William B. Seabrook

"Perhaps the most honest and haunting accounts of the struggle for mental health in literature." — ObserverThis dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed himself to an asylum for treatment of acute alcoholism. His sincere, self-critical appraisal of his experiences offers a highly interesting look at addiction and treatment in the days before Alcoholics Anonymous and other modern programs."Very few people could be as honest as Seabrook is here," noted The New York Times, "and it is honesty plus the talent Seabrook has already had that makes a book of this sort first-rate." This edition of the soul-baring narrative features a new graphic novel–style introduction by Joe Ollmann, who also created the cover art."With zombies in vogue and his books coming back onto the market after decades out of print, maybe old Willie Seabrook, the lost king of the weird, can finally get the recognition and infamy he earned." ― Benjamin Welton, Vice.com

William Buehler Seabrook (1884 -1945) was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland.

1929. The author's West Indian mail boat lay at anchor in a tropical green gulf. At the water's edge, lit by sunset, sprawled the town of Cap Haitien. Among the modern structures were the wrecked mansions of the 16th century French colonials who imported slaves from Africa and made Haiti the richest colony in the western hemisphere. In the ruins was the palace built for Pauline Bonaparte when Napoleon sent his brother-in-law with an imperial army to do battle with slaves who had won their freedom. All this was panoramic as they lay at anchor, but as night fell, it faded to vagueness and disappeared. Only the jungle mountains remained, dark, mysterious; and from their slopes came presently far across the water the steady boom of Voodoo drums.

الناشر:يعتبر هذا الكتاب أكثر من ممتع.. وباهر.. حيث يتمتع سيبروك بنظر ثاقب ورؤية دقيقة لما يجري حوله, ولقد أغنى هذا العمل بالكثير من المعلومات, والعديد من الانطباعات. تتميز طريقته في رواية قصته بالروعة, وله بصيرة تستطيع النفاذ الى أعماق الشخصية والحدث... كما يتمتع بثقة كاملة ودون أدنى تردد, كما يصف الكتاب الشعوب الأخرى وأنماط حياتها وظروفهم المعيشية غير المألوفة. وكان من أهم ما تناوله الكتاب: بين البدو: بوجه الله, خيام سود وإبل بيض, مغوية الرجال في الصحراء, العبد منصور, ولي اللصوص, المسير الى الغزو, منشان عيون قطنه, بين الدروز: في معقل سلطان باشا الأطرش, العجل الذهبي, سيدة المختارة ذات النقاب, بين الدراويش: في صرح المولوي, قفزة ديدان حلمي, قاعة التعذيب الرفاعية, بين الزيدية: جبل عبدة الشيطان, في باحة الأفعى.

This book details the author's views on psychology, parapsychology and the occult, and contains information about the author's meetings with a number of famous people.

A first-hand account of cannibalism and the secret ceremonies of jungle magic practiced by primitive savages

A lesser-known figure of America's Lost Generation, Seabrook was a prolific traveller and author. 'Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields' is an excerpt from his 1929 book The Magic Island, a folklore-tinged travelogue about Haiti. Therefore, the stories he reproduces are midway between fact and fictionMany of these zombie stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Much of the book is devoted to pranks Wood pulled. Often these pranks were played on German police when Wood was a student. Elsewhere in the book, Seabrook describes Wood's contribution as a member of the Bureau of Inventions in the previous war against the Germans, World War I. On pages 33-35, Seabrook recounts Wood's experiments with hasheesh. Chapter 16 details Wood's analysis of King Tut's purple gold, using some techniques that would still be used by archaeologists.. Chapter 17 is titled in part "Wood as a Debunker of Scientific Cranks and Frauds," but this, too, shows Seabrook's bent. Much of the chapter is actually about debunking mediums in seances. Seabrook, like Huxley and J. B. Rhine and many others in his day, was fascinated with paranormal phenomena, and considered their study to be science. Wood used his X-ray machines and any other trick he could think of to outwit false mediums, even grabbing a poor woman's ectoplasm. Chapter 18 describes Wood's aid to the police in various explosive cases. Wood liked to blow things up, so he was well-equiped to aid the police by reconstructing bombs. He reconstructed the Wall Street Bomb of 1920, and helped put behind bars the bomb-killer of pregnant Naomi Hall. ( on line review) William Buehler Seabrook was a journalist and explorer whose interest in the occult lead him across the globe where he studied magic rituals, trained as a witch doctor, and famously ate human flesh, likening it to veal.

"Beast or poet? Monster or moralist? Charlatan or magician? Genius or madman?" These are the questions William Seabrook, the great writer on such things as zombies and witchcraft, posed when, in weekly instalments published in various American newspapers between April 1st, 1923 and June 17th, 1923, he presented the public with a startling expos� on his close friend Aleister Crowley, the famous occultist who was "one of the most complex characters in the modern world, and one of the most extraordinary in human history." Under the title of Astounding Secrets of the Devil-Worshippers' Mystic Love Cult, the series promised to reveal the intimate details of Crowley's unholy rites, his power over women, his drug orgies, his mysticisms, and his startling adventures around the globe as "the Beast of the Apocalypse." Presented here for the first time in book form, this remarkable group of chapters, which reads like a decadent novel, not only delivers on the advertised goods, but provides an intimate revelation of the man whose creed was "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."

1934. Because he would not write his own life story, the author presents this biography on the White Monk of Timbuctoo. The legendary White Monk of Timbuctoo, also known as Yakouba, was a renegade monk and renegade priest in the technical sense in that he unfrocked himself many years ago. He was an intriguing individual, married a black woman and begot thirty children. The author states that Yakouba was the only white man he knew that was happy, good and free. Yakouba presented the author with his notes, unpublished pages, sketches, ancient photographs and other information, they discussed and augmented the material, and it is found within this volume.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This vintage work contains an interesting and informative human study of America's citizens from Europe. It is not intended to be a statistical immigration treatise, but rather it aims to show in common, close-up, personal terms, what kind of people Americans of foreign-language origin, were. It aims to show how they contributed to the American scene, how they lived in the land of their adoption, and how they were viewed and treated there. The chapters of this book 'Native American Home 1938 Model', 'Scandinavian American', 'German Americans', 'Polish Americans', and 'Russian Americans'. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

"Abolish Language," said the vizier, "And man will return to primal simplicity and happiness."

Le masque de Justine est un document inédit. Il raconte l’histoire incroyable de l’écrivain américain William Seabrook qui toute sa vie a possédé des filles esclaves qu’il enchaînait avec leur consentement.C’est un document incontournable de la culture BDSM et de la soumission féminine. Une histoire vraie.William Seabrook à sa manière est un des continuateurs du Divin Marquis.Déconseillé au moins de dix-huit ans.

Il a eu 1001 vies. Né en 1884, William Seabrook était le reporter de l'impossible. Il a été le premier a enquêté sur le vaudou, a habité avec des tribus anthropophages, a vécu dans le désert parmi les bédouins, a décidé de devenir vagabond en Europe... Une personnalité hors-norme qui se livre ici une dernière fois avant de se suicider. William Seabrook a eu 1001 et une vie. Et encore, 1001 vies... L'estimation est sans doute en deçà de la réalité. Le curriculum vitae de cet homme né en 1884 laisse rêveur : engagé volontaire pendant la première guerre mondiale, gazé à Verdun, puis reporter, il a été le premier a enquêté sur le vaudou – il a d'ailleurs inventé le terme zombie -, il a habité avec des tribus anthropophages pour goûter de la chair humaine, a vécu dans le désert parmi les bédouins, a décidé de devenir vagabond en Europe pour voir s'il pouvait se passer de la réussite et du luxe... Ses articles ont été publiés dans le New York Times, Vanity Fair ou le Readers digest.L'île magique , son livre consacré au Vaudou en Haïti, a fasciné Paul Morand et Michel Leiris. Ses récits et ses voyages lui ont permis de nouer des amitiés avec Jean Cocteau et surtout le photographe Man Ray.