![]() ![]() ![]() This superb novel is the first of many Harry Stephen Keeler novels that I will read. de Mexico, and even Ernest Vincent Wright’s 1939 novel Gadsby, a book written absent the letter e. The Riddle of the Traveling Skull is from another era and is not an attempt at realism, but a wild, engaging and brilliantly implausible crazy mystery told by an exceptionally distinct craftsman who has no known peers. They’ve also brought back forgotten works by such authors as Philip Jose Farmer, Anthony Boucher, N.R. To date, they have made available to Keeler’s small but growing group of devoted readers dozens of his novels, including several that were never published during his lifetime, and a collection of Keeler’s nonfiction. However, it galls me to read a statement like this one: “It’s the first Keeler to see print in more than 50 years.” With no doubt, this reprint is major news, both for Keeler fanatics and for mystery enthusiasts alike, but Marr’s blithe claim slights the successful efforts of the invaluable Ramble House (a private publishing house in Louisiana devoted to the reprinting of the totality of Keeler’s works. I share Marr’s hope that Keeler’s “time may have finally come.” It was delightful to read the review of the McSweeney’s reprint of Harry Stephen Keeler’s novel The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, and it was doubly delightful to see it reviewed by as perceptive and appreciative a gentleman as John Marr. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife. ![]() Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Line-Up Announced > Close ![]()
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