Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52. ... Bess, and brother, Theo Houdini, by his side. His final words were whispered to Theo. "I’m tired of fighting, he said.

The photo postcard, showing Harry Houdini and his wife, Bess, didn’t have the heft of some of the other items in Saturday’s Houdini auction in Chicago. There were one-of-a-kind stage props ...

For 10 years after Houdini’s death, his wife, Bess, attempted to channel him during a séance that took place on his day of death, Oct. 31. Despite not being able to reach him, the tradition ...

Yet Harry Houdini did not die from a magical curse. Instead, a burst appendix killed him on October 31, 1926. As Bess grieved, she hoped to witness her husband’s final trick: contact from beyond ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. ... Harry and Bess return to New York to live with his mother.

Houdini died on Oct. 31 that same year, though he famously had a pact with Bess that the first to die would try to contact the other with a coded message.

Houdini’s widow Bess, who died in 1943, had wished to be buried next to her soulmate and business partner, but her Catholic family instead had her interred 35 miles north at the Gate of Heaven ...

In the 10 years after Houdini’s death, Bess held annual séances, but she never heard that phrase. “Before her 1943 death,” Biography notes, “Bess Houdini declared the experiment a failure.” ...

Featuring chicken and paprika, the magician's favorite meal is a Hungarian classic that was first made for him by his mother ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52. ... Bess, and brother, Theo Houdini, by his side. His final words were whispered to Theo. "I’m tired of fighting, he said.