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 ...

STEVE EMBER: Harry Houdini had a long career as a magician and an escape artist. He became the most famous magician in the world. He wrote books and acted in movies. He made a lot of money and lived ...

Harry Houdini's 'trick' steel crate is selling in New York City, New York; Bonhams New York is selling the crate between $50,000 to $70,000; ...

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.

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 ...

Almost two years ago now, my wife and I visited a museum in San Francisco to an exhibit called “Art of Magic,” honoring Harry Houdini. In one episode, a customer came in with original ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.