Thus went the famous boast of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874 and brought to this country by his impoverished parents as Ehrich Weiss two years later.

NEW YORK — Eighty years after his death, the name Harry Houdini remains synonymous with escape under the most dire circumstances. But Houdini, the immigrants’ son whose death-defying career made him ...

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

The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini's sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he often performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumors that the escape artist was ...

When journalist Joe Posnanski decided to write a book about the great magician and escape artist Harry Houdini he created a Google Alert to ping him when Houdini was mentioned somewhere. That was ...

NEW YORK — For all of his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini could not escape the Grim Reaper: the unparalleled performer, age 52, died on Halloween 1926, taking with him many of his trade secrets.

Jeff Nathanson has signed to write and direct the adaptation of William Kalush and Larry Sloman's Harry Houdini biography "The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero" for ...

What a bore Harry Houdini must have been. And what a narcissist. Ninety-three years on from his death in 1926, Houdini reads like a thoroughly modern celebrity. Shameless in his desire for fame and ...

New York - The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini's sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumours that the escape artist ...

NEW YORK – The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini's sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he often performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumors that the escape ...

FARGO - Thad Ellsworth caught the magic "bug" in 1983, when his third-grade teacher gave the class a reading assignment on Harry Houdini. The Bismarck native asked his mom for a magic set that ...