"What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet." During the seance the "teleplasmic" arm appeared, stretched forth a "cold ...

In the last years of his life, Harry Houdini became, to borrow the title from one of his books, "A Magician among the Spirits." As the most famous illusionist in the world, Houdini was naturally ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.