A conversation with Brad Ricca

Name: A conversation with Brad Ricca
Start: 2025-10-28T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-28T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121

Schedule

Tue Oct 28 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121 | South Euclid, OH

Join us at our South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch for a conversation with Brad Ricca, author of "Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency."
Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/14300813
Ricca earned his Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University where he currently teaches. The author of "Super Boys," he has spoken on comics at various schools and museums, and he has been interviewed about comics topics by The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and All Things Considered on NPR. His film Last Son won a 2010 Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
"Lincoln's Ghost" is the incredible untold story of how the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, waged war upon Spiritualism, uncovering unknown magic, political conspiracies, and surprising secrets along the way.
You won’t live forever, Houdini. You’ve got to DIE. I put a curse on you ...
During a séance in 1924, Houdini—the greatest entertainer in the world—was cursed by a vengeful spirit, who said his days were numbered. Houdini laughed. He believed talking to the dead was impossible. By 1926, Houdini was dead.
This is the untold story of the last performance of Harry Houdini, who—inspired by his hero Abraham Lincoln—devotes himself full-time to a personal crusade against Spiritualism, the practice of speaking to the dead. In a spellbinding journey across Jazz Age America, haunted by the aftermath of the Great War and a deadly pandemic, Houdini encounters modern-day haunted houses, warlocks, and monsters, and uncovers a shocking conspiracy that stretches all the way to the American presidency—and to the House of Houdini itself.
📕 Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.