I wasn't planning on writing a review of Curse of Strahd. Book reviews are a lot of work. It's a couple days to read and digest the book, an hour to formulate and organize my thoughts, an hour or more to write, then another hour to edit and…
Tracy and Laura Hickman thought the vampire archetype was played out, used up, over-saturated. It was trite and mundane they thought, and pop culture had surely reached peak vampire.
That was in 1977.
Yet they were tasked with writing…