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Jones, Ghostly. Ghostly Jones was created by “Dale Clark,” the pseudonym of Ronal Kayser (Doc Judson, Mike O’Hanna, Plates O’Rion, Highland Park Price), and appeared in a number of stories in Dime Mystery Magazine in 1939, beginning with “Shrine of the Thunder God” (Dime Mystery Magazine, Mar. 1939).

Once upon a time Jones’s mother was victimized by a crooked seance scam, and she never recovered from being swindled. Jones grew up and captured the man, and then made it his crusade to squash all such con men. “Ghostly Jones, they called him, because he had devoted his life to crushing fake mediums and charlatans who preyed on innocent people.”

There was unsmiling, grim humor in the nickname. He specialized in ghostology, all right—in unmasking fraudulent mediums, sinisterly spurious spiritualists, the whole hodge-podge and claptrap of a rotten, bloodsucking racket.

He didn’t look ghostly. He was tall, red-haired and freckled. Thoroughly unhandsome, he had moodily twisted lips and coppery eyes as bright as fresh minted pennies. The strangely colored eyes were penetrating, almost psychic in their probing stare.

Some insisted he was psychic—that he turned mesmeric, clairvoyant powers against he scoundrels who only pretended to possess supernatural gifts!

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