WILD ABOUT HARRY

One of the highlights of my recent trip to Appleton, Wisconsin, was visiting the History Museum at the Castle and being given the opportuni...

The events keep coming! The New York Magic Conference , in cooperation with the Houdini Museum in Scranton, will hold a three-day seminar de...

A new paperback edition of Ann Hood's The Treasure Chest: Harry Houdini #4: Prince of Air is released today by Penguin Workshop. When t...

The book is out, but the discoveries continue! In Escaping Obscurity: The Travel Diary of Harry Houdini 1897-1899 , we did our best to decip...

Today sees the release of The Houdini Inheritance by Emma Carroll. Aimed at young readers, the book has a nice premise and a nice cover. Th...

I'm marking Harry and Bess Houdini's 129th anniversary on my Patreon today with a very special rarity from the Harry Ransom Center ....

Ultrarunner Todd Aydelotte has clocked another in his series of historic Houdini runs in New York City. This time he's in Coney Island. ...

Our friend Dean Carnegie shares on his Magic Detective blog some Houdini (1953) history that I've completely missed in my current Deco...

Recently I came across a terrific 1927 interview with George Robinson, the salty managing director of the New Brighton Theatre in Brighton B...

To celebrate Bess Houdini's 146th birthday today, here are some excerpts from terrific interesting article by Sally MacDougall called ...

A distressing report from our friends at Coney Island History Project . No doubt Harry and Bess Houdini would have known this building well....

Today I continue my scene by scene dissection of Paramount's 1953 biopic Houdini , in which I'll attempt to make the case that it...

We all know Houdini played Coney Island in his early days. In fact, Coney Island is where he famously met Bess . But once Houdini became ...

Continuing my look back at the Mystifier , the quarterly newsletter of the Houdini Historical Center that ran from 1991-2003. The sec...

Today is the 123rd wedding anniversary of Harry and Bess Houdini. The couple married on June 22, 1894 in Coney Island where they were bot...

Glenn Herdling's second Piper Houdini adventure, Piper Houdini: Nightmare on Esopus Island,  is now available in  hardcover  and  paperb...

Adam Steinfeld's short film HOUDINI...Talks Houdini will screen at the 16th annual Coney Island Film Festival on September 17 at 7:00 ...

Today is the 122nd wedding anniversary of Harry and Bess Houdini. The couple married on June 22, 1894. Or did they? In recent years, histori...

Glenn Herdling's Piper Houdini: Apprentice of Coney Island is now available in hardcover and paperback. It had previously only been rel...

Harry and Bess Houdini first met while they were performers at Coney Island in 1894; Harry as part of the Brothers Houdini and Bess with a...