Claude Seignolle

He later joined the French Prehistoric Society, where he met the renowned folklorist Arnold Van Gennep.

With his brother Jacques, Claude toured Hurepoix for two years collecting folklore and legends, and in 1937 he co-wrote with his brother The Folklore of Hurepoix, which was praised by Pierre Mac Orlan and Blaise Cendrars.

He lived in the liberation St. Montaine, still in Sologne, where he collected local folklore and stories that inspired several of his books.

[3] He is considered by some to be one of the best French fantasists; Lawrence Durrell has written of Seignolle: "The devils, the werewolves and the vampires...appear in his novels as disturbing realities, and the attitude he adopts towards them is so matter-of-fact that the reader rapidly finds himself believing in them...."[3] Horror historian R.S.

[7] A literary prize bearing his name recognizes the works relating to French folklore.