our share of Houdini seances, but a Houdini Day of the Dead alter? That's exactly what our friends at the Catalina Isl...