WILD ABOUT HARRY

For my money, the best Houdini biopic is the 1976 made for TV movie, The Great Houdinis . Not only does it have an amazing cast, but what ...

Have you ever heard the story of when Groucho Marx went onstage to assist Houdini during his East Indian Needles trick? Well, here's the...

The Battle Creek Enquirer reports that about 20 items from the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan are going to the Houston Museu...

The blog Letters of Note has reprinted and transcribed a five page letter Houdini wrote after his famous 1926 underwater test, in which he ...

Our recent report on The Official Houdini Seance, which took place this year at the former estate of Anna Eva Fay in Melrose MA, featured a...

Did you happen to catch Houdini’s stealth appearance on NBC’s The Office last Thursday? In an episode of Season 6 called “Shareholder Mee...

Art book publisher Taschen has released MAGIC 1400-1950 by Mike Caveney, Jim Steinmeyer, and Ricky Jay. The book was conceived and created ...

This article by Patrick Culliton is published on Patrick’s website Houdini's Ghost and is reprinted here with his permission: Everyo...

Daniel Stashower’s The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man -- a fictional teaming of Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes -- has been reissued ...

Here’s a fantastic Houdini collectible. Australia is minting a limited supply of dollar coins commemorating Houdini’s first flight on that c...

Jim Bentley recreated Houdini’s suspended straitjacket escape in front of the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood on Tuesday. The escape ...

The Boston Globe reports that The Official Houdini Seance took place this year in Melrose, Massachusetts, at the former estate of Anna Eva ...

In his review of the new book, The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini , author Daniel Stashower (who has penn...

PRESS RELEASE: This Halloween, The James Randi Educational Foundation and WeirdThings.com present a never-before-attempted experiment. I...