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Indiana, 1818. 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 Union 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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Indiana, 1818. 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 Union 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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Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with another mélange 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. (Mar.)
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After the commercial success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (and Ben H. Winters's lesser effort, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters), critics wondered if the monster-meets-historical-or-literary-figure conceit has worn thin. Fortunately, most reviewers found Abraham Lincoln to be an entertaining and fast-paced work of revisionist history, if gruesome and glib in parts. But others called the novel melodramatic, as well as faulted the author's (and Abe's) voices, though the diaries allow Grahame-Smith to narrate omnisciently. In the end, the novel is, perhaps, a gimmick--but an imaginative one that, if it won't "change anyone's life ... [is] still worth the short time it takes to read it" (i99.com).

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Capitalizing on the runaway success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), Grahame-Smith introduces an irreverent “biography” of Abraham Lincoln chock-full of that other horror-genre staple: vampires. Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and saved the country from disunion, but very few were privy to the fact that Honest Abe was an honest-to-goodness vampire hunter; that is, until Grahame-Smith unearthed Lincoln’s secret journal, an intimate document detailing the lifelong battle he waged against the undead. Motivated by the vampire-initiated death of his mother, 11-year-old Abe vowed to “kill every vampire in America.” True to his pledge, he spent the next 50 years honing his skills and stalking his prey. Recognizing an inextricable link between slavery and vampires, he expanded his mission to include destroying the “peculiar institution.” And the rest, as they say, is history. Grahame-Smith’s breezy narrative style makes this a quick and easy read guaranteed to tickle the funny bone. Vampires are hot, so expect high demand (except from, probably, die-hard history buffs, who may not be amused). --Margaret Flanagan

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"Seth Grahame-Smith is an excellent writer whose prose raises Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a step above others of its genre...[He] does such an excellent job blending the facts of Lincoln's life into the story that it is sometimes hard to determine fact from fiction...Suspenseful, and most readers will want to read it in one sitting."― Asbury Park Press

"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

About the Author

Seth Grahame-Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. In addition to adapting the screenplay for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth also wrote Tim Burton's film Dark Shadows. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing; First Edition (March 2, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0446563080
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446563086
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 960L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches

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Seth grew up in Connecticut reading Stephen King from a way-too-early age and forcing his friends to be in homemade horror movies. He’s written three New York Times Bestselling novels (and another one that kind’ve flopped but got good reviews). He occasionally writes or produces movies. The ones you like the most are probably THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE and IT. He's currently working on a GREEN LANTERN series for HBO Max. Please stop asking him when it comes out. He’s a partner in Katzsmith Productions, a film and television company based in Los Angeles. He has a lovely wife, two fine sons, and two comically dumb dogs. Visit him at: sethgs.com

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Karen Keyte
A Clever Idea, Brilliantly Executed (but NOT the movie)
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2012
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If you're like me, you've avoided reading Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. The idea of the novel seems positively laughable, a cheeky piece of gimickry designed to cash in on the vampire craze. I once thought the same thing and I could not have been more wrong. This is a brilliant bit of fiction, darkly thrilling and completely engrossing. Waiting so long to read it was one of my bigger book mistakes - thank goodness I read it before I saw the absolutely terrible film. The movie shares the title, but it's significantly different from the book and not in a good way, either.

Had Thomas Lincoln been a man of a more stalwart nature, his son might never have become the sixteenth President of the United States. Thomas, however, was neither ambitious nor stalwart and he did nothing to prevent his wife's death at the hands of a vampire money lender. Indeed, as Mr. Grahame-Smith indicates, it could be argued that Thomas virtually handed his wife over to the vampire who killed her. It was this, his mother's death and his father's failure to protect her, that led Abraham Lincoln to a career as a vampire hunter. And it was this singular career that propelled him into his extraordinary life in politics. Without vampires, or more correctly, without his abiding hatred of them, Mr. Lincoln might have remained a humble midwest farmer or a small town lawyer. But with the vampire menace threatening the very fabric of a blissfully ignorant nation, Abraham Lincoln rose to become the greatest President America has ever known.

There are so many ways this novel could have failed, could have been reduced to a one-line joke. It is a testament to Mr. Grahame-Smith's skill and imagination that Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter not only does not fail, it succeeds brilliantly and on every level. At it's core, this novel is a better than average biography of the President, albeit with some fangy extras thrown in. It is entirely due to the author's extensive research, inventive plot and not inconsiderable skill with the written word that - were it not for the the implausibility of vampires - it would be very difficult to separate fact from fiction in this outstanding novel. Don't make the same mistakes I did: read Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter as soon as you can, but don't waste your money on the movie.

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A Spoonful of Vampires Helps the History Go Down
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2012
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Before I start reviewing this book, I have a confession to make. I started out really biased against this book. I first heard about this title while sitting in a theater and watching the trailer for the movie that is coming out based on the book.

My initial impression was that someone must have chosen randomly drawn topics out of a (top)hat and decided to write a novel about it.

The fact that it was based around Abraham Lincoln made me feel even worse about it. Abraham Lincoln! A vampire hunter?! It just felt so irreverant and disrespectful towards such a wonderful man. A man who had done so much to contribute to our way of life in this country.

I thought, surely he must be rolling in his grave at this very moment. Needless to say, I had no intention of reading the book OR watching the movie.

Then, one day, I was talking to my local barista. (I have a Starbucks habit that keeps them in business and their stockholders happy.) He happened to mention that he had just finished the Hunger Games trilogy.

I didn't know he was a reader, so when I found out, I recommended the Molly Fyde series by Hugh Howey as a follow-up. Especially if he was looking for something somewhat similar and equally satisfying.

While he seemed happy to take my recommendation, he mentioned that he'd already started another book, which just happened to be Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

I'll admit, my first thought was one of disdain. It's not something that I'm proud of, but I find that I can be a bit of a book snob. Not openly, of course! I was polite. However, my inner nose turned up a bit at the mention.

So, I just smiled and nodded, grabbed my coffee and went on my way.

Well, the very next day, Hugh Howey (the very same author that I had been recommending to my barista friend) posted a link to Enphy's blog review of his Wool book. I happily followed the link and found that we had both been equally impressed with Howey's book.

This made me want to see what else he had read recently, and wouldn't you know it? Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was the most recent review. Not only that, but it was pretty positive.

Now I'm thinking I might have to check it out, because it's already been established that we have similar taste in books. So, I started toying around with the idea of reading it. However, I wasn't wholly convinced.

Later that week, I came back from another one of my coffee jaunts, and happened to mention to my co-worker that my barista recommended this book (as a continuation of our previous conversation.)

Now, my co-worker and I don't have a lot in common, but the one thing we DO have in common is we're both readers and tend to gravitate towards the same kind of books. In fact, it was he that referred me to both the Hunger Games trilogy last year and Ready Player One. In turn, I recommended Wool to him (which he loved.)
As I'm telling him about my follow-up conversation with my barista he says, "Oh yeah, actually, that book was pretty good."

That was it, I made up my mind right then to read it, keep an open mind, and decide for myself what I thought of it.

Almost despite myself, I found that I was captivated by the storyline. The introduction takes on the tone that this is a real accounting of events by the author. Similar to the tactic used in the Blair Witch Project.

(Do you remember that movie? The whole lead up to the premier of that movie they tried to get everybody to believe the video was real footage taken by a couple of kids in the woods and was "discovered." I think it was the first time that method was used to promote a movie.)

The history of Abraham Lincoln, and that entire time period, is so interesting on it's own, that the underlying vampire theme actually seemed superfluous at times. That being said, the author did a remarkable job weaving the two worlds (both real and fanciful) together.

In fact, the amount of research and historical knowledge was so impressive that I found myself thinking, "Wow! I didn't know that!" on more than one occassion. It inspired me to do a bit of fact checking and searching on my own; whether it was to verify something, or just because my own curiosity was spurred to learn more.

(Slight spoiler ahead; although I don't think it really counts as one, since we all know how Lincoln dies.)

For example, one of the things I didn't know was that the body guard, John F. Parker, hadn't even been at his post the night that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Amazingly, he had left his chair to find a better seat in which to watch the play.

Not only that, but he left the theater entirely during intermission and had actually gone over to the saloon next door to have a few drinks. No one knows for sure if he even returned for the second act! However, it is very clear, he was not sitting on his chair and guarding the hallway at the time Boothe went to assassinate the president.

I thought this seemed so remarkable; surely the author was embellishing the story! So, I looked it up, and read an article on the the Smithsonian's website that confirmed it was true! Can you believe it?!

Nowadays with how strict our security is surrounding the President, it seems almost preposterous that only one, drunkard guy would be in charge of Lincoln's safety. I don't know, maybe that's just illustrating my own deficiency in history.

What I thought was brilliant is how Grahame-Smith weaves our nation's history of slavery and vampires together. The outcome of this struggle would decide the fate of our country and whether or not all of us (not just slaves) would be allowed to be free, independent humans- or a country of livestock for our vampire owners.

Another thing I liked was that the vampires in this book were not the stereotypical, over-sexualized creatures that we've all come to expect. These were as varied as the humans they fed upon, but not romanticized in the usual fashion.

Overall, the story that Grahame-Smith puts together is a quick, entertaining read. In the end, I couldn't help thinking- like a spoonful of sugar- if vampires can cause people to access more history, then I look forward to another installment!

George Washington the Werewolf, perhaps?

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Balwinder
Quality was very good
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The product was received in very good quality, very happy with the service

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Another interesting book. Love his book. It’s a classic

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A very good read
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I thought this was an amazing book, I thought the author did a grand job adding vampires to the mix of Abraham Lincoln and the civil war. I found the book very funny and at some points couldn't contain myself laughing with some odd looks of my family.

I thought the story was very imaginative and original. I also thought it was very well written and keeps you drawn into the story until the very end, and it is a deffinate page turner.
I thought that this book has brought the vampire genre in a way back into the limelight after the "twilight" episode. This book has restored my faith in vampire related books.

I would defiantly reccomend this book if you are a big fan of vampires/ zombies that are or have been infuriated by all of the teenage "twilight" copies out there

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Logan Lady
Ein Präsident, der dem Biss ein Ende setzt
Reviewed in Germany on October 5, 2012
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Was sagt mir Abraham Lincoln? Er war amerikanischer Präsident, Sklavenbefreier und ist heute noch auf der 5-Dollar-Note der USA zu sehen. Jetzt, nach Lektüre des Buches, weiß ich: er war auch Vampirjäger. Und zwar ein erfolgreicher.

"Abraham Lincoln - Vampirjäger" ist mein erstes Buch von Seth Grahame- Smith und ich bin begeistert. Er verwebt sehr geschickt Wahrheit und Fiktion, lässt die Vampirjagd genau so real erscheinen wie die geschichtlichen Details.

Der Stil des Autors ist flüssig zu lesen. Durch das Verbinden von Tagebucheinträgen und Erzählungen aus Sicht einer dritten Person wirkt die Erzählung locker und zugleich spannend. Ich hatte zu Beginn Bedenken, ob Grahame- Smith seine Grundidee des Vampirjägers durchziehen kann. Doch diese Bedenken waren unbegründet. Selten habe ich eine Geschichte gelesen, deren roter Faden so konsequent durchgezogen worden ist.

Toll finde ich, dass sich der Autor auch dem Aufstieg des jungen Lincoln widmet, der einen Gegenpol zu seiner Arbeit als Jäger bildet. So ist die Geschichte ausgewogen und konnte mich bei der Stange halten.

Fazit: eine geniale Buchidee, die auch noch sehr gut umgesetzt worden ist. Eine klare Leseempfehlung.

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alberto a.
Avvertenze: spegnere il cervello prima dell'uso
Reviewed in Italy on August 31, 2012
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Divertente variazione sul tema vampiresco, che si intreccia con la carriera politica di Honest Abe, la guerra civile americana e la conseguente l'abolizione della schiavitù. Visto come romanzo fantasy è tutt'altro che memorabile, ma si lascia leggere abbastanza bene e non annoia (quasi) mai.
Mezza stella in meno per il finale, che riesce ad essere scontato e inconguente allo stesso tempo.
Preso a 89c è stato un affare, a un prezzo diverso ci penserei 2 volte (nella sezione classici ci sono millemila libri di vampiri migliori).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quality was very good

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good read

5.0 out of 5 stars Ein Präsident, der dem Biss ein Ende setzt

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A Clever Idea, Brilliantly Executed (but NOT the movie)

A Spoonful of Vampires Helps the History Go Down

Quality was very good

Love it

A very good read

Ein Präsident, der dem Biss ein Ende setzt

Avvertenze: spegnere il cervello prima dell'uso