Saturday, November 24, 2007

Harry Stephen Keller

HARRY
STEPHEN KEELER (1890-1967) is one of the strangest writers who ever
lived. In his time, he was pegged as a mystery novelist who also wrote
some science fiction. Today, if you've heard of him at all, it's as the
Ed Wood of mystery novelists, a writer reputed to be so bad he's good.
Actually, no genre, nor "camp," can much suggest what Keeler is all
about. Take some typical Keeler situations: