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 ...

NEW YORK — Will wonders never cease? A century after Harry Houdini thrilled audiences with daring escapes from handcuffs, straitjackets and watery tombs, the legendary magician has conjured a major ...

When Houdini got lowered into water, who padlocked his trunks? A British carpenter and locksmith called Jim Collins. Now a magician has written a play about the forgotten hero of escapology ‘There are ...

Through the recently digitized scrapbooks of Harry Houdini, you can be transported to the world of 19th-century magic, an era of deception and curiosity about the unknown. Houdini’s “Magicians ...

In 1917, 80,000 people pressed into the street in Providence, R.I., to watch Harry Houdini dangle upside down from the roof of a newspaper office building and wriggle out of a straitjacket. A master ...

The Halloween magic was pure Harry Houdini, as inspired admirers gathered with state Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright to dedicate the legendary escape artist’s Upper East Side childhood home on the ...

Things were starting to go bump in the night in the Houdini Seance Chamber at the Magic Castle, the private club in Hollywood that is the headquarters of the Academy of Magical Arts. Medium Misty Lee, ...

HOUDINI was the stage name of a magician and escape artist who died on Halloween in 1926. It was the one rendezvous with mortality even he couldn't escape. With Martha Teichner we'll now try to unlock ...

From Wisconsin to New York, RJ the Magician has followed the showman’s path. He now directs the Houdini Museum of New York. By Corey Kilgannon Two months ago, Rajon Lynch, 23, was teaching magic in ...

Oscar winner Adrien Brody is the big get for History’s biopic “Houdini,” an attempt to reveal the man behind the great-escape legend. It is also, one assumes, a bid to re-ignite the network’s original ...