WILD ABOUT HARRY

Connolly Collection The mighty Kevin Connolly over at Houdini Himself has posted several very uncommon photos of Houdini in unusual rest...

The catalog for Martinka & Co. 's Milbourne Christopher Collection auction is now online at LIVE Auctioneers . There are over 30 Hou...

Check out this terrific video of Penn & Teller in the Houdini Collection vault at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. I love t...

Check out this "Today in History" video posted to YouTube by the Associated Press , which pegs Houdini's birthday as today, ...

Today is Houdini's other birthday. While we now know the great magician was born on March 24, 1874, Houdini himself always claimed hi...

The Daily Times of Farmington reports that Harry Houdini himself will appear in a magic and escape show for all ages tonight (April 6) at 6...

Martinka & Co. will auction items from the famous Milbourne Christopher Collection at the Hotel Pennsylvania (401 Seventh Ave.) in New ...

Here's an unusual clipping sent in by reader Steven Sobolewski. This is a November 1999 obituary from the Detroit Free Press for John F...

Restoration artist M.A. Ludwig  (aka Mel) has created this time lapse of her work on one of Houdini's most famous publicity shots. Says ...

Here's one I completely missed! In 2009 Sherlock Holmes in America was published by editors Martin H. Greenbeg, Jon L. Lellenberg, an...

The New York Daily News is asking readers to help come up with a name for the Bronx Zoo's escape artist cobra - and the Houdini theme i...

Yet another MUST READ over at Carnegie: Magic Detective . This time Dean is on the case of a long forgotten Houdini protege, William Leonard...

On April 6, 2000, Rhoda Newman of the Monmouth Library interviewed Dorothy Young as part of the library's Remembering the 20th Centu...

Dennis Watkins talks about playing Houdini and escaping the Water Torture Cell in the 2003 stageplay, Death & Harry Houdini at The Hous...