About

dr snake

Dr. Snake (AKA Dr Hash, Jimmy Lee Shreeve, GhostSmoke) is a bestselling cult author, hoodoo bluesman, and talk radio presenter. He also provides high-quality spellcasting services to clients around the world.

Dr. Snake learned the arts of conjuration from the late Earl Marlowe, a Trinidadian singer and hoodoo herbal doctor whom Snake played in a band with during the 1980s. Besides music, the two would perform love spells, luck spells and money spells for people in London and other parts of the UK, and later the USA.

These experiences are chronicled in Doktor Snake’s Voodoo Spellbook, published in the USA by St. Martin’s Press and in the UK by Connections. With evocative illustrations by Chris Daunt, the book has been described as “Carlos Castaneda meets deep south hoodoo.”

Today Dr. Snake divides his time between London, LA, and his country retreat on the eastside of paradise, where he cannot be reached by phone, fax or e-mail. Only true hoodoos know how to reach him there.

Dr. Snake walks on the edge of forever and always pays heed to his dreams.

Other Books

Dr. Snake’s other books include How To Be Famous (Orion), Mary Jane’s Hash Brownies, Hot Pot, And Other Marijuana Munchies (Cico), Blood Rites (Arrow), Cannibals (John Blake) and Human Sacrifice (Barricade).

Snakeman Live

For live shows, Dr. Snake riffs out classic and original blues numbers, tells stories, and dispenses sage hoodoo advice to the crowd. He appears in his trademark wide-brimmed hat and shades, wears a silver snake ring and smokes the occasional Cuban cigar.

With a case full of hoodoo “conjure” paraphernalia, Dr. Snake makes up charms and talismans for members of the audience who want assistance in matters of love, money or luck.

In between dispensing hoodoo conjure and advice, Dr. Snake plays deep blues riffs on his old battered guitar, plugged through a Vox busking amp. A Bowie knife is wedged under the strings to raise them for Dr Snake’s specialty – soulful and haunting slide guitar.

Did You Know

Every year on Halloween night Dr Snake entertains six of his ancestors, whose ghosts dine and drink dark rum with him.
Dr Snake has often graced the pages of the British tabloid press