A Harry Houdini poster from Dr. Timothy Moore's collection. Dr. Timothy Moore, a Columbus dentist, may have one of the largest magic collections in the country. It includes posters and props that ...

How to explain the durability of Harry Houdini — subject of a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York? He died more than 80 years ago in Detroit, yet his fame remains undimmed and unabated.

He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life as Ehrich Weiss, a ...

APPLETON, Wis. — How did Harry Houdini do his signature “Metamorphosis” escape, in which he was handcuffed inside a sack and locked in a trunk and yet somehow managed to switch places with an ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WLUK) -- Thursday marked 98 years since the death of local legend Harry Houdini, and ever since then, there's been attempts to contact the illusionist from beyond the grave. The famous ...

Even at age 4, the boy who would become Harry Houdini had the mesmerizing gaze that would enthrall audiences when he was a grown man. The lad peering out at viewers from the old family photograph at ...