Father Sebastiaan

Father Sebastiaan is an American fangsmith,[1][2] published author and impresario.[3] He is a former dental assistant[4] working as a "fangsmith," crafting custom made fangs for consumers.[5][6] He is the founder of the Sabretooth Clan, a fangmaking business and social network for the vampire subculture, and has worked as an author and co-author of several books on the occult and the vampire subculture.[7]

Father Sebastiaan
Born (1975-01-23) January 23, 1975
San Diego, California
Pen nameFather Sebastiaan van Houten, Father Sebastian Todd, Sabretooth
OccupationFangsmith, Author, Impresario
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUSA, French
GenreEsoterica, erotica
SubjectOccult, chaos magic, left-hand path, paranormal, spirituality, vampires
Notable worksSanguinomicon, Vampyre Magick, Vampyre Virtues, Vampyre Mysteries, Vampyre Almanac, Strigoi Vii, Mysteries of Paris
Website
www.fathersebastiaan.com

Biography

Van Houten is an impresario club promoter, creating The New York Vampire Ball in 1996 and The Endless Night Festival in New Orleans in 1998, one of the "largest vampire gatherings in the world". He is noted with writing the first "Black Veils" based on the code of conduct of a club night he managed entitled "Long Black Veil."[8]

Media

Father Sebastiaan is best known for appearances on Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures. He also is a host of the largest Vampire Subculture event the Endless Night Vampire Balls.[9]

Bibliography

Books
  • The Vampyre Almanac 2000 (TheSanguinarium.com Press, 2000)
  • Vampyre Sanguinomicon: The Lexicon of the Living Vampire (Weiser, 2010)[10]
  • Vampyre Virtues: The Red Veils (TheSanguinarium.com Press, 2011)
  • Vampyre Magick: The Grimoire of the Living Vampire (Weiser, 2012)
  • The Vampyre Almanac 2012 (TheSanguinarium.com Press, 2012)
  • Vampyre Virtues; The Purple Veils (TheSanguinarium.com Press 2013)
  • Mysteries of Paris; Darkside of the City of Lights (Bast Books 2014)
  • Black Veils; The Vampire Lexicon (Bast Books 2018)
  • Black Veils; Master Vampyre Edition (Bast Books 2020)
  • Black Veils; Vampyre Tarot (Bast Books 2020)
  • In the Words of the Father, Memoirs of the Vampyre Sebastiaan Part 1 the 1990s (Bast Books 2021)

Co-authored books
  • The Vampyre Almanac (Sanguinarium Press, 2000) with Katherine Ramsland and Michelle Belanger.
  • V: The Book of the Strigoi VII (Aangel Publishing, 2003) with Layil Umbralux, Madame X.

Filmography

References
  1. "Hssssss! Where Wall Street vampires get their fangs". CNBC. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
  2. "The Real 'True Blood'?". Vice Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  3. "Open Lines & Vampyre Subculture". Coast to Coast AM. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
  4. "Interview with a Vampyre's Dentist". Newsweek. Retrieved 2013-10-25.
  5. "Fangsmith Fashions Sharp Canines for His Party-Loving Vampires". Bloomberg. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  6. Alexa Tsoulis-Reay (October 22, 2010). "First Person - Getting Fanged -". The Local East Village Blog - NYTimes.com. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  7. "Interview with the Vampire". Bettyconfidential.com. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
  8. Possamai, Adam (2012). Handbook of Hyper-real Religions. Brill Academic Pub. pp. 149, 159. ISBN 9004218815.
  9. Yalkin, Devin (2020-10-29). "Inside the Endless Night Vampire Ball". Rolling Stone.
  10. "Social Sciences Reviews, October 1, 2010". Library Journal. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  11. "The Secret Life of Vampires (dvd)". A&E. Retrieved 2009-09-05.

Further reading
  • Belanger, Michelle A. The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work. 30 November 2004. Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 978-1-57863-321-0
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