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Harry Houdini

September 28, 2016 - Harry Ransom Center

Houdini speaks to the living

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Beth Burns, Harry Houdini, Harry Houdini collection, Houdini Speaks to the Living, Hungarian, Magic, Research, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualism, The Hidden Room, theater, tricks, verbatim theater

The trick is to bring Houdini back. Show him to us. Let us hear him speak, watch him make his magic, feel his presence among us, let Houdini live again!

September 22, 2016 - Eric Colleary

Houdini: Illusionist and collector

Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Budapest, conjuring, digitized collections, Discoverie of Witchcraft, Ehrich Weisz, Harry Houdini, Harry Houdini collection, Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Library, hypnotism, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Magic, magician, McManus-Young collection, Mystery!, playbills, posters, Ransom Edition, Reginald Scot, scrapbooks, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sleight of hand and stage magic, Spiritualism, witchcraft

This Halloween marks the ninetieth anniversary of the death of the great illusionist Harry Houdini. Born Ehrich Weisz in Budapest in 1874, he got his start as a trapeze artist before turning his attention to magic. He took the name Houdini after the popular French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. When Houdini… read more

January 27, 2015 - James Machin

Fellows Find: H. P. Lovecraft letter sheds light on pivotal moment in his career

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Albert Davis collection, Arthur Machen, Azathoth, Clark Ashton Smith, Edwin Baird, Fellows Find, H. P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Imprisoned With the Pharoahs, J. C. Henneberger, James Machin, John Buchan, M. P. Shiel, Manuscripts, Messmore Kendall collection, Research, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, S. T. Joshi, Sonia Haft Greene, The House of the Worm, The University of Texas at Austin Office of Graduate Studies, weird fiction, Weird Tales

James Machin is a PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, working on a thesis on early weird fiction, circa 1880 to 1914. He is also the editor of Faunus, the journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen. His research at the Ransom Center was funded by a dissertation fellowship… read more

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