The Scent Archive

Powder your wig and add an extra hoop to your skirt, today we’re talking all things Marie Antoinette. Who were her lovers? Did she cause the French Revolution? Did she actually say, “Let them eat cake”? We’ll discuss all that and more on today’s episode.

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Non-fiction

Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17157.Marie_Antoinette

Fiction

Becoming Marie Antoinette (Trilogy) by Juliet Grey - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9951003-becoming-marie-antoinette

The Mistresses of Versailles (Trilogy) by Sally Christie - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33362126-the-sisters-of-versailles

Marie Antoinette: Serial Killer by Katie Alender - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16139598-marie-antoinette-serial-killer

Podcasts

Marie Antoinette on Queens Podcast - http://queenspodcast.libsyn.com/marie-antoinette-episode-13

Marie Antoinette on Noble Blood - http://noblebloodtales.com/

Movies

Marie Antoinette (2006) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/

Farewell, My Queen (2012) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1753813

Perfume

La Reine Antoinette - https://www.immortalperfumes.com/imported-products/marie-antoinette-inspired-perfume-oil

Bonus!

Song: Versailles by Thylacine - http://en.chateauversailles.fr/node/821/versailles-thylacine

Marie Antoinette’s Enduring Mystique - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/arts/marie-antoinette-exhibition-Paris.html

Hofburg Palace - https://www.hofburg-wien.at/en/

Schönbrunn Palace - https://www.schoenbrunn.at/en/

Happy Halloween listeners! In honor of my favorite holiday, I send you off into the last creepy night of October with the story of Elizabeth Bathory, the inspiration behind modern vampire lore and the most prolific female serial killer in history. Bathory is said to have bathed in the blood of virgins to stay young and beautiful with a victim count as high as 600 and as low as 50. Tune in for all the bloody details.

Countess Dracula by Tony Thorne - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1174971.Countess_Dracula

Astonishing Legends: Elizabeth Bathory Part 1 -https://www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2019/6/21/blood-bathory-part-1

Serial Killers: Elizabeth Bathory - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/409-serial-killers-28186923/episode/the-blood-countess-elizabeth-bathory-29783846/

House of Bathory by Linda Lafferty - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18184303-house-of-bathory

Soulless by Gail Carriger - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6381205-soulless

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Today we whisper a final goodnight to Harry Houdini as we discuss the tradition of Houdini séances that have taken place continuously since his death on Halloween night of 1926. Tune in on Halloween for a special episode about the Blood Countess.

Houdini’s Final Séance Transcript: http://livetowriteanotherday.blogspot.com/search/label/final%20houdini%20seance

More on Arthur Ford: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2012/03/the_day_houdini_almost_came_back_from_the_dead/?%2Fsi%2Fshow%2Fthe_day_houdini_almost_came_back_from_the_dead

Photos of Houdini’s Grave: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/houdinis-grave

Maître du Mystère Cologne Oil: https://www.immortalperfumes.com/imported-products/matre-du-mystre-a-magical-cologne-inspired-by-houdini

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Margery the Medium used the ghost of her dead brother Walter to conduct her séances. When Scientific American Magazine put forth a contest with a $2500 prize for any medium who could produce verifiable psychic phenomena , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recommended her. Harry Houdini was not having it and made it his mission to expose Margery as a fraud.

Further Reading:

The Witch of Lime Street by David Jaher - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24724228-the-witch-of-lime-street

The Medium and the Magician on History Net - https://www.historynet.com/mina-crandon-harry-houdini-the-medium-and-the-magician.htm

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In today’s episode, we’re going to give voice to Bess Houdini a performer and magician in her own right, who like many women was eclipsed by her husband’s ambition. Tune in to learn all the magical details about Bess’ life before and after Harry.

Check out these old clippings for her tea shop: https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2012/01/mrs-harry-houdinis-rendezvous.html

Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814489-mrs-houdini

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If you hear the name Houdini and just think of the David Copperfield, David Blaine, Criss Angel school of magicians, that is to say campy and old fashioned, I’m here to blow your mind with espionage, Sherlock Holmes, the Romanovs, and more psychics than you can count! Buckle up dear listeners and imagine yourself in a dark room, hands clasped around the séance table as a series of unearthly raps starts tapping out a message from beyond the grave as we dive into the life of Harry Houdini, Master Mystifier.

New episodes on Mondays. You can listen on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or Stitcher. Follow on Instagram or Facebook @storicalpodcast

Fiction

The Confabulist by Stephen Galloway - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18339598-the-confabulist

Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814489-mrs-houdini

Non-fiction

The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush & Larry Sloman -https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13944.The_Secret_Life_of_Houdini

The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24724228-the-witch-of-lime-street

The Magician and the Spirits by Deborah Noyes - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33246089-the-magician-and-the-spirits

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleishmann - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107414.Escape_

Movies and TV

Houdini (1953) starring Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045886/

Houdini (1998) starring Johnathon Schaech - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159276/

Houdini (2014) starring Adrien Brody - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3132738/

The Prestige starring Hugh Jackman & Christian Bale - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

Podcasts

Harry Houdini and the Golden Age of Magic: Spectacle, sorcery and spiritualism in New York by The Bowery Boys - http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2018/08/harry-houdini-and-the-golden-age-of-magic-spectacle-sorcery-and-spiritualism-in-new-york.html

Further Reading and Bonus Links

Wild About Harry - https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/

Harry Houdini’s Voice Recording from 1914 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Houdini%27s_voice.ogg

Footage of Harry Houdini escaping a straight jacket - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r8qr-p9z5g

Houdini Séance at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles - http://www.magiccastle.com/seance/