WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's an excellent new documentary from PBS station WQLN about Harry Kellar. Great interviews and good Houdini content as well. Enjoy. ...

Just a reminder that the acclaimed play Houdini Speaks to the Living will be at the House of Magic's Smoke & Mirror Theatre in Glen...

Magician  Humphrey Cornthwaite  will perform a one-man show,  They Come To Watch Me Die ,  at Smith’s Alternative in Canberra, Australia, on...

Our friend Joe Notaro has a full report on this year's Magic Collector Expo, with all the Houdini highlights. Click the headline or the ...

Our friend and collector, Fred Pittella, has released two new pieces of Houdini merchandise memorabilia. The first is a high-quality bookmar...

My new store and publishing imprint, Wild About Harry PRESS , is doing well. I've sold out of my stock of signed and sealed Escaping Obs...

The centenary books keep coming! David Haversat has announced the publication of A Strenuous Career: The Personal Challenge and Advertisemen...

I've already talked about how I was bitten by the Houdini bug in late 1975 after the one-two punch of seeing Houdini (1953) and Doug He...

Our good friend Dr. Bruce Averbook will receive the 2026 Milbourne Christopher Award for Magic History Preservationist. This is certainly d...

Houdini's best silent film, The Grim Game (1919), will screen this Friday, May 15 at 6:30 PM, at the New York Public Library 's Brun...

Every month, I offer my patrons a special reward as thanks for their support. This month, I'm offering a double reward. The first is the...

It was 100 years ago today that Houdini completed the first tour of his full evening "3 Shows in One" in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....

A new play, Houdini Historia De Una Muerte (Houdini: Story of a Death), opens tomorrow, May 9, at the Flumen Theatre in Valencia, Spain, and...

Charles Greene III's new book, Exposing Houdini: 52 Lost Glass Plate Images , is available now from his website ioniasecrets.com . Charl...