So I just finished reading the book, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” by Seth Grahame-Smith.

This book is actually a biography of Abraham Lincoln, except there’s a little mix of vampire fiction thrown in. While this is a fictional book, there’s still a lot of Non-fiction real life history into it, too. The book begins from Abe’s childhood all the way up to his assassination. The book surprisingly has everything about Abe’s history. It’s all there. His marriages to Anne Rutledge and Mary Todd is there. Everything about his political career. The Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 1864 re-election, the assassination (which he was murdered by John Wilkes Booth), etc. Yep, the book pretty much covers Lincoln’s entire history.

As for the fictional material, the book focus’s on Abe being a vampire hunter. Abe has a huge hatred for vampires and vows to kill every one of them. The stories are told in journal form by a vampire named, Henry Sturges, who is the only “fictional” character in the book. In the book, it wants to make Abe look like a tough guy hunting down vampires with an axe. The axe was Abe’s only weapon to kill vampires as you see on the cover of the book above. The book is of course, violent and a little gory.

I thought the author of this novel did an amazing job mixing in fiction and non-fiction all in the same book. That had to be very difficult to do with a lot of research. The book is pretty twisted and sick. It’s also silly and goofy. It made you feel like watching the History Channel and a Evil Dead movie at the same time.

Do you know what’s even more funny, that since I finished this book today, I just realized that today is Abe’s Anniversary death. This is one of the best horror novels, I’ve read in a long time. So I shall be looking forward to “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” film when it hits theaters. This is an entertaining read. If you like reading history, politics, and horror, this is the book for you.

Kev