Buy Keeler swag
- Harry Stephen Keeler Society Store: your source for official t-shirts, mugs, printed back issues of Keeler News, and more.
Buy Keeler's books
- Ramble House: nearly every novel Keeler ever wrote, printed on demand in paperback, at a reasonable price: what more could you want? This is a great, affordable way to discover Keeler's convoluted world.
- McSweeney's offers a beautiful edition of The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, with an introduction by Paul Collins. This is a favorite of many Keeler fans, and a great first Keeler to read.
More about Keeler in general
- Harry Stephen Keeler Home Page: more fascinating dope on Keeler by William Poundstone--including a plot summary of The Man With the Magic Eardrums.
- Harry Stephen Keeler First Edition Checklist: an excellent bibliography by Scott Brown. Companion to a fine article by Paul Collins in the July-August edition of Fine Books & Collections, which you can order here.
- Spineless Books includes William Gillespie's thoughts on applying Keeler's plot theory, his own explanation of that theory in plain language, and Keeler's own explanation in exquisitely convoluted language.
- Madness in His Method: an introduction to Keeler by Leonard Pierce, from High Hat.
- A prolific, erratic, idiosyncratic world-builder: James Sallis reports on Keeler for the Boston Globe.
- Web Pages: an article by Village Voice writer Ed Park explores Keeler's compositional techniques.
- Only Connect: an interview with Ed Park by Rachel Aviv digs deeper into Keeler and contemporary literature.
- Painful Prose is Out There for the Taking: a Dec. 2003 bit by the Austin Chronicle's "Mr. Smartypants."
- Bad Writers Never Had it so Good: an article from the Wall Street Journal, of all places, about HSK and Ramble House. (But Keeler isn't really a bad writer, of course.)
- Steve Edwards interviews Richard Polt about Keeler on WBEZ Chicago's "Eight Forty-Eight," November 1, 1999 (RealAudio). Go to Clip 2 and scroll to the interview. Interview runs from 17:40 to 30:05.
- Strange Romance: A short film by Nick Eades and Graham Self, based on Keeler's first short story.
- Keeler as Insolitologist
- The MetaFilter community discovers Keeler.
- Wikipedia article on Keeler
- Harry Stephen Keeler Tribute: a Japanese fan site by Kiichiro Yanashita. A rendition into "English" can be procured here.
- Harry Stephen Keeler Fan Club: another Japanese site, by Daisuke Nishimura. "English" here.
Reviews of Keeler creations
- Very Strange Coincidences: Ed Park on the connection between Harry Stephen Keeler and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
- The Voltaic Yoo-Hoo Acid Test: Devin McKinney reviews The Riddle of the Traveling Skull for the Village Voice.
- The Case of the Lost Logorrheic: John Marr reviews The Riddle of the Traveling Skull for the Chicago Reader and provides a great capsule introduction to HSK (PDF file).
- Bret McCabe reviews Skull in Baltimore City Paper. "A truly bonkers writer this enjoyable, prolific, and unknown is a gift from the Dada gods."
- Krazy Keeler: a Skull review in the Toronto Globe and Mail by Martin Levin.
- The Worst Writer in the World: Otto Penzler's hysterical reaction in the New York Sun to the reprint of Skull has no doubt generated some curiosity. Thanks, Otto!
- Georges Dodds reviews HSK's The White Circle and Y. Cheung, Business Detective, and provides an excellent crash course in Keeleriana.
- Don Webb reviews Keeler's The Box from Japan in the February 2001 F&SF magazine.
- White Men with Tape on their Eyes: Brian Thomas reviews The Mysterious Mr. Wong, one of the two known Keeler-based films.
Uncategorizable Keeleriana
- Follow HSK on Twitter. Yes, Harry emits tweets from the etheric plane! They appear to be items from The Keyhole, his '60s newsletter for friends and foes.
Meet more unique personalities
- Joel Townsley Rogers: a site created by his son. JTR, like Keeler, wrote bizarre mystery stories full of coincidences--but with a much darker tone. His best-known work is The Red Right Hand.
- Lionel Fanthorpe: A legendary SF hack who churned out hundreds of hilarious pulp novels.
- Raymond Scott: music to read Keeler by.
- Richard Polt: founder of the HSK Society.
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