Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Famed magician Harry Houdini was one of the 20th century’s biggest celebrities, and remains a global household name to this day. His impossible feats of death-defying escape, otherworldly mystique and ...

The legendary illusionist spent his final years pulling back the curtain on people who claimed to speak with spirits. It ended with one last death-defying act. Illusionist Harry Houdini believed every ...

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 ...

“There’s two ‘Houdini’s on the radio right now, one from Eminem, one from Dua Lipa,” frontman Mark Foster says in the video. “Thought it’d be fun to bring in our OG ‘Houdini’ from our first record and ...