Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New York ...

Harry Houdini, the remarkable illusionist who stunned international audiences with his death-defying escape act, was shackled eternally by the Grim Reaper on this Halloween in history, Oct. 31, 1926. ...

Shortly before his death at 95 last year, Larry Weeks, a retired Brooklyn juggler, agreed to part with an extraordinary secret legacy — the only known copy of a 1919 film starring legendary magician ...

Pick a card ... any card! One of the first decks of cards ever used by Harry Houdini sold for $43,410 Sunday night at Goldin Auctions. The cards were passed to Houdini's wife, Bess, after his death in ...

In the world of magic, it isn’t enough to simply come up with an innovative trick — you also need to be capable of pulling off the definitive version of it. The history of magic abounds with instances ...

The photo postcard, showing Harry Houdini and his wife, Bess, didn’t have the heft of some of the other items in Saturday’s Houdini auction in Chicago. There were one-of-a-kind stage props, scrapbooks ...

Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. By David Segal In the novel, ...

Like many performers of his day, Houdini would regular perform in public as a way to promote his big shows. So, ahead of his ...

Harry Houdini made a career out of defying death — and yet it wasn't his thrilling escapes from water-filled vessels or skyscraper ledges that caused his untimely demise. According to the Yale ...

It was during his dime-museum days that Houdini first began to seek professional mediums. In séances attended with his grieving mother, he attempted to contact the spirit of Mayer Samuel, who had once ...