I can never tell if I'm just more in to horror or what because I can't remember the last time I saw a stereotype of a vampire before the new Interview.

I enjoyed some of the graphic novel style writing back when it was new. But, the book market saturated quickly and no one knew how to create an ending for their series.

I’m tired of it and won’t read it either. I think I read my last vampire book in 2009? ish and it was a did not finish. I’m also sick to death of fey. Sultry fairy crap is in every fantasy novel recommendation. These genre hooks need to be parsed out better, so the sultry paranormal crap stays in a separate lane. I’m sick of pointy ears. Surely people have ideas that expand beyond fey crap and pointy ears.

I was looking for a book involving rogues or assassins. I thought I found one. Instead, the lead turns out to be fey.

Vampires and fey both are way overdone.

Just to put different stories out.

In Trinity blood is post post apocalypse. some vampires were engineers building advance tech rebuilding what was lost. Even had ways to blanket the skies with anti UV clouds letting in sunlight without burning up. Plus didnt have the woe is me mentality. Vampires couldn't even eat ppl in the new terran empire cause they are all property of their vampire empress.

Day breakers was pretty dumb scifi but vampires were the main population and needed to resolve the blood issue with dwindling good source.

Penny dreadful vampires are from ancient times but story set in england 1800s lol. Loved the show but ending was rushed due to cancelation.

There are also other stories that deviate/are based on vampires tropes in anime. like Ragna crimson where the "dragons" are effectively vampire covens with queens and gods that hunt a kingdom to extinction because someone's Cafe shutdown there.

Point is there is plenty of ways vampire stories evolved over time in media. its just popular western media that is letting us down.

Supernatural started doing that later in the seasons and annoyed the fuck out of me. I 100% agree.

Why not South American vampires?

Castlevania Nocturne

Brittany Spears era vampire sporting a whale tail and a white tank top could help resolve this.

House of Ashes started out in Mesopotamia, and honestly I wish the entire game was set in that era rather than moving to the Iraq War.

Watching an ancient civilization try to stand against a massive horde of space vampires would've been incredible. And I daresay that could lend itself to your criticism of the very Euro-centric nature of most vampires stories.

Lost boys is a classic

I understand and mostly agree. But especially in shorter stories or short subplots I think they can still be interesting and importantly don't need much introduction.

I also think a vampire can be made more interesting by having their vampirism be more nuanced and combined with other character traits.

As others have said, Blindsight by Peter Watts is 100% orthogonal to all the vampire tropes you mention.

Give this (very) satiric pharma / biotech "powerpoint" presentation about his vampires a try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOUaJW05bU&t=1s

I like vampire stories that use them to explore addiction dynamics. The one that stood out to me was the "Joe Pitt Casebooks" - very gritty, set in Manhattan with not a victorian accent in sight. Standouts for me included a monastic sect that spend their time fasting and meditating in the belief they can train away their need for blood, and sunlight not burning but causing essentially instant cancerous tumor growth. Also, the "monsters living among us" is more of the Epstein variety than every single vampire being a literal monster.

There is emo but it's more of a "I can't stop fucking up my life" kind of emo than "woe is me sob sob cry" emo.

I suspect this won't be enough of a departure from what you complain about to be palatable.

I prefer vampires over zombies.

Zombies are really one-trick ponies. Their stories are redundant whereas with vampires, you could go anywhere with them.

The best part of the movie "Interview of a Vampire" was Lestat calling out what a bitch Louis is at the end.

https://youtu.be/1LyG0S_arq8

Seriously. Just empty a bag of rice on the ground in front of a vampire and then tell me how cool and terrifying it is.

Do it inside of your door without inviting it in for extra measure, so the damn thing has to try to count the grains without coming in, and It'll be stuck there until the sun comes out and it burns to ash.

I like Vampires because they're hot, not because they're a monster. I think that's why you might not like most vampire media, because it's catering to a public that finds them hot and appealing.

Dragons.

And magic.

Biggest fukn deus ex machina bullshit ever.

If you're into dragons and magic then I assume you're intellectually and or emotionally immature. They're cheap gimmicks for children.