Pick a card ... any card! One of the first decks of cards ever used by Harry Houdini sold for $43,410 Sunday night at Goldin Auctions. The cards were passed to Houdini's wife, Bess, after his death in ...

Ferraby Lionheart. Today's Top Tune is from the release, The Jack of Hearts, and it is a song about Harry Houdini and his wife Bess, who after an hour of watching her mate struggling at a widely ...

The spookiest time of the year is upon us once more as our attention turns to jack-o’-lanterns, black cats and things that go bump in the night. It was also the time when the widow of one of the most ...

On a Friday evening in July 1925, about 30 people crowded into a basement on West 88th Street in Manhattan for a presentation by Mrs. Cecil Cook, a spirit medium. A pan of water and two silver ...