Harry and ‘Bessie’ practiced this trick so often they got their switch time down to an astonishing three seconds. The East Indian Needle Trick was done very much tongue-in-cheek 8.

But the master magician Harry Houdini was no stranger to stunts that would make other people sweat. In 1915, he performed a trick in Santa Ana, California, that saw him buried beneath six feet of ...

One of Houdini’s most famous tricks was escaping, handcuffed, from a box that was dumped into New York’s East River in 1912. The first time he performed the illusion, he emerged from the water ...

Champions of Magic re-create one of Harry Houdini’s tricks. Posted: April 3, 2025 | Last updated: April 3, 2025. Liberty Larsen, Richard Young, Sam Strange and Fernando Velasco, known as the ...

Yet Harry Houdini did not die from a magical curse. Instead, a burst appendix killed him on October 31, 1926. As Bess grieved, she hoped to witness her husband’s final trick: contact from beyond ...

Houdini’s trick predates Franz Kafka’s famous 1915 novella The Metamorphosis by more than 20 years, but from a today’s vantage it’s inescapably evocative, and both were responses to modernism.

Houdini died in 1926 at age 52 on Oct. 31. Getty Images. But all is not lost. The Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pa. is holding its annual seance Monday afternoon — Harry died at 1:26 p.m. Eastern ...

Harry Houdini, the world’s most famous magician, died in Room 401 of Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, on October 31, ... Much like trying to figure out a magic trick, ...

Harry Houdini had issued a challenge to every magician, illusionist and escapologist in the world — perform any trick for him three times, he said, and he could tell you how it was done. On what ...

The famed magician and illusionist Harry Houdini will be honored at Jaffrey’s Park Theatre this Friday, August 16. As part of his performance, magician Ben Pratt will feature the famous ...