WILD ABOUT HARRY

It was 99 years ago today that Houdini gave his final performance at the Garrick Theater in Detroit on October 24, 1926. Here is a review of...

Houdini was booked at the Garrick Theater in Detroit for two weeks starting Sunday, October 24, 1926. As it turned out, he only did one show...

It was 49 years ago today that I first saw Houdini (1953), and it changed my life. What better day to continue my scene-by-scene dissection...

On the eve of the publication of Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls , this article appeared in the Detroit Free Press . I think we ca...

Jeremy Dimick, the director of collections and curatorial at the Detroit Historical Society, will host a presentation about "Houdini in...

A good article by JC Reindel in the Detroit Free Press about the current efforts to save the building that once housed the funeral parlor w...

I recently discovered an account of Houdini's last show from a man who claims to have been the only person allowed to see Houdini backst...

Here's a new walk-through video of the abandoned building that was once the funeral parlor where Houdini was embalmed. It's in bad s...

The Dearborn Heights City Libraries presents "Just Wild About Harry: Houdini in Detroit" on Tuesday, May 28, at the Caroline Kenn...

Head over to my Patreon today to hear a 1980 audio interview with David Glass, a 76-year-old Detroit magician who knew Houdini. Glass shoot...

Yesterday I shared to my Patreon  an interview recorded by  Jon Oliver  in 1988 with Jack Gibbons who was one of the men who embalmed Houdin...

Over the Halloween weekend I had the pleasure of being a guest on two excellent podcasts,  The Fantastic Story Society  with of our friend S...

It was 96 years ago tonight that Houdini took to the stage for the very last time at the Garrick Theater in Detroit. The below is from the D...

A new interactive play, Hurry Houdini , will debut at Midnight Temple in Detroit on Saturday, July 30 at 8pm. The play features Jake Mate as...

I've done a few posts about the still standing (and haunted?) Wm. R. Hamilton's Funeral Home building in Detroit where Houdini was e...

The website Historic Detroit has a page devoted to Grace Hospital. It gives a brief history of the hospital and its most famous patient. It...

The Muriel Rukeyser Living Archive has organized four staged readings this month of Rukeyser’s 1973 musical play, Houdini. Elisabeth Daume...

The blog Prohibition Detroit has a nice 3-part article by Mickey Lyons about Houdini and Detroit. Each installment includes images from loca...

To mark the 95th anniversary of Houdini's final performance on October 24, American Coney Island in Detroit will hold a celebration fea...

Here's an item from the October 17, 1926 Detroit Free Press announcing Houdini's upcoming appearance at the Garrick Theater. Nothin...