Author: Harry Houdini

Cited by

• Amy / Axelrod, David Axelrod (1)
  • IN: The Bullet Catch (2014) Mystery, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In this book I have told of the methods of criminals, and held them up to your gaze, not as heroes but as malefactors; not as examples to be emulated, but as corrupted to be shunned, as you would a plague.
    FROM: The Right Way to Do Wrong, (1906), Book, Hungary / US
• Melissa Keil (1)
  • IN: The Secret Science of Magic (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
    FROM: Miracle Mongers and their Methods, (1920), Book, US/Hungary
• Donna Tartt (1)
  • IN: The Little Friend (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Ladies and gentlemen, I am now locked up in a handcuff that has taken a British mechanic five years to make. I do not know whether I am going to get out of it or not, but I can assure you I am going to do my best.
    FROM: London Hippodrome Saint Patrick's Day, 1904, (1904), NULL, US/Hungary
• Greer MacAllister (1)
  • IN: The Magician's Lie (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no trick... you simply lie down in a coffin and breathe quietly.
    FROM: NULL, (1926), NULL, Hungary/US
• Andrew Mayne (2)
  • IN: Angel Killer (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many thing that seem wonderful to most men are the everyday commonplaces of my business.
    FROM: Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, (1920), Book, US/Hungsry
  • IN: The Name of the Devil (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What the eyes see, the ear hears, and the mind believes.
    FROM: quote from film Swordfish, (2001), Film, US/Hungary
• Courtney Collins (1)
  • IN: The Untold (2012) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: How could we ever keep love a-burning day after day if it wasn't that we, and they, surrounded it with magic tricks...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US