WILD ABOUT HARRY

Last year, I was honored to receive the New England Magic Collectors Association Founders Award for 2025. You can now read an interview I d...

I'm excited to see a review of Escaping Obscurity: The Travel Diary of Harry Houdini, 1897-1899 in the September issue of Genii magazi...

Here's an eBay oddity that caught my attention. This is a 1980 fanzine produced in Bristol, England, called HOUDINI. It's not a maga...

The March/April 2025 issue of Skeptical Inquirer  magazine has a cover story by Jason Emerson about how spiritualists tried to claim Preside...

This is exciting. Joe Notaro and Arthur Moses have teamed up to bring the elusive Kinema Comic series The Amazing Exploits of Houdini to pr...

You may have noticed that the February GENII magazine is sporting an all-new look. That's because this is the first issue under the new...

If you're a Houdini fan and an IBM member, then you will be happy with the April 2024 issue of The Linking Ring . The magazine contains ...

The mighty Arthur Moses has released  Houdini Periodical Bibliography References From 1898 - 2023: Revised Third Edition . First released in...

The Mirror Handcuffs Challenge is the gift that keeps giving. There are still many mysteries and unanswered questions about this seminal e...

Last week I shared the exciting news that David Haversat had acquired photo albums that once belonged to Foster Lardner. For 26 years Lardn...

In 2020, Joe Notaro acquired Houdini's own bound volume of the serialized story Houdini's Schooldays from the Houdini family. Now J...

Magician and lecturer Paul Draper has written a thoughtful article about collecting magic for Anthropology News magazine. Paul includes hi...

Concluding our 70th Anniversary celebration of Paramount's classic Houdini starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. For many members of th...

The current issue of The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research (Issue 7, 2022) contains two groundbreaking articles about the life,...

Our friend Joe Notaro at Harry Houdini Circumstantial Evidence has made a fantastic discovery in the October 16, 1920 issue of Pictures and...

Just a heads up that the May 2023 issue of  The Linking Ring  includes the story of my recent adventure transferring long unheard audio of H...

Houdini and his chief ghostbuster Rose Mackenberg are featured in the April 2023 issue of the long running children's magazine Highlight...

Two fantastic photos of Houdini demonstrating magic inside his New York home (278) sold on eBay yesterday for $965 and $930. These photos wh...

This original press photo sold in Haversat & Ewing 's latest magic auction for $560.50. There's a lot to love about this image. ...

A collection of Weird Tales magazine stories edited by Jonathan Maberry and Justin Criado is released today. Houdini's "Imprisoned...