WILD ABOUT HARRY

As a kid, I really loved Houdini: Master of Escape  (1960) by Lace Kendall. I call it the alternative gateway . So I was happy to see there...

Today is an important anniversary for me. It was 50 years ago, on November 16, 1975, that I saw the Tony Curtis Houdini biopic on televisio...

One of the exciting pieces of news to come out of the 99th anniversary celebrations was Thomas Ewing's announcement that next year he an...

The Houdini community is fortunate to have many generous collectors who open their doors to researchers and biographers. I know I have benef...

While reading Houdini: His Life Story by Harold Kellock recently, the following paragraph jumped out at me as containing an intriguing myste...

Magician Jeffrey Alan has shared to Facebook an exciting discovery he made recently at the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan. ...

I'm happy to report that my WILD ABOUT HARRY Patreon is one month old and going strong with 36 members. As I did last month, I'm of...

This week I launched WILD ABOUT HARRY on Patreon  and I've been thrilled with the early response. So as a special thank you to my first ...

Here's a fun review of William Lindsay Gresham's 1959 biography Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls by McNulty's Book Cor...

Harry Houdini by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara with illustrations by Juliana Vido is released today. This is the 99th book in the popular Lit...

This Friday Searchlight Pictures releases a new film adaptation of  Nightmare Alley starring Bradley Cooper. What's this have to do wit...

With all the Halloween happenings, I somehow missed this wonderful post by Tom Interval at Interval Magic . If you did as well, click the he...

Professor Solomon is back with the fourth volume in his Lives of the Conjurers series. This time the focus is on Houdini and Spiritualism ....

An unabridged CD audiobook of Adam Begley's Houdini: The Elusive American is released today by Tantor and Blackstone Publishing. It is ...

Harry Houdini Boy Magician by Kathryn Kilby Borland and Helen Ross Speicher is a book that seems like an outlier in the world of Houdini ju...

Here's a wonderful letter from noted novelist William Lindsay Gresham, who we know as the author of Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through ...

The paperback edition of Joe Posnanski's The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini is released today. The paperback features the same cov...

Looks like we have another new Houdini book for 2020!  The Great Harry Houdini by Claire Golding is released by Heinemann as part of thei...

Houdini: The Elusive American by Adam Begley is not a biography out to break new ground. It's an entry level biography in the traditi...

Today sees the release of Houdini: The Elusive American by Adam Begley. The book is part of the Jewish Lives series from Yale University Pr...