London Fortean Society in association with Conway Hall presents: The Inventor of the Zombie: The life and times of William B Seabrook: pervert, drunk, cannibal, occultist and 'negrophile'. Roger Luckhurst £5 Sold out. Please contact us regarding returns. Tuesday 8 September 2015 7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn / Direction s. Facebook event page This talk will explore the life of William Seabrook (1884-1945), once a Magic Island celebrated feature writer, journalist, travel writer and friend to many key artists of the New York and Paris Modernist era. Seabrook's exotic travels led him to join the Bedouins, attempt to eat human flesh in West Africa, experiment with witchery with Aleister Crowley, pay Man Ray to photograph Lee Miller in bondage, and in his most lasting legacy travel to Haiti and publish Magic Island, the book he claimed introduced the zombie to American popular culture. As Seabrook's books begin t...
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