Career
His main interests were folklore and archaeology before he turned to fiction. He has also written under the pseudonyms "Starcante", "South. Claude" and "Jean-Robert Dumoulin". At the age of twelve his family moved to Chatenay-Malabry and he went to school in Lakanal at Sceaux where his history teacher encouraged his interests in archaeology.
He was expelled from this school for absenteeism.
He later joined the French Prehistoric Society, where he met the renowned folklorist Arnold Van Gennep. In 1945 he published his first novel Le Rond des sorciers.
He lives in the liberation Saint Montaine, still in Sologne, where he collects local folklore and stories that inspired several of his books Seignolle wrote several books of supernatural horror, including The Accursed.
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.." Horror historian R.S. Hadji included Seignolle on his list of the greatest horror writers.