WILD ABOUT HARRY

Houdini performed in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and he rests in peace today in Queens. Staten Island was the only one of the five New Y...

Joe Notaro and Arthur Moses have the honor of being the first to publish a new Houdini book in 2026. Their third volume, reprinting the Kine...

Our good friend Dr. Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theatre and Performing Arts at the Harry Ransom Center, recently spoke at the prestigiou...

Let's kick the week off with some exciting news. Houdini made more than a dozen radio broadcasts from 1922-1926, debunking spiritualism ...

The second volume in Joe Notaro and Arthur Moses's reprints of the Kinema Comic series The Amazing Exploits of Houdini has now been rel...

There was a fair amount of Houdini excitement over the holidays, but nothing more exciting than this. If you watched the PBS series Lucy Wor...

It's a shame none of the actors who worked with Houdini in his movies were ever properly interviewed (to my knowledge). Many of these ac...

Recently, magician Murray Sawchuck has been posting magic exposure videos on his social media. Scott Wells posted an interview with Murray ...

The original spirit message from Houdini's mother delivered via "automatic writing" by Lady Doyle during the famous Atlantic C...

In November 1908, four Chinese men challenged Houdini to escape from a "Sangnau" (alternately spelled Sanguaw or Sangaw) at the Ox...

Two weeks ago I gave a lecture on "Houdini in Cleveland" at the Magic Collectors Expo 2023. After the conference I spent a day vi...