WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's a fun one that's new to me. I'll let it speak for itself. Bangor Daily Commercial , Sept. 27, 1921. By the way, $12,500 i...

While doing some research recently on the awesome Ask Alexander , I came across an "In Memoriam" Houdini penned for his friend Ale...

Philip David Treece at CollectingMagicBooks.com has released a high-quality reprint of Houdini's Magical Rope Ties and Escapes . This ...

In 2020, Joe Notaro acquired Houdini's own bound volume of the serialized story Houdini's Schooldays from the Houdini family. Now J...

What better way to wrap up 2022 than with an unpublished photo of Houdini that also provides a peek at an unknown poster. This gem comes fro...

Here's an interesting "Throwback Thursday" at WNKY News 40 . While I knew about Houdini attending the Jack Dempsey vs. Georges...

Our friend Joe Notaro at Harry Houdini Circumstantial Evidence  recently shared documents from his trip to the Harry Ransom Center related ...

Curious Publications has released what they are calling a "Centennial Edition" of Houdini's Miracle Mongers and Their Methods ...

In 2018, two remarkable reels of Houdini film footage were discovered in the vaults of the Sherman Grinberg Film Library in Los Angel...

In 2018, two remarkable reels of Houdini film footage were discovered in the Sherman Grinberg Film Library in Los Angeles. Last year I...

Even though Houdini had announced his retirement from vaudeville to make movies, in December 1921 he went back on the vaudeville circui...

The "Carvania" as seen in Haldane of the Secret Service . In Houdini's 1923 film,  Haldane of the Secret Service,  Gladys Lesl...

Houdini's 1923 movie Haldane of the Secret Service begins with a sequence set in New York's Washington Square. This is identified b...