Father Sebastiaan is considered by many the "Founding Father" and the leading expert on the modern the Vampire Culture (VC) and mythology. He entered the subculture in 1992, and is the Endless Night Vampire Ball Impresario, author of several books including "Black Veils" and "Master Fangsmith of the Sabretooth Clan". He is an avid practitioner of chaos magic, lover of role playing games, paranormal investigator and is fascinated by ancient cultures and devoted to exploring art, music, tradition and history.Over the three decades in the VC, Father Sebastiaan has appeared on a multitude of television programs and networks including A&E, CNN, Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures, 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'd book Piercing the Darkness; Undercover with Vampires in America Today. In print media he and his projects have had feature articles in Bloomberg News, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, The Financial Times, InStyle Magazine, Glamour, Skin Two, and New York Time Out.Sebastiaan was born in San Diego California, grew up in 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 gypsy somewhere in the Vampire World.