Wall Street Journal:  What a Tax Lawyer Dug Up on 'Dracula,' by John J. Miller:

[The challenge for a lot of classic books is that [t]he stories are so familiar that their twists and turns fail to shock or awe. Yet the publisher W.W. Norton & Co. seems to have found a commercially viable way out of this fix, with a series of annotated volumes that perform the marketing miracle of making the old seem new again. The latest, The New Annotated Dracula, is out just in time for Halloween. …

Leslie S. Klinger, the editor of "The New Annotated Dracula," nevertheless manages to enliven the experience of reading about the world's most famous undead white male. …

By day, Mr. Klinger is a Los Angeles tax attorney with clients in the entertainment industry. By night, he turns his attention to genre literature.