The Magician’s Ghost
The Magician's Ghost tells the story of a friendship spanning the natural, the fictional and the supernatural in a new play to mark the 150th anniversary of magician Harry Houdini's birth.
About The Magician’s Ghost
A hundred years ago this year, renowned magician Harry Houdini hired a struggling scribbler called HP Lovecraft to ghostwrite a tale based on a strange experience he had in Egypt.
At the time Lovecraft was himself going through a strange and terrifying event he would avoid speaking of for the rest of his life: marriage to an independent writer and business woman.
What followed would change their lives and forever mark the world.
The Magician's Ghost tells the story of a friendship spanning the natural, the fictional and the supernatural in a new play by the 2019 Bruntwood Award longlisted and 2021 Through The Mill Award shortlisted writer, Oliver Giggins, specially performed to mark the 150th anniversary of Houdini's birth.
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