WILD ABOUT HARRY

There are two often-told origin stories about how and when Houdini discovered his skills as a lockpicker. There's the "pies in the ...

Ever hear the one about Harry Houdini and Fleischmann’s Yeast? Sounds like the start of a joke, doesn't it? But it's not. Houdini...

When Houdini ran away from home at age 12, he sent a postcard back to his mother saying he was going to Galveston, Texas. He never made it. ...

Deadline Hollywood has posted this year's Black List, a roundup of Hollywood’s "most-liked unproduced screenplays." Coming in...

Here's a fun one from Houdini's home town of Appleton, Wisconsin. This Wednesday, November 16, between 4-7pm, if you mention "H...

I had planned on holding this back until Houdini's birthday. But I've decided to run with it today as the reaction to my first post ...

We've all read the story of how young Ehrich Weiss apprenticed to a locksmith in Appleton, Wisconsin. One day the sheriff came in with a...

Ruth Brandon's 1993 biography, The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini , is not a book I reference often. Silverman and Christopher ...

Houdini always marked October 28, 1883 as the day he made his professional show business debut. Because it was on this day exactly 135 years...

Tom Interval has update his blog Houdini Museum with a brilliantly researched and superbly written examination of Houdini father, Mayer S...

Our friend David Saltman of The Houdini File continues to uncover incredible new information about Houdini's father, Mayer Samuel Wei...

Our friend David Saltman is sharing on his blog The Houdini File information he recently uncovered and revealed at the Official Houdini ...

Our friend David Saltman of The Houdini File recently traveled to Appleton, Wisconsin and has filed some interesting reports. Not only di...

It's part of the established Houdini story that his father, Mayer Samuel Weiss, lost his job as the Rabbi in Appleton, Wisconsin becau...

Our friend David Saltman has posted another must read on his blog The Houdini File . This time David shares the results of his investigation...

Our good friend David Saltman is tackling on his blog The Houdini File a part of Houdini's history that is vastly under-researched. I...

Author and historian David Saltman has published another installment in his series, "Who was Houdini's father?" on his blo...

Author and historian David Saltman is investigating the mystery and history of Houdini's father, Mayer Samuel Weiss. David has uncover...