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Harry Stephen Keeler was a half-mad pulp fiction writer best known for his completely nonsensical plots and generally odd way of writing.

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His work includes examples of:

• Author Appeal: Skulls, Clowns, Corpses...
• Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit: "John Jones's Dollar"
• Door Stopper: His novel cycles.
• The Film of the Book: Sing Sing Nights to The Mysterious Mr. Wong.
• Kudzu Plot: Or as he called it "The Webwork Novel".
• Mind Screw: Just read the resolution of X. Jones of Scotland Yard
• Padding
• Purple Prose

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