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xxx, Granny Anarchy William Seabrook: The ForgottonGreatGodfather of Gore-Or It's spooky season, and while most of us have heard of George Romero (whose film “Night of the Living Dead” pioneered the zombie film genre and earned Romero the title of "[god]father of zombies,") few may have heard the name William Seabrook. William Buehler Seabrook was born in Westminster, Maryland (about halfway between Baltimore and Gettysburg - yes, that Gettysburg – on February 22, 1884. He was reported to have “flaming red hair” and was the son of a preacherman; the grandson of a circuit preacher. Seabrook earned a Bachelor of Philosophy from Roanoke College and a Master of Arts from Newberry College. He also attended Switzerland's University of Geneva, where he studied philosophy. He worked as a reporter, then as city editor for the Augusta Chronicle. Already a character, “Willie” had applied for the job sporting a cane and a fake beard.

In 1915, during WWI, Seabrook joined the French Army’s American Field Service (a volunteer ambulance/military hospital corps.) – not out of patriotism nor compassion, but out of a sense of escape. (“I was a dog running in circles,” he wrote, “running away from myself.” – Atavist Magazine, No. 45) He was gassed with chlorine during the Battle of Verdun and sent home from the war. He later described his experience as “the only adventure I have ever had that was not disappointing,” yet was later awarded France's Croix de Guerre; the American equivalent to a Bronze or Silver Star. In 1917, he published Diary of Section VIII, about his time on the Western Front. After his return home, Willie became a reporter for the New York Times and lived a(n even) more nomadic life. He mingled with e.e. cummings, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Horace Mann, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, various members of the nobility and socialites. Seabrook was a partner in an advertising agency but left when the business began making money. He also bought a farm and planted a crop, walking away before harvest. In 1919, infamous occultist Aleister Crowley spent a week with Seabrook at Willies’s farm. Seabrook’s account can be found in part three of Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today. In the 1920s, Seabrook adventured to West Africa. He claimed to have encountered a culture* that partook of ritualistic cannibalism in the book Jungle Ways (published in 1930.) Later he admitted that he had not been allowed to participate in the ritual, but eventually bribed a museum intern to give him meat from the body of an accident victim so that Seabrook might consume and describe it. Willie may also have sampled human flesh with scandalous French socialite Daisy Fellowes (note: this salacious siren deserves her own biography!) * - The Guéré people of today’s Ivory Coast; there is little scholastic evidence of cannibalism among these people whose name means “men who easily forgive.”

In hindsight, it appears that Willie was a sensationalist, whether he meant to be or not, and his ultimate intention* may have been to garner attention. Jungle Ways is still referred to in the 2000s when the subject of cannibalism or the taste of human flesh comes up (though it appears to be incorrect.) * - In his autobiography No Hiding Place, Seabrook bemoans (pun not intended BUT I’M KEEPING IT) the fact that he’s not taken more seriously as a writer and that, of all things, he will be most remembered for zombies. In 1924, Seabrook explored Arabia, which he chronicled in Adventures in Arabia: Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervishes and Yezidee Devil Worshipers (pub. in 1927; please do keep in mind that modern understanding of “devil worshipping” and other cultures – are, we hope, more enlightened.) Adventures in Arabia cemented a pattern in Willie’s work and personal life of traveling to exotic destinations and chasing down strange/mysterious circumstances. While contemporary eyes may see Seabrook’s writing in a very different light, he saw himself as progressive. Intellectuals of his time were influenced by colonial expansion in the Caribbean and West Africa as well as Freud’s primal scene. It is perhaps understandable that Willie sought out the exotic and primordial. Seabrook then traveled to Haiti and wrote The Magic Island, which was published in 1929. He could have received more money to publish The Magic Island as magazine serial, but he chose not to when he learned it meant significant edits/alterations would be made to his work, including the complete removal of one of the characters. The Magic Island was published on January 3, 1929 by Harcourt, Brace & Company. The Magic Island is the first popular English-language text to describe zombies. Seabrook defines a zombie as "a soulless human corpse, still dead, but taken from the grave and endowed by

sorcery with a mechanical semblance of life—it is a dead body which is made to walk and act and move as if it were alive." At the time, critics praised it for its portrayal of the people and culture of Haiti and its exploration of Vodou*, although there were questions regarding Seabrook's accuracy and credibility. (In hindsight, the criticism can be expanded upon exponentially.) * - Other spellings include voodoo, vodun, or vudu; it is now generally agreed that Vodou is the preferred/most respectful spelling. However, historic bookbinder, publisher, & distributor Baker & Taylor (RIP ) named it one of January 1929's best-selling non-fiction books, and the Literary Guild of New York chose it as book of the month. The Magic Island – which also tackled colonialism and racism during the United States’ occupation of Haiti (1915-1934; but don’t be fooled; it, as well as Willie’s other work and personal correspondence, is peppered with condescending descriptions) inspired the 1932 stage play Zombie written by Kenneth Webb. Zombie was an influence on the 1932 horror film “White Zombie” written by Victor Halberin and starring Bela Lugosi with music by Xavier Cugat. (What, you didn't think Rob Zombie plucked his band name out of thin air, didja?) “White Zombie” is generally regarded as the first feature-length zombie film. It is to be noted here that the current mindset of zombies as infected, flesh-eating creatures did not emerge until after Romero's 1968 work and subsequent films (which may have been informed by Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend.) Following The Magic Island, Seabrook also wrote Air Adventure (about a trip from Paris to Timbuktu, 1933,) The White Monk of Timbuctoo (a biography Auguste Dupuis, a

French missionary who fell in love, married a native woman, and was then called Pere Yakouba; 1934) before writing his other most well-known work: Asylum (1935.) Asylum is an account of Seabrook’s voluntary seven-month commitment to a mental hospital in New York for treatment for a crippling addiction to alcohol. As The Magic Island influenced a major trope of modern horror, Asylum influenced – or at least resembled – the modern addiction/recovery memoir and twelve-step principles; Bill Wilson, the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is said to have read it before the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous (aka the “AA Bible” came out in 1939. “I was forced to see sober a panorama that had been nothing but a miserable series of “runnings away from myself” since earliest childhood…I took sober stock and saw that dissatisfaction, a sense of my own inability to arrive at a harmonious adjustment in any environment—sporadically dotted with flights and attempted escapes—had been the whole pattern of my life…Now I knew that all the time I had been running away from something, and that the thing had always been myself.” Asylum’s vulnerability, pain, and humor is "[p]erhaps the most honest and haunting accounts of the struggle for mental health in literature" (Observer) and is mentioned – though derogatorily and not by name - in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack Up, (1936 Esquire essays; published as a book in 1945.) Seabrook entered alcoholic treatment in 1933 – apparently on the day Prohibition was repealed. He went in and out of other treatments throughout his life but continued a cycle of drinking and ended up taking his own life on September 20, 1945.

Seabrook completed eleven books; he also wrote short stories and articles for publications such as Cosmopolitan, Reader’s Digest, and Vanity Fair. In addition to his fascination with the occult (he hexed Hitler in 1941, a ceremony which was covered by Life magazine) and his battle with alcohol, Seabrook was notorious in his time for his predilection for BDSM. (This would involve many more pages, trust Granny.) ⛓ Aleister Crowley (remember him?) couldn’t say a nice thing about him. Williams S. Burroughs, however, may have been a fan. Willie’s writing may have influenced the likes of Robert E. Howard as well as E. Hoffman Price and Henry St. Clair Whitehead – two writers who may not be well-known today, but who collaborated with H. P. Lovecraft. Seabrook had three wives: His first, Kathleen Pauline Edmondson, divorced him in 1934, when divorce was a difficult, stigmatizing option, particularly for a woman to initiate. His second wife, Marjorie Worthington travelled extensively with him and was also a writer; in 1966 her book The Strange World of Willie Seabrook was released. Constance Kuhr, who gave birth to his only child a son also named Willie, was his third. Interestingly, William Seabrook’s grandson, William IX, is a singer-songwriter in LA involved with Rock for Human Rights.

In System at Metro Library: Asylum William Seabrook The Abominable Mr. Seabrook Joe Ollmann What Do We Know About Zombies? Meg Belviso

Zombie Walk with Granny:

The Night the Zombies Came The Pixies Walk Among Us The Misfits Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories,

Zombies, and Black Surival Maria Pinto

Apocalypse Scenario

iZombie (DVD) Night of the Comet (DVD) ParaNorman (DVD) Shaun of the Dead (DVD) World War Z (DVD) Zombieland (DVD) Zombieland: Double Tap (DVD)

Coming to You Live

Available in E-FormatMira Grant's Newsflesh universe: All the Pretty Little Horses

Blackout The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell Deadline Feed FeedBack How Green This Land How Blue this Sea San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats also Nights of the Living Dead

Crappy Concert Pics (The concerts weren’t crappy – my photos are!)

Modest Mouse at the Criterion, OKC OK Wednesday Jun 25, 2025 Set List: King Rat Fly Trapped in a Jar Dashboard You're the Good Things Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset Remember Yourself Little Motel Dance Hall Tiny Cities Made of Ashes Doin' the Cockroach Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live. -

Peter Hook

Born to Kill Through These Eyes Tonight

Modest Mouse at the Criterion, OKC OK Wednesday Jun 25, 2025 Pups to Dust Shit Luck Spitting Veno Encore: The Stars Are Projectors Float On Gravity Rides Everything We Are Between The View

The Creeps Another State of Mind Mommy's Little Monster

Social Distortion at the Diamond Ballroom Sunday July 13, 2025

The Way Things Were

No Way Out

Far Side of Nowhere Prison Bound Reach for the Sky Social Distortion tour shirt, back

Encore: Ring of Fire Story of My Life Don't Drag Me Down Social Distortion tour shirt, front Without music, life would be a mistake. -

Friedrich Nietzsche

I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock. -

Buzz Osborne

MattstaGraham opening for Teen Mortgage and Descendents, Tower Theatre Tuesday July 22, 2025

Descendents, Tower Theatre Tue July 22, 2025

Descendents, Tower Theatre Tuesday July 22, 2025

Everything Sux Hope I Don't Want to Grow Up

Nothing With You I Wanna Be a Bear Rotting Out

Myage Clean Sheets Silly Girl

Van Thank You Nightage

Bikeage No Fat Burger Weinerschnitzel

I'm Not a Punk 'Merican Coffee Mug

No, All! I'm the One

On Paper

Coolidge Suburban Home Good Good Things

Catalina Grudge Get the Time

I Like Food My Dad Sucks Smile Via descendentscrew on Instagram (modified with pink text) To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom. -

Patti Smith

I just play Cure music, whatever that is. Encore: Jean Is Dead

Robert Smith

Via thepigeonmuseum on Instagram (modified with pink text)

Granny Anarchy’s concert clothes. Lookin’ a lil overstuffed because might’ve been a bit too in the ADHD moment and bought two shirts since MattstaGraham did not have CDs available at merch. (Wearing three tees which are all too large here.)’

Selected a Readage tee to remember the Descendents experience because Granny likes to lookit wurdz.

MattstaGraham had some really nifty Scott Pilgrim themed shirts but Matt (? Lead Singer Guitar Guy – I’m not a stalker type person so I assuming that is the most obvious name) said this one was his fave. He might have just been trying to get rid of old merch. But he was really nice and I feel like the above image a lot anyway. I was too nervous to get a pic with him.!

Music for You Black Guy Fawkes - Racial Battle Fatigue https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=c_MPNtKbX6E The Beths - No Joy https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=x-YWoVuqtp0 The Cure – Warsong (Chino Moreno Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=tIj00gi7SXE Dead Pioneers - Bad Indian https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=zjUUZxozCic Descendents – Ace https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=5h3qD2GNoI0 Descendents – Cheer https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=BXDhC7ZJt4E Descendents - Good Things https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=1HW4ej9q_dU Descendents - I'm the One https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=yOfvPNaNEMA The Hives - Enough is Enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=EbxrfflmPRE The Hives - Legalize Living https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=uqCV7wR-pmM King Ultramega - Rusty Cage https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=GKdMKFBrQpk MattstaGraham – Caffeine https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=xW5hRE5XDGM MattstaGraham – Petty https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=_v7yG8vBomA Mudhoney - Good Enough https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=MnB7zNrnRqk NIN - As Alive As You Need Me To Be https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=-Sj-FmI5JfA Ribbon Skirt – Cellophane https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=RUSIe7BMq90 Pixies - Into the White https://www.youtube.com/watch

?v=1PgTIEShXo4 Primo Danger – Demagnetized https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=cE1q2CuB9A4