WILD ABOUT HARRY

While working on my New Houdini Chronology , I discovered a remarkable clipping in The St. Joseph Herald dated Jan. 16, 1897. While we knew...

Joe Posnanski's upcoming Houdini book is now available for pre-order on Amazon . The book will be released by Simon & Schuster on Oc...

Here's a page from Adventure Comics featuring Superboy performing Houdini's Walking Through A Brick Wall . What interesting is that...

Where exactly was Houdini's delightfully cluttered office inside 278, as seen in the famous photo above? Unfortunately, my visit the ...

Magician Steve Charette is offering new castings of the 1930s Houdini bust produced by Bess Houdini and Edward Saint around the time of th...

One of the things I love about working on my New Houdini Chronology is the discovery of cool bits of untold Houdini history tucked away in ...

The identity of the actor playing Houdini in tonight's episode of Another Period has been revealed: Gil Ozeri . I play Harry Houdin...

Today sees the release of The Secret Life of Mrs. London by Rebecca Rosenberg. This debut novel mixes fact and fiction to tell the story of...

A new exhibition devoted to Vaudeville! opens today at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Of course, the Ransom ...

Houdini showed up on Jeopardy! last Monday (Jan. 22) as a $1,500 Daily Double under the category Myopic Biopics. An easy one, I think, and ...

Later this year a new book by noted sportswriter Joe Posnanski will be released that promises to be a Houdini book like no other. Now you ca...

Yesterday I had the extreme pleasure of talking to David Copperfield on the phone. David was excited to confirm that he now has Houdini...

Here's a terrific image I've never seen before posted by Ken Trombly on his magic_posters  Instagram. Quite the gathering! ...

Houdini will appear on the Comedy Central series Another Period in the second episode of season 3, "Séance." I don't yet know...