A Magician Among the Spirits.

The world’s greatest escape artist reveals that “it is this question as to the truth or falsity of inter-communication between the dead and the living, more than anything else, that has claimed my attention and to which I have devoted years of research and conscientious study… I too would have parted gladly with a large share of my earthly possessions for the solace of one word from my loved departed.” Edmund Wilson once divulged that Houdini “lives in constant terror of being outwitted by a telepathist or a medium. Where he once challenged the world to tie him up, he now challenges it to convince him of the supernatural.”