Harry Houdini

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Carl Willmann	Aus und mit dem Leserkreise	on Harry Houdini		June 1901	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 6)	96	Articles / Columns
Carl Willmann	Harry Houdini			July 1901	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 7)	97	Articles / Biographical
Carl Willmann	Zum Kapitel des Erklärens	on exposure, Harry Houdini		Aug. 1901	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 8)	127	Articles / Articles
S. W. Erdnase	First Method	"Transformations. Two Hands" Houdini/Erdnase Change	Related to Bluff Erdnase Change (Justin Higham, 1992) Variations Draun's Erdnase Change (Steve Draun, 1999) Expertalk: Jay Sankey on the Erdnase Transformation (Jay Sankey, 2002) Triple Erdnase (Nathan Kranzo, 2002) Erdnase Sideways (Guy Hollingworth, 2005) NoseJob (Tomas Blomberg, Tom Stone, 2007) Also published here Método 3 (S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini, 1993)	1902	The Expert at the Card Table	151	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Carl Willmann	Verschiedenes	Alex Weyer, Dr. Saram R. Ellison, German imposter in Russia, Harry Houdini, Fr. Mulack, Ben-Ali-Bey, Mr. Lorenz und Mss. Kennedy, Clement Lion		June 1902	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 6)	94	Articles / Columns
Carl Willmann	Verschiedenes	Arthur Toskana, Harry Houdini, Fall Rothe, Hofkünstler Bellachini, Imro Fox, François Röthig		July 1902	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 7)	111	Articles / Columns
Carl Willmann	Verschiedenes	Sprechmaschinen, Harry Houdini als Sieger, von Berghoff, Imro Fox		Sep. 1902	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 9)	143	Articles / Columns
Carl Willmann, Christian Seitz	Verschiedenes	Hofzauberkünstler Bellachini, Georg Hartmann, Harry Houdini, T. Nelson Downs		Dec. 1902	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 8 No. 12)	190	Articles / Columns
Carl Willmann	Verschiedenes	Alfredo Uferini, Bellachini, Chung Ling Soo, Harry Houdini, Anna Rothe, Horace Goldin		Feb. 1903	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 2)	31	Articles / Columns
Carl Willmann	Verschiedenes	Bartolomeo Bosco, Harry Houdini		Feb. 1904	Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 10 No. 2)	32	Articles / Columns
Harry Houdini	Houdini's Torn Card Trick	card with torn-off corner changes into other card		1909	The Art of Magic	94	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
Harry Houdini	The Vanishing Knot			1909	The Art of Magic	336	Silk & Handkerchief / Knot Effects / Vanish
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini	The Slip-Slide Change	Houdini / Erdnase Color Change		1927/28	Merlin's Master Manipulations	15	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Harry Houdini	The Houdini "Bluff" Change	apparently top change is done		1933	Farelli's Card Magic — Part Two	71	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Magicians Only Gags Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
L. Vosburgh Lyons	Last Chance		Related to A Thought Ahead (Herb Runge, 1940) The Tantalizer (1948) The Reluctant Card (1949) The Last Two Cards (Harry Houdini, Stewart Judah, 1950) Riffle Shuffle Control (Karl Fulves, 1978) Also published here Last Chance (L. Vosburgh Lyons, 1972)	Mar. 1939	The Jinx (Issue 54)	387	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Tantalizer Deal
Harry Houdini	Malay Escape	rope tie		1940	The Jinx (Issue 87)	551	Rope / Knots for Escapes
Harry Houdini	Houdini's Book Identification System	for personal library, mentioned by Ralph W. Read		1940	The Jinx (Issue 119)	702	Articles / Theory & Essays
Paul Fleming (reviewer)	Houdini's Paper Magic	by Harry Houdini		1944	The Paul Fleming Book Reviews — Volume I	121	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Harry Houdini	The Needle Mystery	needle swallowing routine		1945	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	103	Needle / Swallowing
Harry Houdini, Alexander Herrmann, Dr. Jacob Daley, Sam Leo Horowitz	Houdini's Double-Talk Card Trick	No. 57, Weird divination routine for up to ten people, each selecting two cards		1950	Scarne on Card Tricks	101	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous
Harry Houdini, Nate Leipzig, Harry Levine	Affinity in Numbers	No. 110, after some mental calculation, the two digits of the total match the values of two selected cards	Variations Scorecard (Steve Beam, 2010)	1950	Scarne on Card Tricks	212	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Numbers / Number Forces / Only Calculation
Harry Houdini, Stewart Judah	The Last Two Cards	No. 112, two-card version of the Tantalizer	Related to Last Chance (L. Vosburgh Lyons, 1939)	1950	Scarne on Card Tricks	216	Cards / Principles / Equivoque Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Tantalizer Deal
Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Harry Blackstone, Max Malini, Louis Nikola, Carl Rosini	Card on Ceiling	No. 119		1950	Scarne on Card Tricks	231	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card on Ceiling or Wall
Harry Houdini	Magic Made Easy / Houdini's Magic Book	catalog reprint		Feb. 1956	The New Phoenix (Issue 341-2)	179	Articles / Articles Articles / Magic History
P. Howard Lyons (reviewer)	Houdini	by Harry Houdini (written by William Lindsay Gresham)		July 1959	Ibidem (Issue 17)	22	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Paul Curry	Chapter Four: Houdini and After	on Harry Houdini, T. Nelson Downs, Nate Leipzig, Fred Keating, Joseph Dunninger, Emil Jarrow, Ade Duval, Cardini, Jack Gwynne		1965	Magician's Magic	47	Articles / Biographical Articles / Magic History
S. E. Josolyne, Harry Houdini	Walking Through a Wall			1965	Magician's Magic	155	Illusions / Penetration
Harry Houdini	The Romance of Magical Collecting	on his collection	Also published here in "Magic" Vol. 2n No. 9. December, 1910	1970	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70)	12	Articles / Magic History
Amedeo Vacca	Photo Album	various photographs of Vacca and Harry Houdini		1974	Amedeo's Continental Magic	66	Articles / Articles
	Vaudeville Letter	a letter introducing Vacca as Harry Houdini's advance man		1974	Amedeo's Continental Magic	69	Articles / Letters
Harry Houdini	Note from Houdini	note from Houdini to Amedeo Vacca		1974	Amedeo's Continental Magic	70	Articles / Letters
Harry Houdini	ESP	card in spectator's pocket changes, only speculation		Mar. 1975	Epilogue (Issue 23)	220	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
Karl Fulves	Harry Houdini			1977	The Magic Book	190	Articles / Biographical Articles / Magic History
Leslie Anderson, Harry Anderson	Time Warp	divination of set time of a pocket watch	Related to The "Thumbhole Window" Glimpse (Harry Houdini, Jas Jakutsch, 1999)	1978	Magick (Issue 202)	1007	Watch / Set Time is Predicted or Changed Mental Magic / Effects / Divination
Karl Fulves (reviewer)	Paper Magic	by Harry Houdini		1981	Interlocutor (Issue 45)	180	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Harry Houdini	Houdini's Secret	No. 64, from Houdini's notebooks, two cards selected by counting to numbers, both predicted, one-ahead		1984	More Self-Working Card Tricks	94	Cards / Principles / One Ahead Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Pencil Dot or similar Marks
Harry Houdini, S. W. Erdnase	Houdini / Erdnase Transformation			1985	Lake Tahoe Card Magic	23	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Dexter Cleveland	Historical Note	fake article on Harry Houdini		1987	The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 20)	339	Articles / Joke
Harry Houdini, John Carney, S. W. Erdnase, Dai Vernon	Houdini/Erdnase Transformation			1991	Carneycopia	67	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Harry Houdini, S. W. Erdnase	Houdini/Erdnase Transformation as Vanish			1992	The Collected Almanac (Issue )	xl	Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini	Método 3	Houdini/Erdnase Change, out-jogged	Also published here First Method (S. W. Erdnase, 1902)	1993	Cartomagia Fundamental	316	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
David Britland	The Life and Many Books About Harry Houdini			Sep. 1994	Opus (Vol. 5 No. 2)	9	Articles / Biographical Articles / Articles
Ian Keable-Elliott	A Missed Opportunity: Omnibus' Television Documentary on Harry Houdini			Sep. 1994	Opus (Vol. 5 No. 2)	14	Articles / Magic on TV
Chuck Fayne (reviewer)	Harry Houdini - Legend and Legacy	by Harry Houdini (written by Brian Lead, Roger Woods)		July 1994	Magic (Vol. 3 No. 11)	68	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
David Charvet (reviewer)	The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini	by Harry Houdini (written by Ruth Brandon)		Jan. 1995	Magic (Vol. 4 No. 5)	72	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
David Charvet (reviewer)	Houdini!!! The Career of Erich Weiss	by Harry Houdini (written by Kenneth Silverman)	Related to Laughing (Maurine Christopher, 1997)	Nov. 1996	Magic (Vol. 6 No. 3)	83	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Doug Edwards	Houdini Casts A Spell	Spell "Harry Houdini" a few times to divine selected card placed in pocket (suit then number)		1997	Doug Edwards Packs a Wallop!	25	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Cyclical & Tetradistic Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Set-up
Maurine Christopher	Laughing	Letters	Related to Houdini!!! The Career of Erich Weiss (David Charvet, Harry Houdini, Kenneth Silverman, 1996)	Jan. 1997	Magic (Vol. 6 No. 5)	15	Articles / Letters
Michael Close (reviewer)	A Magician Among the Spirits	by Harry Houdini		Feb. 1997	Magic (Vol. 6 No. 6)	79	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Harry Houdini, Roberto Giobbi, Howard Schwarzman	The Houdini Color Change			1998	Card College — Volume 3	744	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Harry Houdini, Jas Jakutsch	The "Thumbhole Window" Glimpse		Related to Time Warp (Leslie Anderson, Harry Anderson, 1978)	1999	Completely Mental — Vol. 2	18	Billet / Secret Reading Methods & Peeks
Daniel Stashower	The Dime Museum Murders - A Harry Houdini Mystery	An Excerpt: Chapter Two, The Human Pin-Cushion		Dec. 1999	Genii (Vol. 62 No. 12)	16	Articles / Articles
	Magic: The Century - Those Who Impacted The Art In America	Professor Hoffmann (1839-1919) Siegfried & Roy Jay Marshall A.C. Gilbert (1884-1961) Slydini (1901-1991) Harry Houdini (1874-1926) Mark Wilson Erdnase P. T. Selbit (1879-1938)	Related to Next Time (David Avadon, 1999)	Jan. 1999	Magic (Vol. 8 No. 5)	58	Articles / Magic History
John Moehring	The Century - Those Who Most Affected the Art in America	balloting results: 10 - Howard Thurston 9 - Siegfried & Roy 8 - Mark Wilson 7 - Cardini 6 - Harlan Tarbell 5 - Doug Henning 4 - Harry Blackstone, Sr. 3 - David Copperfield 2 - Dai Vernon 1 - Harry Houdini	Related to Top Ten Feedback (Peter Lipp, 2000)	Dec. 1999	Magic (Vol. 9 No. 4)	52	Articles / Articles
	Finally	Harry Houdini photograph		Apr. 2001	Magic (Vol. 10 No. 8)	106	Articles / Columns
	Finally	Harry Houdini letter		Sep. 2001	Magic (Vol. 11 No. 1)	158	Articles / Columns Articles / Letters
John Moehring	The Houdini Issue	Harry Houdini stamp Pushing the Envelope		Dec. 2001	Magic (Vol. 11 No. 4)	62	Articles / Articles
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer)	Houdini	by Harry Houdini (written by Clinton Cox)		May 2002	Genii (Vol. 65 No. 5)	75	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Harry Houdini	Cone and Egg	hat with plate on table, egg on hat, covered with paper cone, a wooden cone vanishes under handkerchief, under paper cone is now wooden cone, egg produced from elbow, egg-cone sequence, wooden cone reappears in hat	Also published here Harry Houdini, Houdini on Magic, ed. Walter B. Gibson and Morris N. Young, 1953, p. 188	2002	The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic	177	Cup / Cups & Balls / One Cup & Chop Cup Routines Egg / Traveling Wood
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini	Erdnase Color Change			2003	Twenty Years Of Magic (Issue Amazing Tricks)	28	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Thomas Solomon	Escape Artists We Have Known	Harry Houdini Theo Hardeen James Randi James Steranko		Sep. 2003	Genii (Vol. 66 No. 9)	40	Articles / Magic History
Rogan Taylor	Magical Mysteries and Harry Houdini	Introduction (2003) Eastern Magic Tricks The Great Bosco Robert-Houdin Harry Houdini		2003	Mystery School	413	Articles / Articles Articles / Magic History
	Finally	Harry Houdini photograph		Mar. 2003	Magic (Vol. 12 No. 7)	98	Articles / Columns
Eugene Burger (reviewer)	Death & Harry Houdini			Oct. 2003	Magic (Vol. 13 No. 2)	70	Reviews / Shows
Harry Houdini, William Goodwin, Larry Jennings	Houdini Color Change as Vanish			July 2004	The Penumbra (Issue 8)	15	Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Eric Mead (reviewer)	The Secret Life of Houdini	by Harry Houdini (written by Bill Kalush, Larry Sloman)		Apr. 2007	Genii (Vol. 70 No. 4)	91	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Steve Beam	Scorecard	two selections correspond with number after some calculations, with history	Inspired by Affinity in Numbers (Harry Houdini, Nate Leipzig, Harry Levine, 1950) Related to Scorecard V (Steve Beam, 2015) Variations Scorecard VI (Steve Beam, 2016) Numerology & You (David Solomon, 2018) Final Score (Steve Beam, 2018)	2010	Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8	203	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini	Erdnase/Houdini Change			Aug. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 8)	19	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Richard Kaufman	Genii Speaks	Earl "Presto" Johnson, Harry Houdini		Dec. 2010	Genii (Vol. 73 No. 12)	10	Articles / Columns
Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Kenneth Silverman	Houdini: Art and Magic	on Harry Houdini and exhibition pieces		Jan. 2011	Genii (Vol. 74 No. 1)	54	Articles / Articles Articles / Magic History
Jon Racherbaumer	On the Slant	Tell to Win (Peter Gruber) The Believing Brain (Michael Shermer, 2011) How To Disappear (2010) Disappearing Tricks (Matthew Solomon, 2010) Harry Houdini		Aug. 2011	Genii (Vol. 74 No. 8)	13	Articles / Columns
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini	Erdnase Color Change			2013	Confident Deceptions	21	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini	The Houdini Color Change			2014	Classic Fantastic	52	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Harry Houdini, S. W. Erdnase	Erdnase Color Change			2014	Art Decko	121	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Jamy Ian Swiss (reviewer)	Houdini!!!	by Harry Houdini (written by Kenneth Silverman)	Also published here Genii, Dec. 1996	2017	Light and Heat	38	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Johnny Thompson	The JT Asrah	performed on large glass sheet	Inspired by "The Flight of Venus" (Harry Houdini, Houdini's Escapes and Magic, Walter Gibson)	2018	The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 2)	189	Illusions / Animation / Levitation Illusions / Vanish / Person
Mike Caveney	Harry Houdini to Ellis Stanyon	Classic Correspondence		Jan. 2018	Genii (Vol. 81 No. 1)	24	Articles / Columns Articles / Letters
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini, Dai Vernon	Erdnase / Houdini Color Change	as a vanish		2018	Veinticinco	251	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
S. W. Erdnase, Harry Houdini, Juan Tamariz	Houdini/Erdnase Transformation			2019	¿Quién es Iñaki Zabaletta?	21	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
David Britland (reviewer)	The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini	by Joe Posnanski		Feb. 2020	Genii (Vol. 83 No. 2)	84	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
Nathan Coe Marsh (reviewer)	Harry Houdini & Sherlock Holmes Together Again In 1908	by Arthur Moses		July 2021	Genii (Vol. 84 No. 7)	91	Reviews / Books, Manuscripts, Notes
James C. Hagy	Jim's Whims	on John Mulholland, Harry Houdini, Henry Ridgely Evans, Bob Lund		Apr. 2024	PM² (Issue 31)	1	Articles / Columns

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