Daniel Cohen

March 12, 1936

Daniel Edward Cohen (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an American non-fiction writer who has produced over one-hundred books, mainly for young audiences. After graduating in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1958, he worked as a proofreader at Time Inc. before becoming an editor for Science Digest. In 1969 he moved to upstate New York with his wife, Susan Handler Cohen, to begin a career as a freelance children’s writer. Cohen is well known for his books about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, cryptozoology, and the occult. Though Cohen is a self-described skepti

• Phantom animals
• Railway ghosts and highway horror
• Curses, hexes, & spells
• The phantom hitchhiker
• Southern Fried Rat & Other Gruesome Tales
• The encyclopedia of ghosts
• The Encyclopedia of Monsters
• The world's most famous ghosts
• Ghost in the house
• Ghostly tales of love & revenge
• Monsters you never heard of
• Re, thinking