American Vampire

Set in the American West of the 1800s, this five-issue Urban Comics series from 2020–2021 follows a vampire hunter on a bloody trail through a frontier full of both human and supernatural threats. The story is most strongly associated with writer Scott Snyder, whose work on the original American Vampire saga brought a gritty, revisionist energy to the horror-Western genre. It matters as a focused, standalone tale that expands the mythos without requiring deep prior knowledge, offering a self-contained entry point into Snyder's bleak, compelling vampire lore.