![]() His works included an Oscar Wilde-inspired vampire novel The House of the Vampire (1907) and poetry collections such as The Three Sphinxes (1924). The most shocking details-at least for its 1952 audience-involve semi-explicit accounts of “situational homosexuality.” Or, in other words, when “straight” men bang each other because there’s no women around.īefore getting locked up, George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) was a popular author and famous enough to make headlines. The “story” spans the 4.5 years that Viereck was imprisoned and examines everything from the court system to wormy food to prison politics to character studies of murderers and thieves. Extremely problematic given its author, but well-composed and surprisingly gripping. ![]() A fascinating memoir of the American prison system in the 1940s, amid peak WWII fervor. ![]()
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