[HN Gopher] Houdini and the Art of Escape (2020)
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       Houdini and the Art of Escape (2020)
        
       Author : chapulin
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2024-03-25 16:22 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | fenomas wrote:
       | Not mentioned in TFA, but here's a fun Houdini fact I learned
       | recently: shortly before he died, he commissioned H.P. Lovecraft
       | and another writer to collaborate on a book debunking religious
       | miracles. It was to be called _The Cancer of Superstition_ , and
       | apparently an outline and a few chapters did get written, but
       | after his death Houdini's widow didn't want to pursue the
       | project.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cancer_of_Superstition
        
         | nineplay wrote:
         | Interesting from the wikipedia entry
         | 
         | > Houdini's widow cancelled the project - perhaps because she
         | was herself more inclined to believe in the reality of
         | spiritualists phenomena than her skeptical late husband.
         | 
         | This is a quote from author Donald Tyson but it seems
         | unnecessarily uncharitable. She may have just not wanted
         | something to be published under his name without him having
         | final authority over it.
        
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