WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's a nice clipping of Houdini doing a suspended straitjacket escape from the Seattle Times building on October 19, 1915. This was d...

One of the more engrained Houdini myths is that his interest in spiritualism and crusade against fakes began with his mother's death in ...

One of the things Hollywood gets wrong about Houdini is showing him bellowing onstage how no one ("Not even God!!!") can hold him ...

Continuing my issue by issue look back at the Mystifier , the newsletter of the Houdini Historical Center that ran from 1991-2003. Th...

Yar, The Primeval Man is treatment for an unmade film that Houdini wrote in 1921. You can read Part I HERE . Below we conclude the saga of ...

In 1921 Houdini wrote a treatment for a proposed movie called  Yar, The Primeval Man . It was never made, which might have been for the best...

One of the more curious and unknown aspects of Houdini's career is that he published several works of short fiction. The first of these...

Today sees the opening of  Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic at the Wellcome Collection in London. The exhibition includes some sp...

Houdini buffs have long discussed the question of Houdini's two birthdays. While Houdini celebrated it on April 6, his birth certifica...

Remember that scene in the Houdini miniseries in which Bess (Kristen Connolly) sits on the lap of a soldier at a party and Houdini (Adri...

On Wednesday I had the great pleasure of seeing Teller's Tempest at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, thanks to the generosity ...

In the interview posted on Screen World News last week , producer Gerald W. Abrams revealed that screenwriter Nicholas Meyer "adapted...

Joe Fox found this tidbit in the November 1941 issue of Genii . It appeared in "Odd Magical Facts" by Frank Fewins. It's a gre...