See the bottom of today’s ‘stack for some news and updates, and also for some summary comments on my “reader survey” of two weeks ago. “Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in?” Juliet 1. Western Europeans and Americans visiting Romania for the first time will often be told that any association of the place with vampires is really an unfair imposition, having mostly to do with Bram Stoker’s more or less ex-nihilo invention of a Transylvanian setting for his 1897 novel,