Elliott O'Donnell (1872-1965) was an Irish author known primarily for his books about ghosts. He claimed to have seen a ghost, described as an elemental figure covered with spots, when he was five years old. He also claimed to have been strangled by a mysterious phantom in Dublin. Later in his career, he travelled to the U. S. and became a police officer during the Chicago Railway Strike of 1894. He also served in the British Army in World War I. His first book was For Satan's Sake, published in 1904. His other works include: Unknown Depths (1905), Some Haunted Houses (1908), Haunted Houses of London (1909), Reminiscences of Mrs. E. M. Ward (1910), Byways of Ghostland (1911), The Meaning of Dreams (1911), Scottish Ghost Stories (1912), Werewolves (1912), Animal Ghosts (1913), Ghostly Phenomena (1913), Haunted Highways and Byways (1914), The Irish Abroad (1915), Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter (1916), The Haunted Man (1917), Fortunes (1918), Haunted Places in England (1919), Menace of Spiritualism (1920), More Haunted Houses of London (1920), The Banshee (1926), Strange Disappearances (1927) and Confessions of a Ghost Hunter (1928). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.