Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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3.6 • 5 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
Through the extraordinary discovery of Abraham Lincoln's previously unknown and long lost journals, Seth Grahame-Smith brings to life the Great US Emancipator's untold history - his lifelong pursuit of the immortal undead. With unparalleled daring, Seth re-writes Abraham Lincoln's biography to include this significant and gory piece of America's national heritage.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter features all the detail, colour, and readability of McCullough and Kearns Goodwin's respected book, Team of Rivals - Barack Obama's favourite book and the number one bestselling Lincoln biography - with thrilling new scenes of vampire combat. From Lincoln's frontier childhood to his assassination, this richly re-imagined history gives new meaning to the moments of an already incredible life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with another m lange of history and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln s life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies. The author s decision to reduce slavery to a mere contrivance of the vampires is unfortunate bordering on repellent, but at least it does distract the reader from the central question of why the president never saw fit to inform the public of the supernatural menace. Grahame-Smith stitches hand-to-hand vampire combat into Lincoln s documented life with competent prose that never quite manages to convince.
