WILD ABOUT HARRY

On Halloween The Hidden Room  performed Houdini Speaks to the Living at The Players in New York City. Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz of t...

This Halloween saw many Houdini tribute tweets, including this one from The British Newspaper Archive ( @BNArchive ) with an image of Houdin...

After years of silence (91 to be precise), Houdini's spirit was pretty chatty on Tuesday night, with mediums at the Official Houdini Sea...

Today marks the anniversary of Houdini's death on Halloween 1926. But instead of my usual post about his death, this year I thought I...

The excellent documentary Houdini: People Came to See Him Die will finally be released on DVD tomorrow, Halloween, at 1:26 PM. The document...

George Hardeen, grandson of Theo Hardeen and great-nephew of Houdini, has traveled to his ancestral home of Budapest, Hungary, where he will...

Here's a terrific unpublished photo of Houdini doing a suspended straitjacket escape. This comes from the collection of our great friend...

Heads up for one more Halloween event. Temple University in Philadelphia will host a lecture by author Laurence Roy Stains on "A Death ...

Houdini will be featured among more than 200 collection items on display at The Library of Congress' pop-up exhibition, "LOC Hallow...

There will an Open House at Houdini's former home at 278 West 113th Street in Harlem tomorrow, October 29, from 1:00-2:30 PM. This w...

Potter & Potter 's latest auction may have been devoted to Harry Blackstone, but just as in life, his chief rival Harry Houdini wa...

So many people have alerted me to this (and I see it's now been picked up by Genii Online ) that I feel compelled to comment on this s...

The documentary series Through The Decades will look at "the magical life of Harry Houdini" as part of a Halloween episode airing...

Magician Ron Carnell will once again host a special Houdini Séance and Magic Show at the River Lake Inn in Colon, Michigan, this Saturd...