WILD ABOUT HARRY

While on a recent research trip for my next book , I passed through Boston, which is a fantastic city for Houdini locations. Among these is ...

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

Boston was wild about Houdini from the start. We are all familiar with his record-breaking runs at Keith's Theatre on Tremont Street dur...

Houdini spent much of 1924 making his case against the practices of fraudulent spirit mediums as an author, scholar, and lecturer. But at th...

On May 16, 1925, Houdini attended The Boston Traveler 's Greater Boston marbles championship. There, he witnessed young Jack Walkenstein...

David Britland at Cardopolis has written an excellent account of Houdini's famous escape from a "sea monster" in Boston. It...

Let's mark the anniversary today of Houdini's jump from the Harvard Bridge in Boston with this account of the stunt from the Boston ...

During Houdini's run in Boston in May 1908 he gave a special performance for students at Harvard University. But there was a slight snaf...

What better way to wrap up 2022 than with an unpublished photo of Houdini that also provides a peek at an unknown poster.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 a photo of Houdini with the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt a.k.a. "The Divine Sarah". This image has appeared in ...

It's not generally known that Houdini and Margery almost had a second seance room encounter--a rematch, if you will--in September 1926 w...

Here's an excellent article by Steve Annearin about Houdini's famous escape from the carcass of a "sea monster" in 1911. S...

One of Houdini's go-to challenges was to be tied with heavy rope by Navy sailors or seamen of some sort. The precise manner in which Hou...

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