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Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods thatsurround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincolnkneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken withsomething the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatalaffliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in hisjournal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study anddevotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And thismastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendaryheight, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path ofvengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

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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作者简介

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

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"Seth Grahame-Smith is an excellent writer whose prose raisesAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a step above others of itsgenre...[He] does such an excellent job blending the facts ofLincoln's life into the story that it is sometimes hard todetermine fact from fiction...Suspenseful, and most readers willwant to read it in one sitting." ( Asbury ParkPress)

"Evocative...Grahame-Smith [is] a lively, fluent writer with asharp sense of tone and pace." (TIME)

"Thanks to P P Z, a delicious mutant book craze wasborn. But then opportunists infested the territory...It's nice tosee plucky Grahame-Smith retake his turf." (EntertainmentWeekly)

"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)

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