Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and saved the country from disunion, but very few were privy to the... (more)
Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and saved the country from disunion, but very few were privy to the fact that Honest Abe was an honest-to-goodness vampire hunter; that is, until Grahame-Smith unearthed Lincoln¿s secret journal, an intimate document detailing the lifelong battle he waged against the undead. Motivated by the vampire-initiated death of his mother, 11-year-old Abe vowed to ¿kill every vampire in America.¿ True to his pledge, he spent the next 50 years honing his skills and stalking his prey. Recognizing an inextricable link between slavery and vampires, he expanded his mission to include destroying the ¿peculiar institution.¿ And the rest, as they say, is history. (less)