WILD ABOUT HARRY

A deck of playing cards purported to have belonged to Houdini in his early years sold for $35,000 (43K including premium) at a Goldin auctio...

Potter & Potter held their fourth auction of memorabilia from Ken Klosterman's The Salon de Magie yesterday. One lot that really ca...

The bidding was fast and furious at Potter & Potter's auction of Houdiniana and Magic Memorabilia today. As expected, the Houdini t...

If you watched the latest episode of Ghost Adventures: The Houdini Seance , you saw I brought a Houdini spirit trumpet to the investigation ...

Here's one that has me scratching my head. Is this Harry Kellar? Is it Houdini? Did it belong to Houdini? Is it worth anywhere near what...

As promised, here's what was inside the mystery box that I posted on Tuesday. This is a beautiful reproduction of the famed Steel Strai...

Continuing my scene-by-scene dissection of the 1953 biopic HOUDINI starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Last time , Houdini acquired a new ...

We are fast approaching the centenary of Houdini's famous seances with Mina Crandon, aka Margery, in Boston. During this high-stakes b...

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...

The original Metamorphosis prop trunk used in the 1976 television biopic The Great Houdinis sold at Heritage auctions on March 20 for $2,62...

Here's a well-researched post about the Boyertown Burial Casket Company on the blog MarkerQuest by Laura Klotz. Boyertown made the cask...

A spirit cabinet effect that Houdini performed as a "near perfect" escape at the New York Hippodrome in 1925 sold for $50,400 (inc...

In the Houdini Collections at the Harry Ransom Center there is a thick file of letters written to Houdini by Montraville M. Wood. Wood was ...

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...