Columns share an author’s personal perspective. I’ve been bitten by a vampire. Okay, not really. But it certainly looks that way. When I woke up one morning, I had two red spots on my neck, about ...

The vampire genre is a lot like a vampire: It has lived for hundreds of years, and every time you think it’s about to die off it gets an infusion of new blood. Since the logistics of neck-biting and ...