George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. In 1904, with the help of literary critic Ludwig Lewisohn he published his first collection of poems, followed in 1907 by Nineveh and Other Poems which won Viereck national fame. He turned into a Germanophile between 1907 and 1912. In 1908 be published the best-selling Confessions of a Barbarian. He lectured at the University of Berlin on American poetry in 1911. He founded two publications, The International and The Fatherland, which argued the German cause during World War I. Viereck became a well-known Nazi apologist, and was indicted for a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1941. His memoir of life in prison, Men into Beasts, was published as a paperback original by Fawcett Publications' Gold Medal Book line of paperback originals in 1952. Viereck also published one of the first known gay vampire novels The House of the Vampire (1907). Not only is this one of the first known gay vampire stories, but it is also one of the first psychic vampire stories- where a vampire feeds off of more than just blood.