George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 in Munich, died March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist. His father, Louis, born out of wedlock to German actress Edwina Viereck, was reputed to be a son of Kaiser Wilhelm I, although another relative of the Hohenzollern family assumed legal paternity. Louis in the 1870s joined the Marxist socialist movement, and in 1896 emigrated to the United States, followed by his wife and 12-year-old George Sylvester in 1897.

December 2, 2002 (Romania) - A 60-year-old Romanian woman who went to the cinema to watch a version of Dracula spent several hours alone in the building after she was accidentally locked inside.

Zinca Margarit, from Bucharest, was on the toilet when the cinema workers checked the building and left.

Ron Chaney's hillside home near Palm Springs doesn't look much like a haunted house, but he always looks forward to getting it ready for Halloween. Chaney is, after all, a descendent of monsters.

March 31, 2007 (Kevin Meade / Sunday Tasmanian) - Tracey Wigginton, a lesbian "vampire" serving life for murder, is fighting a decision by Queensland Corrective Services to move her from a prison farm to the higher-security Brisbane women's prison.

I knew it was coming, I heard it coming, but I said nothing.
I felt my worry increase but was afraid he'd think I cared too much and would back off.
I painfully stepped around the glass until he told me what was going on:
I had to cross the razors beneath my feet slowly, as to not cut myself and bleed to death in his sight.
I simply sat silent as he complained to me, yet I felt my shoulders slump, my energy sag.
His pain oozed over my confused flesh and I turned black for him.
My silence scared him away, but he left the glass behind for me.