: The human population is nearly extinct, leading to a critical blood shortage. Without blood, vampires devolve into "subsiders"—mindless, bat-like monsters. Key Characters :
: A former vampire who accidentally discovered a cure for vampirism. Daybreakers
: Critics and scholars often analyze the film as an economic metaphor for dwindling non-renewable resources and the consequences of predatory capitalism. 2. The Novel: " The Daybreakers " (1960) : The human population is nearly extinct, leading
: A sympathetic vampire hematologist searching for a synthetic blood substitute . : Critics and scholars often analyze the film
: The story follows brothers Tyrel and Orrin Sackett as they leave Tennessee in 1867 to find a new life in the American West .
: Tyrel Sackett is the primary protagonist, an illiterate but principled young man who becomes a skilled gunfighter out of necessity.
This Western novel by Louis L'Amour is the first chronological entry in the famous Sackett family saga .