WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's a nice find from the October 18, 1976 Welland Evening Tribune . This photo was taken at the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame in Niaga...

Our friend Tom Interval at  Interval Magic  reminds me that today marks a grim anniversary. It was 30 years ago tonight that the Houdini Mag...

Houdini's Water Torture Cell made its last public appearance on the night of October 11, 1926, in Albany, New York. This was the night H...

Here's a photo from the July 27, 1974 Buffalo Evening News showing how the Water Torture Cell was displayed at the Houdini Magical Hall...

David Muller, author of Growing Up With Houdini , recently sent me an extraordinary recording of Joseph Dunninger verbally cataloging his en...

One of the more unusual pieces of surviving Houdini apparatus is his "Cross Escape." There are actually two crosses. One is gaffed...

The book Growing Up With Houdini , David Muller's wonderful remembrance of his family and the creation of the Houdini Magical Hall of Fa...

Over the weekend a poster for Houdini's 1908 appearance at the Circus Brusch in Germany sold on eBay. I mentioned that I had seen that p...

A rare playbill for Houdini at the Circus Busch in Berlin in 1908 sold in a one day Buy It Now auction on eBay yesterday. It was initially l...

Near the end of Houdini (1953) we see Tony Curtis' Houdini challenged to escape from what the movie calls "a steel straitjacket....

It was one year ago that Richard Sherry & Dayle Krall made the remarkable discovery of a working Water Torture Cell in Canada. The cell...

David Muller, son of the late Henry Muller, has written a new book called Growing Up With Houdini . It's a wonderful work that tells the...

On last Sunday's Magic Collectors' Corner ZOOM conference, Roger Dreyer gave a tour of his amazing Houdini Museum of New York at Fa...

Richard Sherry, who in February revealed himself as the owner of what we've come to call the "Canadian Mystery Cell", shared t...

Today our friend Tom Frueh shares with us photos he took of the original Houdini Water Torture Cell in the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame in 1...

The famous Iron Box seen in Houdini (1953) and a Milk Can that just might be the can Houdini used for his Double Fold Death Defying Myst...

Here's a well done video by Caitlin Jane to kick off my special Halloween week of "Ghost Posts." She might not have all her fa...

This remarkable oversized photo of Houdini, Bess, and Cecelia Weiss recently sold on eBay for $2,399.50. While a familiar image, this photo,...

A handwritten Houdini oath of secrecy signed by locksmith Gilbert Dawes and witnessed by Franz Kukol sold on eBay over the weekend for $988...

One of my last (and most popular) posts of 2018 was about Houdini's little discussed membership in the Circumnavigators Club . Now club ...