WILD ABOUT HARRY

The 2006 biography The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman has been rele...

Here's a rundown of posts that appeared on WILD ABOUT HARRY last month. Most Viewed Post Houdini's secret mind reading system...

Continuing my issue by issue look back at the Mystifier , the newsletter of the Houdini Historical Center that ran from 1991-2003. Th...

The historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville has posted to their official website a list of 5 Surprising Events That Have Happened at Ryman Au...

Today I wanted to give a shout-out to a relatively new blog,  HoudiniFan , launched in April by webmiss Lisa. It has a lot of energy and cre...

Our friend Tom Interval has an epic takedown today of Larry Lewis (right) who for years claimed to have been Houdini's assistant. When...

Fraudulent spirit mediums tried many ways to derail Houdini's campaign of exposing their tricks, even spreading rumors of his own conver...

How would you like to open your August 5, 1925 issue of Variety and see this? This was when Houdini was preparing the first season of ...

It was 100 years ago today that Harry and Bess Houdini celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary with a gala dinner at the Alexandria...

On July 14th I will be at The Breman Museum in Atlanta giving a talk on "Houdini in Early Cinema". This is part of their  Inesc...

It took Hollywood 30 years to make the first Houdini biopic. But this was not for a lack of effort. The idea for a Houdini movie travelled f...

The Washington Post reports that an Indian magician has drowned while attempting a "Houdini-inspired" escape from locks and chain...

It was 97 years ago today on June 18, 1922, that one of most famous seances of all time took place at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City....

Our friend Narinder Chadda recently visited  Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic at the Wellcome Collection in London. Below are som...