American Vampire

American Vampire reinvents vampire mythology as a story about the country itself. Scott Snyder's framing story follows Pearl Jones, a naive 1920s Hollywood extra whose brutal transformation into a vampire pits her against a cabal of aristocratic, old-world vampires who see the emerging "American" strain — faster, sun-tolerant, and vulgar — as an abomination.

Stephen King contributes the interwoven origin story of Skinner Sweet, an outlaw and train robber whose violent death in the Old West becomes the birth of that new breed, tying frontier myth directly to the modern horror story Snyder is telling.