Jackson Elias

Jackson Elias is a writer, specialising in books about strange and violent cults. He started life as an orphan in Stratford, Connecticut, and learned to make his own way early in life. He has no living relatives and no permanent address.

His Best known book is Sons of Death, exposing modern-day Thuggees in India. He speaks several languages fluently and is constantly travelling. Elias is tough, stable and punctual, unafraid of brawls or officials. He is mostly self-educated.

Elias is a lifelong skeptic. While he is fascinated by cults with ghoulish beliefs, he considers their members to be deluded and their evils to be of purely human origin. At least, that is, until he went to Peru with the Mystery Shack Investigators.

Phobias and Manias
Elias appeared to have neither Phobias nor Manias

Relationships
Mother Rosemary -

Clifford Underwood -

Dennis Merkel -

Rabbi Adam Ben Hesed -

Father Thomas Thomas (Junior) -

Books
Skulls Along The River (1910) - Exposes headhunter cults in the Amazon basin

Masters of the Black Arts (1912) - Surveys supposed sorcerous cults throughout history

The Way of Terror (1913) - Analyzes systematization of fear through cult organization

The Smoking Heart (1915) - First half discusses historical Mayan death cults. The second half concerns present-day Central American death cults.

Sons of Death (1918) - Modern day Thuggees; Elias infiltrated the cult and wrote a book about it

Witch Cults of England (1920) - Summarizes covens in nine English counties; interviews practicing English witches

The Black Power (1921) - Expands upon The Way of Terror and includes some material on Asian and African death cults; inculdes interviews with several anonymous cult leaders

The Hungry Dead (1923) - Details an expedition into Puno, Peru, to the ruins of the Khairisri cult Pyramid hidden in the hills with the investigators from The Mystery Shack