WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's an interesting find that ties nicely into Thanksgiving today. The New York Herald of November 27, 1891, ran an article covering ...

Over the holidays our friend Benjilini, magician and author of  Benjilini on Houdini , gave a talk at the historic Park East Synagogue in N...

Here we are back in Providence! In November 1925 Houdini brought his "3 Shows in One" to the Providence Opera House. It was Thanks...

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

I recently purchased one of these 3D printed Houdini Christmas Ornaments from BurgerBearShop on Etsy. I love it! Below is a pic of the orna...

The Weiss family landed in America on July 3, 1878, passing through the Castle Garden Emigrant Landing Depot in New York City (Ellis Isla...

The Houdinis 1902 Christmas card--the earliest card that I'm aware of--sold today in Potter and Potter 's "Winter Magic Auction...

As part of their  Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini  programing, the Jewish Museum Milwaukee will screen Paramount's cla...

It was on Thanksgiving day exactly 100 years ago that Houdini tried to play a real life action hero on Catalina Island. Houdini was th...

Here's a video for "Xmas in November" by The Fens. What does this have to do with Houdini? Plenty, and it's pretty histori...

We've had our share of Houdini seances, but a Houdini Day of the Dead alter? That's exactly what our friends at the Catalina Isl...

This needle point was made by Bess Houdini and today hangs in the home of her great-nephew, John C. Hinson . It depicts...well, you know who...

It's time to wrap up 2018, which was a truly amazing year for Houdini. This year saw the sale of 278, four major museum exhibitions, new...

Houdini enjoyed belonging to fraternal clubs such as The Society of American Magicians, The Magicians Club, The Rabbis' Sons' Ben...

Here's a great image of Bess Houdini with her mother, Balbina Rahner, and mother-in-law, Cecelia Weiss, in 1909. The Houdinis took their...

Here's one for Valentine's Day. This appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph , May 5, 1926. So don't pester Harry today! Relat...