Houdini Speaks Out [Paperback]

Arthur Moses (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 30, 2007

Revealing new insights, this ground-breaking book vividly recreates Houdini's solitarian lectures which he presented from 1922 until his untimely death in 1926. The reader becomes involved in understanding his struggles to reach into the afterlife to contact his deceased mother during an era filled with deceptive spirit mediums. Each of the fifty glass lantern slides that Houdini used to highlight his lectures are painstakingly recreated and matched to his original lecture text.

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"HOUDINI SPEAKS OUT reveals that Houdini was more than magic and escapes. Houdini´s passion to fight fraudulent spiritualists consumed his final years" David Copperfield

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (August 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1425767400
• ISBN-13: 978-1425767402
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,554,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Should be considered mandatory reading, November 4, 2007

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

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Harry Houdini is a legendary stage magician whose legacy and influence have served to inspire practitioners of legerdemain down to the present day. Although very well known as a magician and as an escape artist, over time people have largely forgotten that he was also a believer in an after life and an exposure of fraudulent mediums who tended to prey on a gullible public. "Houdini Speaks Out: "I am Houdini! And you are a fraud!" by Arthur Moses recreates Houdini's 'solitarian' lectures which he gave from 1922 to his unexpected and early death in 1926. Each of the fifty glass lantern slides he used to highlight his lectures are recreated and carefully matched to his original lecture text. Also available in a hardcover edition (9781425767433, $79.99) "Houdini Speaks Out" is a very strongly recommended addition to personal, professional, academic, and community library collections -- and should be considered mandatory reading by anyone with an interest in spiritualism, magic, and the occult.

4.0 out of 5 stars For Houdini scholars especially, February 8, 2011

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This review is from: Houdini Speaks Out (Paperback)

I am a magician myself and have read much about Houdini in my life. This book is not a biography but instead a recreation of a lecture HH gave in the last few years of his life - debunking spiritualists. For those of us familiar with this part of his life, the book is very interesting as it shows us slides we had not seen before and parts of the actual lecture. It also provides a good overview of HH's work in this area by giving other background of his work against fakers. Remarkably, in spite of the clear showings in the 1920s by HH that nobody receives messages from the dead, today in the USA a very large percentage of adults think it is possible to receive messages from the beyond. If HH were here today, he would be on tv debunking the ghost hunters on the sci fi channel and John Edwards among others with vigor. Too bad we don't have someone with his level of passion and effort to carry on.

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect book for Houdini fans, May 4, 2008

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Kivilahti Hannele (Tampere, Finland) - See all my reviews
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I have read few bíographies about Houdini. This one I bought because of lantern slide photos it represent, Houdini used these lantern slides in his lectures about spiritualism. All the pictures in this book are perfect, interesting and beautiful (if I may use word beautiful when talking about Houdini...). Addition to lantern slides there are more photos, copies of handbills etc. Nice work.