WILD ABOUT HARRY

It was 100 years ago today that Houdini opened his full evening  3 Shows in One  at the Alvin Theatre in Pittsburgh with a special Labor Day...

Check out this terrific video by magician and musician Rob Zabrecky. It starts off with Houdini and continues with other magic masters and s...

There was a fair amount of Houdini excitement over the holidays, but nothing more exciting than this. If you watched the PBS series Lucy Wor...

Here's one I almost missed! A new immersive Houdini play, The Spirits Speakeasy , opens tonight, September 19, at Sincerely, Ophelia in ...

A new exhibition, Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums , opens tomorrow, September 14, at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem,...

Today marks the anniversary of Houdini's The Grim Game opening at B.S. Moss' Broadway Theater in New York City on August 25, 1919. ...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the death of Houdini in this well-researched audio play by Scott McQuaid and Pop Up Theater. I re...

This is the 2019 Houdini Commemorative Reproduction print created by the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan. Each year the muse...

When Houdini launched his "3 Shows in One" in 1925, Howard Thurston was touring with the 19th season of his own full evening magic...

New images of Houdini just keep on appearing! Today David Haversat of David Haversat Magic shares news of a recently acquired unpublished p...

In 2010 Mike Elizalde's special effects house Spectral Motion launched their amazing "Magicians Series" of bronze busts. I di...

A clipping from the April 8, 1933 Toronto Star Weekly sold for $67 on eBay over the weekend. The article, "Peril Of Working With A Mag...

Yesterday I retweeted the many Houdini birthday wishes (58) that crossed the various Twitter hashtags. Among them was this standout tweet fr...

Today marks the 76th anniversary of the death of Bess Houdini on February 11, 1943. To mark the occasion, here's an article from Vari...

Here's a podcast from The Bowery Boys discussing "Harry Houdini and the Golden Age of Magic: Spectacle, sorcery and spiritualism in...

Check out what our friend Chuck Romano of Chuck Romano Magic tweeted out yesterday, April Fools Day. Pretty spectacular! Houdini Vanis...

Here's a terrific image I've never seen before posted by Ken Trombly on his magic_posters  Instagram. Quite the gathering! ...

The year 1902 can be characterized as one of the most combative of Houdini's career. Having  proclaimed himself the "Undisputed ...

A sad loss to report. William H. McIlhany has passed away at age 66. Bill was a major magic collector who specialized in historic magic fi...

Reader Bruce East recently alerted me to a connection between Houdini and Coca-Cola that I've never heard before. The following comes fr...