- HARRY STEPHEN KEELER Home Page It was like trying to think about the square root of minus zero. --Harry Stephen Keeler 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 ...users.aol.com/bigsecrets/Keeler/index.html