He developed an interest in the supernatural soon before he died, producing such works as The Political History of the Devil and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions--years after he wrote such early English ghost stories as "The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley."  
He developed an interest in the supernatural soon before he died, producing such works as The Political History of the Devil and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions--years after he wrote such early English ghost stories as "The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley."  He wrote the mock ode "A Hymn to the Pillory" in prison in 1703, soon after writing the satiric poem "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters," but is better known for the Jounral of the Plague Year and the novel Moll Flanders.  For 10 points- name this Englishman who retold the story of Alexander Selkirk in his novel Robinson Crusoe.
He developed an interest in the supernatural soon before he died, producing such works as The Political History of the Devil and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions--years after he wrote such early English ghost stories as "The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley."  
Daniel Defoe (or Daniel Foe)