I just got around to reading Jenny Turner's humorous self-conscious reflection on Twilight. What happened all of a sudden to vampire protagonists who are bitter and selfish anti-heroes? In other words those who have style, and nothing like their ersatz contemporary brethren?
The archetypal vampire I had in mind is Kain in the first Blood Omen.
"And so I left, cold of heart and soul. Forced to the road and the long, bitter night."
http://www.nosgoth.net/Blood_Omen/dialogue/page1.htm
