The Great Houdinis turns 50
It was 50 years ago that The Great Houdinis aired as the ABC Friday Night Movie on October 8, 1976. Aside from seeing the Tony Curtis movie the year before, this is one of the shar...
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It was 50 years ago that The Great Houdinis aired as the ABC Friday Night Movie on October 8, 1976. Aside from seeing the Tony Curtis movie the year before, this is one of the shar...
A new exhibition, Abracadabra: Mysteries from Houdini to Hans Klok, has opened at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. Houdini is well represented in the exhibit that focuses on Jewish...
I predicted that Dr. Larrian Gillespie's Houdini: The Man Who Died Twice would be "the spiciest Houdini book of the year," and that has certainly proven to be th...
Houdini banners are going up at the University of Texas at Austin. What's this all about? If you know, you know. If you don't, check out my blog tomorrow for details."The publ...
On October 14, FOX Nation will debut Houdini: Back from the Dead, from Red Rock Films. I have been quietly working as a consultant on this project for the past year. This...
In a 1919 letter to librarian Alfred Becks, the magician and escape artist Harry Houdini (1874–1926) described a nerve-racking flight aboard a hydroplane. Houdini was on his way to...
The original Houdini window card that hangs in my office turns 100 today. As you can see on the card header, it was on October 4, 1926, that Houdini opened at the Providence Opera...
Our friend Dean Carnegie has reviewed all three episodes of the new AI-generated docudrama, Houdini: Back from the Dead, produced by Red Rock Films for FOX Nation. I consulted on i...
It was 100 years ago today, on September 2, 1926, that Houdini began his 1926-27 "Coast to Coast" tour of 3 Shows in One at the Lyceum Theater in Paterson, New Jersey. Th...
To mark 100 years since Harry Houdini’s death, magician Paul Zenon escape-tested a replica of the famous 1904 Daily Mirror handcuffs... but could the modern magic man free himself?
Harry Houdini liked to tell people that he was the son of a rabbi, and although he was known for the tricks he played on audiences, that story was true. The world-famous escape art...
Okay, this is a big one. Dr. Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theatre and Performing Arts at the Harry Ransom Center, has been working tirelessly on an exhibit and book devoted to H...
There is no shortage of ways to mark the 100th anniversary of Houdini's death this Halloween, but this is the one that I think surprises me the most. The Mission Inn in Riverside,...
The centenary books keep coming! Here are two new independently published works for fans of Houdini fiction. First up is Hunting Houdini's Ghost by Janson Davies, about a...
In 1937, a mystery guest at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles claimed she had a coded message from Houdini, and even caught the attention of Bess Houdini. I've shared the details...
It was 100 years ago that Houdini had his accident while performing The Water Torture Cell at the Capitol Theater in Albany, New York. Below are links to past posts that tell the s...
The great Harry Houdini once said, “What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.” A beautifully executed and spectacular illusion does more than fool the eye. It creates...
This month has an overwhelming number of Houdini events, but this one deserves a special shout-out. On October 30, Beni Coffee and Weehawken Gazette in Union City...
A new exhibit, "Harry Houdini in Salem," will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) from September 3 through November 2. Located in the Main Atrium, the installati...
Here's another 2026 non-fiction release that took me by surprise: Houdini and the Promise of Youth: Monkey Glands, an Aging Body, and an Unanswered Question by Jef Stevens...
You can now listen to Inescapable, Cora Parago's extremely well-done profile of Houdini through the lens of loss and grief, on CBC Listen. I’m proud to have been...
Nice article at Inside Croydon about Houdini's appearances in Croydon in 1909 and 1910. The central mystery is where exactly Houdini appeared, but I can tell you it was at the Empi...
Here's the kind of news we love to see. Over the weekend, our friend Eric Colleary's new book, Houdini's Library, ranked as Amazon's #1 new release in Performing...
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