Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

by Seth Grahame-Smith

Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"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.

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Seth Grahame-Smith claims that Abraham Lincoln was a vampire hunter. If you first hear this it sounds absolutely absurd.


But the stories is written very realistic and by interweaving real historical events with vampire slaughtering it even starts to become sort of real. Of course I am aware that no such things as vampires exist, but the author creates and atmosphere that actually make you believe that all this could have happened.

I've never been a big fan of vampires, especially since this whole twilight-sparkeling-in-the-sun-stuff turned up I turned my back on this topic.
Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter was a great comeback.
Seth Grahame-Smith wrote this book magnificently and I'm really looking forward to the movie.

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