Description
The Vampyre Sebastiaan Book I: the 1990s is the history of the Vampyre Culture/Community (VC) through the memoirs of Father Sebastiaan author of the Black Veils, Impresario of the Endless Night Vampire Ball, Master Fangsmith and founder of the Sanguinarium network and the legendary Sabretooth Clan.
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One of the central personalities and architects of the modern vampire community, Father Sebastiaan is “the most controversial vampire since Lestat.” Through a series of interviews with Dr. Heather Joseph-Witham Ph.D., MA (Folklore and Mythology) UCLA, in this volume, he shares the formative years of having a dream to build a worldwide network and culture for the real-life vampires. This includes codifying common ethics, terminology, symbolism, ceremonies, rituals, traditions, art, music, and types of gatherings which he has compiled into a lexicon which are presented in his book Black Veils.
He further elaborates on his formative years shaping the VC from his base in New York City working in the nightlife in legendary clubs such as the Limelight and Mother.
Father Sebastiaan is one of the central personalities of the Vampyre Culture and Community (VC) worldwide. He entered the subculture in 1992 and is best known as the Endless Night Vampire Ball Impresario, author of several books including BLACK VEILS “Master Vampyre Edition”, Strigoi Vii Path of the Living Vampyre and ‘Founding Father’ of the Sabretooth Clan, Magus in the Ordo Strigoi Vii (OSV) and countless organizations and businesses. He is an avid student of chaos magick, lover of roleplaying games, student of the paranormal, an expert on Vampyre Culture, fascinated by ancient cultures, and devoted to exploring art, music, tradition and history.
Over the three decades in the VC, Father has appeared on a multitude of television programs and networks including Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures, A&E, CNN, Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, USA Up All Night, and MTV’s Oddville. He was also featured as a central character in the French documentary and book Vampyres: Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction by Laurent Courau, as well as Katherine Ramsland, Anne Rice biographer’s, book Piercing the Darkness; Undercover with Vampires in America Today. In print media he and his projects have had feature articles in Revolver Magazine, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, The Financial Times, InStyle Magazine, Glamour, Skin Two, and Time Out New York.
Sebastiaan was born in San Diego California, the New York metropolitan area and has lived in Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Paris, Dubai and Berlin. He now is pursuing his writing career as a traveler somewhere in the world on a Vampire Adventure.
Author Heather Joseph-Witham Ph.D., MA (Folklore and Mythology) UCLA; BA UCLA is a professor at Otis Collage of Art and Design. Author of “Ironic Bodies and Tattooed Jews," “The Magical Harry Potter," as well as Star Trek Fans and Costume Art. Folklore expert on many TV shows Producer of three DVD's: "Alien Images," "UFO's in Derbyshire," and "The Costume Art of Star Trek Fans."
