The following is an article from history.com “Harry Houdini, the most celebrated magician and escape artist of the 20th century, dies of peritonitis in a Detroit hospital. Twelve days before, Houdini ...

Even the greatest escape artists find there is one thing from which they cannot escape: death. Harry Houdini was no different. But what started as a seemingly clear-cut case of appendicitis evolved ...

Illusionist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926. Multiple theories about what actually happened persist a century later.

DETROIT, Mich. (WILX) - On Halloween in 1926, Harry Houdini took his final bow in Detroit. Days after being punched in the abdomen, the famous illusionist ignored the severe pain and performed at ...

This Halloween marks 99 years since the death of legendary magician Harry Houdini. Preparations are underway for a yearlong ...

This piece is excerpted from National Geographic's Book of Magic and the Occult: A Visual History. He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life ...

Alas, Ricca also recycles speculation — including, for example, claims that Harry and Bess Houdini were childless because she was “intersex.” Alarmingly, in notes at the end of his book, Ricca makes ...

In the aftermath of the "final" seance, a cottage industry in contacting Houdini sprung up. On the 10th anniversary of the 1936 seance, Detroit magician Karrell Fox made a new — and once again ...