WILD ABOUT HARRY

Every month, I offer my patrons a special reward as thanks for their support. This month, I'm offering a double reward. The first is the...

Let's cap our Weird Week with this weird one. Here is the famous photo of Houdini and Dorothy Young performing Radio of 1950 as it appe...

World Champion Escape Artist Andrew Basso  from  The illusionists is now the owner of a true Houdini holy relic. It's a tuxedo shirt co...

For some reason I'm feeling nostalgic for the documentary Houdini: The Great Escape , which first appeared as part of the popular A...

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

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

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

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

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

If the 1970s was a boom time for Houdini books, then the 1990s was the heyday of Houdini documentaries. This was largely due to the prolif...

Here's the Houdini episode of the E! Entertainment series Mysteries & Scandals . This first aired on October 26, 1998 and includes i...

This year The Official Houdini Seance was held at the Glen Magna Farms in Danvers, Massachusetts, the country estate owned by the Danvers...

Larry Weeks, who passed away  this month at age 95, was a regular at the Official Houdini Seances. Now seance organizer William Radner send...

Here is a magnificent unpublished photo of Hardeen performing Houdini's "Radio of 1950" illusion. This comes from the collecti...

There are multiple versions of how Houdini and Bess met. Bess told her version in the book  Houdini His Life Story (1928). According to ...

The Good Men Project has posted a new poem by Amy Schreibman Walter called Houdini's Women . The poem celebrates Bess Houdini and Dor...

The PBS American Experience documentary HOUDINI is released today on DVD. It was first broadcast on January 24, 2000, and until now has o...

On April 6, 2000, Rhoda Newman of the Monmouth Library interviewed Dorothy Young as part of the library's Remembering the 20th Centu...