WILD ABOUT HARRY

On Thursday, May 26, I had the pleasure of attending the debut of Jim Steinmeyer's one act play, The Card Trick , at The Magic Castle. T...

I spotted Houdini Heart by Ki Longfellow back when it was released on April 25, but it appeared from the description on Amazon that it on...

Los Angeles Relics has posted this vintage postcard to their Facebook page. The card shows "A Shady Nook in Laurel Canyon. Hollywoo...

Cover art has been revealed for the Tharg's Terror Tales collection. The superb but hard to find Houdini mash-up graphic novel, Necro...

Looks like one of the five competing Houdini projects in Hollywood is getting a writer. The Hollywood Reporter reports that screenwriter ...

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with the nephew of Douglas Geoffrey aka "Hardeen Jr." Despite the fact that Geoffrey wa...

The Magic Castle has added a second performance of The Card Trick , a one act play written by Jim Steinmeyer and featuring Jim Bentley as H...

A letter that Houdini wrote to the New York Public Library in 1911 is on display as part of a special exhibition of 250 unique items that ce...

Here's other discovery I made while browsing The Conjuring Arts Research Center 's Ask Alexander search engine, but this one is a li...

An article in The Guardian reports that at least 20 unpublished stories by Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange , have been ...

Kevin Connolly has posted on his excellent blog, Houdini Himself , an intriguing tease for a new Houdini book in 2012. Says Kevin: "...

According to new listings on Amazon.com, publisher Titan Books will reprint Daniel Stashower's first two Harry Houdini Mysteries, The ...

Recently I was browsing Ask Alexander --  The Conjuring Arts Research Center 's amazing search engine, which just passed the two million...

While it had been announced for June, Escape Artist: An Edna Ferber Mystery by Ed Ifkovic is shipping early from Amazon.com . The book fin...