An extended clip from the History Channel series History’s Greatest Mysteries” on Harry Houdini. October, of course, will always be associated with the world’s most famous magician as he passed away on October 31, 1926 so this will be the first of many Houdini associated clips this month.
If you want to learn more about Harry Houdini, you might try the Timeline documentary on his life which you can stream for free on YouTube here.
Houdini has been seeing a History Channel revival lately. He was the subject of an episode of Man Versus History recently and last night, as introduced here by Lee Terbosic for Pittsburgh’s KDKA, was the focus of History’s Greatest Mysteries.
This video from Fantasma Magic’s Houdini Museum of New York is not exactly solely a performance, but it does included footage of Houdini’s brother Hardeen performing the act.
Silvia Moreno-García teaches about HP Lovecraft in the above video from TED-Ed… why is iTricks on about HP Lovecraft when Halloween is still three months away? Fine Books and Collections recently posted a look at the extremely rare (as in previously rumored to exist without firm proof) manuscript The Cancer of Superstition which was commissioned and, at least in name, co-authored by Harry Houdini. The 31 page type written manuscript was auctioned off at Potter and Potter back in April of 2016 and the Fine Books and Collections piece was originally written in March of that year, but just popped up in a news search over the weekend. Given today’s detour towards magic libraries, it seemed like a fun article to share.
As you may know, Lovecraft wrote Houdini’s article Under The Pyramids which presents a rather sensationalized version of Houdini’s night sleeping in an Egyptian tomb.
The good folks over at Ripley’s After Dark turned their attention to the story of Houdini, his mother’s death and his battle against spiritualism. Obviously, this was their Mother’s Day episode!
The master himself… Harry Houdini from the Huntley Archives.
Fantasma Magic started a very cool series on their YouTube Page Looking at the Roger Dreyer collection of Houdiniana. Worth checking out!