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* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] was known to disregard continuity whenever it suited him (mostly on the account of not seeing the point in continuity in the first place). The name "Old Ones" referred to both gods like Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth but also strange alien races like the one in ''The Shadow out of Time''. Likewise, he has claimed that the "nightmare plateau of Leng" is in Asia, Antarctica and an otherworldly dreamland in various stories. [[Unreliable Narrator|One's sanity is a tenuous thing, after all...]]

* [[Robert Rankin]]'s Brentford <s>trilogy</s> [[Trilogy Creep|octalogy]] keeps the [[Reset Button]] firmly held down at all times - Brentford itself has been repeatedly destroyed/heavily damaged {{spoiler|and on occasion, had the ''Great Pyramid of Giza'' teleported directly on top of it}}, world changing events are promptly ignored in later books, secondary characters disappear without a trace and almost the entire main cast {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All|was wiped out]] in book 3}}.

* The stories in ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' by Max Shulman contradict each other in many ways, as the author's note points out.