WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's some great news that I received over the Christmas break. The building that once housed Houdini's Film Developing Corporation...

This video from the YouTube channel Weird And The Wonderful includes a unique and surprising Houdini collectible. It comes up right at the ...

The April 2021 issue of The Linking Ring comntains an article by yours truly about Houdini's Film Developing Corporation, his "not...

It doesn't get much attention in biographies, but the Film Developing Corporation, a.k.a. FDC, was a major part of Houdini's (and...

Today is the birthday of Houdini's brother Theo. Hardeen, born on March 4, 1876 in Budapest, Hungary. For the occasion, I thought I'...

Here's a mystery for the end of the month. This appeared in the November 12, 1924 issue of The Film Daily and shows Houdini formed some...

Last weekend I traveled to New York City to speak at the New-York Historical Society . It was a fantastic trip filled with Houdini sights an...

An 1896 playbill clipping for the Marco Magic Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia, sold today at Potter & Potter 's The Magic Collecti...

I'll be darned. Our friend Perry in New Jersey has discovered a new website for the building at 216 19th St. in Union City, which was o...

For Labor Day, I couldn't resist sharing this amazing image of Houdini in his New Jersey workshop preparing magic apparatus for his 1925...

Welcome to another year of WILD ABOUT HARRY! Let's kick off 2016 with a look back at what Houdini himself was up to 100 years ago. ...

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Rick Schmidlin who produced the TCM restoration of Houdini's The Grim Game . I posted my ...

Here's a remarkable article from the January 21, 1917 Oakland Tribune announcing the retirement of Theo. Hardeen from show business. Th...

Perry from New Jersey, a self-described "Houdini freak the past 40 years", recently took a photo safari on our behalf and returned...