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Meet the Book
This is the book’s own stage: Harry Houdini — from his own photograph — stands on the stage, while the spirit war is read aloud from the record itself, in Ryan’s voice: the pamphlet against the Boston medium “Margery,” Houdini’s sworn testimony before Congress, Doyle’s counter-witness, and the séance epilogue. The bookstore barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- The record, both sides labeled: Houdini Exposes the Tricks Used by the Boston Medium “Margery” (1924), in three parts; Houdini’s testimony before the House subcommittee (1926), in five parts; Doyle, The Riddle of Houdini (1930); Kellock’s final chapter (1928) and the publisher’s closing note on the séance years.
- 4 hours 47 minutes of narration — Ryan reads the book aloud in English, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, while Houdini’s portrait stands on the stage.
- The war in the open — the medium he exposed, the Congress he testified before, and the friend who answered him, all in their own words.
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These are the public-domain records: Houdini’s Margery pamphlet (1924), the official hearing record of his 1926 congressional testimony, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Riddle of Houdini (1930), and the final chapter of Harold Kellock’s Houdini, His Life Story (1928), presented as a talking hologram book. Every copy opens with an honest disclaimer. This volume is a record with two sides, and both are labeled: Doyle’s essay is the other side’s testimony and is marked as such wherever it stands; the epilogue is assembled by the publisher from the published record and says so. The disclaimer also prints the honest margin on the famous Montreal blows: they are in the record — that they caused Houdini’s death has never been proven. The narration is a synthesized English reading (Piper — Ryan) of these texts, made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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