WILD ABOUT HARRY

Today sees the release of Audacity Jones Steals the Show, the second Audacity adventure by Kirby Larson. This time the young heroes lend a ...

On newsstands now is this special edition of LIFE magazine devoted to Sherlock Holmes. The magazine includes a couple pages on Houdini in ...

The blog Movies Silently has an amusing "Lobby Card Dissection" of the below from Houdini's Haldane of the Secret Service . I...

Ron Fortier's Airship 27 has released Holmes and Houdini by I.A. Watson. The excellent cover art has a double Houdini connection. Holm...

The photo below sold in Haversat & Ewing Galleries Winter Auction today for $749 (including 17% premium). This is an unpublished shot o...

Garson O’Toole's clever blog  Quote Investigator  today tackles a quote by George Bernard Shaw who identified the three most famous name...

The Hearld Democrat reports that the Denison Development Foundation is hoping to bring new life to the historic Hotel Denison in Denison, T...

Reader Bruce East recently alerted me to a connection between Houdini and Coca-Cola that I've never heard before. The following comes fr...

Here's something fun from Richard Wiseman's  Quirkology  blog. I'm not sure how to describe it, so I'll leave it to them to ...

Before computer generated imagery (CGI), physical "matte paintings" were used in movies to create larger spaces and landscapes whe...

Today is Bess Houdini 's 141st birthday. To celebrate, here's a nice clipping from The Pittsburgh Press dated March 6, 1922. It anno...

Heads up for yet another new Houdini book headed our way in 2017. The Magician and the Spirits by Deborah Noyes is aimed at middle school r...

Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting the workshop of master illusion builder all around good guy John Gaughan. I went with Joe Pos...

Great news. Derek Tait's highly anticipated The Great Houdini: His British Tours is now available for pre-order at Amazon.co.uk . The l...