During the first world war legendary English author Milton F Dink was injured during the battle of the Somme (November 1916) when a 7 inch shard of jagged metal flew in to his head. It was determined that they could not remove the shard without killing him, but that although it would be a source of constant agony, he could in theory survive with it in his head for many years.
After receiving treatment and returning to London he adopted a completely new identity, beginning to write fiction under the pseudonym John John Piss. After being printed in a few science fiction magazines, he hit his peak making a lucrative to deal to publish his now most famous work: The saga of the Ghost Strangler.

The Ghost Strangler anthology released in 1923 contained 13 stories that were written over the entire length of time he has adopted the Piss identity. During this time you could observe his steady decline, with his stories increasingly being concerned with his sudden, inexpiable hatred for the Welsh which began to dominate the narratives.

"The hideous freak of Yurt county"
"The tomb of Yugo-elat the abysmal cyst-licker"
"The really weird and scary shape that everyone forgot"
"The spirit beckons from the annex (murder in the embassy)"
"The sheep-man of Yshotehashau"
"The accursed maw of the mummy's curse "
"The serpent's teet"
"The count of St. Germaine at the center of the earth"
"Swain Sanders go to space Camp"
"That damned forest man"
"The Tokoloshe"
"The gibbering madmen from that terrible island"
"That Welsh Bastard;my evil cretinous neighbor"

He became obsessed with cryptic visions, claiming he could see a future were there were no more wars, no conflict at all and that people lived in total harmony. These visions caused him to enter in to a deep depression, he became irritable and expressed thoughts of suicide. However, After the large jagged piece of meddle lodged in his head was finally removed he no longer had any interest in these visions or in writing fiction, stating that he was "Done with that flowery bullshit" and he then began working in a lead paint factory until he died mysteriously at age 40 on October 16th 1932.

The character was adapted to film for the first time in 1949 when Swain Sanders was portrayed by American actor Drifford Marble. The film is a loose adaptation of the gibbering madmen from that terrible Island with  the drooling, cretinous half men inhabiting the titular island altered to be less obviously living in then contemporary Wales. It was well received and is often considered the definitive version of the character.