He starts the series in Hollywood during the mid-1920s, on the cusp of the sea change of switching from silent movies to talkies, jumps to the construction of Las Vegas, delves into World War II and then into two 1950s tales. Snyder additionally defies convention by jumping forward roughly a decade for each new story arc. He was a vicious bank robber in the 1880s before becoming a vampire, and his new immortality hardly softened his personality, although, as we discover, there are worse than him. Some struggle with what they’ve become, while others, like Sweet, revel in it. Beyond Sweet, Snyder introduces his own vampire mythology, presenting different forms of vampire, each with strengths and limitations, and underlines that there are as many personality types among vampires as there are among humans. In Skinner Sweet he definitively created a terrifying, amoral sociopath, unashamed of what he is, and unconcerned with what he has to do to survive. Snyder wanted to restore visceral vampire fiction, dealing with savage creatures of the night cursed by a bloodlust in preference to the posing romantics that had perpetuated the genre for so long.
Despite winning awards, American Vampire is a series that never quite matched the hype generated by its enthusiastic fans, among whom Stephen King can be numbered, persuaded to contribute on the basis of Scott Snyder’s initial premise.
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