It is a personal policy of mine that I do not sleep with anyone that much younger than me. It’s a weird loophole when you start time travelling to have sex with a famous magician before he’s famous. Am I nine years older than this man? He dies at the age of fifty-two almost a century ago. (My time.)
I think it’s fine.
That’s how I ended up here, in the back seat of this ‘car’, with nineteen year old Harry Houdini’s hands up my shirt. I was a little afraid that vaudeville would include more make up. I draw the line at f***ing a clown in a car. Or actually… I don’t know. That sounds sort of fun. Maybe I shouldn’t draw so many lines.
The Master Mystery is the novelization of a 1919 silent serial film told in 15 episodes from scenarios written by Arthur B. Reeve in collaboration with Charles A. Logue. The film stars Harry Houdini and is also known as "Houdini Super-serial." It tells the story of Justice Department agent Quentin Locke as he investigates a powerful cartel protected by The Automaton, a robot.
This eBook is illustrated with all the photographic reproduction that appeared in the original book edition by GROSSET & DUNLAP, NEW YORK, 1919.
"The book itself is a current Houdini biography, BUT I tried to write a really true and accurate story and right some wrong of earlier biographies. To achieve this goal I tried to gather information from trustful sources, like your blog for example. I also used as a source some excellent books like Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss by Kenneth Silverman, HOUDINI by Milbourne Christopher and Houdini The Man Who Walked Through Walls; all the Walter Gibson’s classics and some specifics ones like The British Tours by Derek Tait. I also bought directly from Patrick Culliton Houdini The Key, which by the way really amazed me.
The main goal was try to offer a full, complete and, most important, accurate Houdini biography to the all those Spanish and Portuguese native speakers who never had the chance to read a full book about his life and career. And they are a lot of people!!!"
A strange occurrence in a small magic shop sets into motion a series of events that leads to the impossible. After all, it’s no easy task to return from the grave—even for Houdini. But with the help of a few hand-selected if unwitting accomplices and the guidance of a secret notebook penned years ago, the impossible could become reality. And when modern science finally catches up to Houdini’s vision, the legendary magician who once escaped from ropes, handcuffs and straightjackets, may finally escape the bonds of death. To help him accomplish this, however, the Great Houdini will have to rely on the person who doubts him the most.
Young lawyer Arthur Jeffries travels out west in the 1890s to locate some fortunate individuals who are unaware they have inherited wealth. Finding them is easy but extricating them from jail or worse seems impossible. That is, until Arthur meets an unknown magician named Houdini who reveals the secrets of mind reading, handcuff escapes, disappearing from a locked trunk, and the Indian Fakir Mind Control. Arthur puts this knowledge to good use on behalf of his clients.
When she wasn’t being shunted from one foster home to the next, Piper Weiss spent the first twelve years of her life in an orphanage. But everything changes when a dark stranger shows up claiming to be her father. Things get even weirder when Piper is taken to live with her uncle, who happens to be the world-famous magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini. And Houdini is not at all pleased about having a curious twelve-year-old running around his home.
Piper attends school, gets detention on her first day, and meets some friends who will help her unravel the clues to her mysterious past. But something sinister and powerful has been unleashed in New York, an evil force hell-bent on bringing about the Apocalypse. Sideshow freaks are being murdered and it all seems to be leading to a dark ritual started twelve years earlier—the day Piper was born. How can Piper defeat this malevolent entity when she may be the reason for its very existence?
Piper Houdini: Apprentice of Coney Island is a young adult novel set in the Roaring Twenties against the hustling and bustling background of New York’s Coney Island—a time filled with silent movies, secret speakeasies, and an unscrupulous Spiritualist movement that is the unwitting pawn in a plot to bring about hell on Earth. Populated with a cast of actual historical figures—including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dion Fortune, and Aleister Crowley—this spine-tingling tale will appeal to readers who enjoy urban fantasy and paranormal historical fiction as much as a jaunt on the Wonder Wheel.
Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls, first published in 1959, is a fascinating look at the life and career of magician and escape-artist Harry Houdini (1874-1926). Author William Gresham interviewed many people who knew Houdini personally, adding greatly to the book's accuracy and authoritativeness, and he also reviewed all of the available books, and newspaper and magazine articles on the magician. Gresham explains many of Houdini's illusions, and debunks some of the many myths surrounding the performer. Houdini's interest in the supernatural is examined, as are his efforts to expose the many fraudulent mediums and spiritualists of the time. Included are 8 pages of photographs.
Truth or trickery? This is the fascinating history of a true man of mystery who charmed, confounded and inspired legions of fans, both during life and after death. Most intriguing of all was Houdini’s secret: the red magic that was hinted to be both supernatural and commonplace. Was Houdini’s secret his means of projecting and protecting such superhuman powers? Or was such power no more than the secret itself?
He was the Handcuff King and the Greatest Showman alive, but would Harry Houdini walk away from it all the night he was attacked and became a vampire, or would he ‘come out of the coffin’ and make it all part of his act?
And how would his staunchly-Catholic wife, Bess, react when her Jewish husband rises from the dead?
An eNovelette for fans of Houdini, as well as fans of Stoker-style vampires.
Harry Houdini was one of the most famous magicians and escape artists in the world. He could escape from just about anything. Harry could escape from a locked coffin. He could escape from a sealed container submerged in the ocean...while handcuffed and shackled. He even escaped from a milk can full of water and shut by 6 heavy-duty padlocks.
Start reading and discover...
* Why Harry Houdini was so famous.
* What inspired Harry to become a professional magician when he was only 9 years old.
* How Harry learned to escape from any lock in the world.
* How Harry became one of the most famous persons in the world.
* Why the Milk Can Escape became so popular...even though it was probably the easiest of all Harry's escape.
* What Harry did when four English sailors pointed a loaded cannon right at him.
* How Harry amazed audiences by walking right through a brick wall.
* How Harry escaped from a straightjacket...while hanging upside down hundreds of feet in the air.
...and Much More!
So start reading and discover the incredible story of how Harry Houdini rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most famous magicians in history.
Do you love magic? Do you want to perform your own magical act?
Harry Houdini is one of the most well-known illusionists and stunt performers of all time. He would perform dangerous acts in front of audiences who would pay to see his bravery and amazing magical skills. Houdini was particularly good at escape acts. He would trap himself in very risky and difficult conditions like being locked up, restrained, contained, hung upside down, put into tanks of water and even thrown overboard from a ship - situations that would seem impossible to escape from. And Harry would always manage to free himself and leave his audiences shocked and in awe.
But who was Harry Houdini, the man who was so confident in his abilities he was willing to bet his life on it? In “Who was Harry Houdini?” you will find out about the man behind the curtain. You will discover about his early life, his family and his wife. You will also of course learn about his show stopping escape acts that had enchanted the world.
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