
Abraham Lincoln
Vampire Hunter
Paperback
Other Editions of This Title:
Digital Audiobook (3/1/2010)
Paperback (4/19/2011)
Hardcover, Large Print, Large Print (6/1/2010)
Compact Disc (3/1/2010)
Paperback (4/1/2011)
Paperback (2/1/2011)
Hardcover (3/2/2010)
CD-Audio (4/19/2011)
Mass Market (4/1/2012)
CD-Audio (4/3/2012)
Description
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
Praise For Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter…
"Evocative...Grahame-Smith [is] a lively, fluent writer with a sharp sense of tone and pace."—TIME
"Thanks to P&P&Z, a delicious mutant book craze was born. But then opportunists infested the territory...It's nice to see plucky Grahame-Smith retake his turf."—Entertainment Weekly
"Not just the Lincoln biography we've all been waiting for. It's also the funniest, most action-packed and weirdly well-researched account of the Civil War you'll probably read in a long time. Grahame-Smith could be poised to become the Howard Zinn of vampire-related alterna-history."—Vanity Fair
"Grahame-Smith does an excellent job of capturing the spirit of this style of story-telling, mixing historically accurate anecdotes with entries from Lincoln's fictional secret journal, weaving the vampire elements into the story in a manner that's quite believable."—Wired
Grand Central Publishing, 9781455510177, 384pp.
Publication Date: April 3, 2012