Grahame smith stuc biography of abraham

2010 fiction novel

For the film based on this novel, see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a biographicalactionhorrormashup novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, released on March 2, 2010, through New York–based publishing company Grand Central Publishing.^[1]

Plot summary

The journal-style book is written as a partial "secret" diary of Abraham Lincoln, kept by the 16th President of the United States and given to the author by a vampire named Henry Sturges.

Years later, the manuscript is found in a five-and-dime store in the town of Rhinebeck, New York (a reference to Smith's wife's hometown).

Grahame smith stuc biography of abraham

At the age of eleven, Abraham Lincoln learns from his father Thomas that vampires are real. Thomas explains that a vampire killed Abraham's grandfather in 1786. Abraham's mother, Nancy, also succumbed not to milk sickness but rather to being given a "fool's dose" of vampire blood, the result of Thomas's fa