WILD ABOUT HARRY

Here's a curiosity I came across in The Times from April 2, 1975. According to this column, The Amazing Kreskin was writing a Houdini b...

The Houdini grave restoration project is moving forward. Our friends Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz of the Houdini Museum in Scranton ...

The latest issue of Literary Orphans online literary journal is titled "Houdini" and celebrates the great escapist on the cover. E...

It's amazing how many modern musicians and pop stars find inspiration in the decidedly non-musical Houdini, whose favorite song was Auld...

A magnificent Christmas postcard sent out by Harry and Bess Houdini sold on eBay over the weekend for $355. The card has the original stamp...

This original German movie program for Paramounts 1953 Houdini biopic starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh recently sold at an eMoviePoster...

A Brief History of Houdini's Water Torture Cell is the first publication of what I'm calling the WILD ABOUT HARRY Press. This is ...

Click the headline to read an article by Teresa Leonard at the Past Times Blog about Houdini in North Carolina and the connection the state...

The second book in Marty Chan's The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles, Infinity Coil , is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com . The book is ...

The mighty Arthur Moses has uncovered a Houdini biography from India published in 2013. The book runs 96 pages with over 24 photos and is ...

Bound By Flesh, the 2012 documentary about conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, is now streaming on Netflix . Houdini was friends wit...

An 1856 edition of The Confessions by J.J. Rousseau inscribed by its owner "Ehrich Weiss" magically blew past its estimate of $1,...

This Capital One ad aired during the Houdini miniseries back in September. I never got a chance to report on this at the time, so I'm h...

David Charvet has announced that he will be hosting The Midwest Magic History Weekend   on May 28-30, 2015 in Marshall Michigan. The eve...