This book is a republication of the 1920 edition of Houdini’s Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, as originally published by E. P. Dutton & Company. In it, Houdini collects notes and stories about various dime museum attractions and circus wonders he met personally while traveling or learned about while studying his profession. These tales include feats of sword swallowers, fire eaters, poison defiers, human ostriches, and more. Do not try them at home. Or anywhere else.

This Centennial Edition appears 101 years after the original E. P. Dutton publication. One year escaped us.