I also never really knew much about him other than he was a former U.S President. I've read about how Lincoln died many times now, from different sources, but I never understood why it happened. Even though I'm vastly interested in history, reading huge textbooks or listening to commentaries still makes me sleepy. For how would one finish it?"Ībraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is an impeccable example of how history can be made interesting with strategy. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat death," he answered, "life is meaningless. ![]() I am convinced they brought back ol' Honest Abe to read his audiobook. Well-read with great diction and enunciation. Well done and I look forward to reading more of his novels! I'm convinced he's a very clever history teacher. So, despite the axes flying, I was learning about history and Lincoln's life. Grahame-Smith intersperses real-world events with his fictionalized account of Lincoln. slavery) - but this book does it in a tolerable way. While I normally feel a fictionalized accounts make light of serious topics (i.e. As expected, plenty of heads rolled and bodies dismembered - thoroughly enjoyable! Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, her death was due to a vengeful vampire.Ībraham does what any sensible child would've done - pledged himself wholly and completely to eradicating the entire world of vampires. 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.Īllow me to a little-known history book, starring Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.Ībraham Lincoln was a little more than a child when his mother passed due to a mysterious illness. 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. 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. ![]() 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. I shall become a master of mind and body. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, " henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. "My baby boy." she whispers before dying. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." 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.
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