WILD ABOUT HARRY

The CBC News site has a nice article by Michelle Gomez about Houdini's performance in Vancouver 100 years ago this week. The article con...

A few weeks back I did a post about some media pairings of Houdini and Rudolph Valentino. Today I have a sequel! As you may know, the two s...

Just a reminder that our great friend and fellow Houdini Nut Jessica Jane Peterson will hanging above the same stage as Houdini tomorrow, F...

While doing my normal search for Houdini news online, I came upon this French eBook called Houdini: Magic Star written by...me? And here I d...

On April 19, 1916, Houdini did a suspended straitjacket escape in front of the Washington Post 's Munsey building at Pennsylvania & ...

UPDATE : Apparently, this is not the station Houdini escaped from in 1905. While this was Blackpool's first police station, Houdini made...

One of the Houdini highlights in Haversat & Ewing's upcoming Magic Auction #40 (February 24-26) is a "Houdini family scrapbook...

Our good friend Don Creekmore talks about Houdini in Kansas in this 2021 PBS interview. Don is currently working on a book about Houdini in ...

Our great friend and fellow Houdini Nut Jessica Jane Peterson will be appearing in the new Penn & Teller production The Foolers this m...

In the Houdini Collections at the Harry Ransom Center there is a thick file of letters written to Houdini by Montraville M. Wood. Wood was ...

Here's a little something I found in the Fort Worth Star Telegram for Nov. 28, 1976. The pairing of these two documentaries on Channel ...

There's no shortage of ways to experience Houdini's story, even when on vacation.  MSC Cruises is currently featuring a Houdini-the...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Bess Houdini on February 11, 1943, aboard a train outside Needles, California. I thought a...

Here's a photo from the July 27, 1974 Buffalo Evening News showing how the Water Torture Cell was displayed at the Houdini Magical Hall...