WILD ABOUT HARRY

Last week I did a post about the smashing of Houdini's original grave bust in 1975. The destruction of the bust has long been a mystery...

Continuing a Washington D.C. theme today, reader Eric Fry alerts me to this terrific new Houdini item at The Miracle Factory . This is t...

The Washington Symposium on Magic History is set for the weekend of April 25-27, 2013 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conferen...

Uh-Oh. Deadline Hollywood reports that writer Aaron Sorkin has dropped out of the Houdini Broadway musical slated to star Hugh Jackman for ...

Last week I landed a copy of the awesomely named 1922 book, The Stag Cook Book: A Man's Cook Book for Men by C. Mac Sheridan. Yes, I li...

Magician Nick Lewin has posted on his blog, remarkablemagic.com , his memories of filming an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called,...

Super collector Arthur Moses is expanding his official website houdinispeaks.com with images of items from his own collection, starting w...

WILD ABOUT HARRY meets Google Earth at 10 Lime Street in Boston. 'Nuff said. Click to enlarge.

Today we have a very special encore presentation of "The Margery Files." Once again Anna Thurlow , the great granddaughter of Mina...

In April 1975 the original bust on Houdini's tomb at Machpelah Cemetery in Queens was destroyed. How, why, and who did it has never been...

This little baby just dropped through my mailbox. Mysteries of People and Places by Phyllis Raybin Emert was released by TOR in 1992. It on...

I've launched a new page here at WILD ABOUT HARRY -- a Bibliography . Here I've listed over 200 books by and about Houdini. While ...

This unique Houdini autograph sold last week in an online RR Auction for $1,640. Collectors are aware that Houdini modified the "H...

Beatrice Houdini was born Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner on January 23, 1876, in Brooklyn, New York. Like Houdini, Bess came from a large immigr...