Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

<ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><em>Indiana</ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE>, 1818</em>. 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."<br><br>"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.<br><br>Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.<br><br>When the truth becomes known to young <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Lincoln</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>, he writes in his journal, "<i>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</i>..." 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.<br><br>While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a <ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Union</ST1:PLACE> 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 <i>The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln</i>, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.<br><br>Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the <i>true</i> 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.