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Peter Watts' science fiction novels Blindsight and Echopraxia include "vampires" that co-evolved with humans. The vampires' aversion to crosses is described as their brains "crashing" when visually processing right angles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel)

His is an interesting take on vampire lore in sci-fi. I remember they also have drugs to mitigate this condition, and allow them to live in cities: the anti-euclidean, or auntie-e.

I still don't understand what vamps drew to crash humans.

Homo sapiens whedonum

https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm

Levar Burton Reads has an episode with another David Langford short story featuring BLITs: https://art19.com/shows/levar-burton-reads/episodes/2a76c395...

I'm positive I've recognised some items from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky poem.

And Snow Crash!

Thanks for posting this. I'd been trying to remember this short story's name for a while now, and seeing this image immediately put me in mind of the "basilisk"!