Vampire henry sturges returns in the highly anticipated sequel to abraham lincoln. Vampire hunter march 26, 2010 tim burton bought the film rights largely on the strength of publisher grand central s inhouse trailer for the new book from seth grahamesmith, the man who gave us pride and prejudice and zombies. Benjamin walker stars as the title character with supporting roles by dominic cooper, anthony mackie, mary elizabeth winstead, rufus. Vampire hunter kindle edition by grahamesmith, seth. Lincoln is killed on april 14, 1865 and in modern times, henry is still recruiting vampire hunters. Its a skillful and clever mixture of fact and fiction that makes for a fascinating reading experience. As a boy abe lincoln lost his beloved mother to illness. The last american vampire in reconstructionera america, vampire henry sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend abraham lincoln s shocking death. Some 10 years later, he unsuccessfully tries to eliminate barts but in the process makes the acquaintance of henry sturgess who teaches him how to fight and what is required to kill a vampire. Grahamsmiths publisher sent a galley copy of the book due for release on.
Vampire hunter by seth grahamesmith spans abraham lincolns life time. Luckily for him, seth grahamesmith mostly mashesup things that are out of, so he wont get sued like so many musical mashup artists. Seth grahamesmiths bestselling account of the true secret vampire slaying life of president lincoln. The book trailer featuring michae l krebs as abraham lincoln want more. Graham smiths publisher sent a galley copy of the book due for release on.
We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than. Lincoln does, on occasion, get some assistance in his vampire battles but the story primarily deals with him and his vampire friend, henry. Seth grahamesmith ruins his own characters with the script. May 10, 2011 the vampire hunter film, like the book, follows lincoln from his boyhood on the frontier through his assassination by john wilkes booth and because this is a vampire story beyond. Seth grahamesmith is the new york times bestselling author of abraham lincoln. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Later he learns her sickness was not caused by the perils of frontier life, but by. The character of henry is more pardon the expression fleshed out in the book and his origin is a lot more interesting. Vampire hunter is a film adaptation of the book of the same name. Vampire hunter march 2, 2010 the twominute microepic was written and directed by bodega creative director adam reid, and features a deadon likeness of abraham lincoln michael krebs in his white house office circa 1864 as he confronts. The serious tone and silly premise may turn off some people, but the serious tone actually works to the films advantage and actually made the movie more fun. Abraham lincoln, vampire hunter features all the detail, colour, and readability of mccullough and kearns goodwins respected book, team of rivals barack obamas favourite book and the number one. Also, the pacing is awful and the character development suffers from that. The author so skillfully weaves historical records, with his fictional narrative, that it can be difficult to pick out which is which.
Online shopping from a great selection at books store. The rest of the book is the story of those journals and some interviews and probably some notes cribbed from wikipedia. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. The book starts with a frame story in which henry sturges gives seth grahamesmith the lincoln journals. He does such an excellent job blending the facts of lincolns life into the story that it is sometimes hard to determine fact from fiction. This free study guide is stuffed with the juicy details and. Vampire hunter the boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. The slightly longer version starts in 2010, when seth grahamesmith the character, not the author gets the secret journals of abraham lincoln from the vampire henry sturges.
Vampire hunter paperback illustrated, 19 april 2011 customers who bought this item also bought product description product details. This free study guide is stuffed with the juicy details and important facts you need to know. Abraham lincoln s secret journal on vampire hunting casts new light on many of the seminal events in american history and adds immeasurable complexity to a man already thought to be unusually complex introduction. Oh, and its also astonishing, heartbreaking, and revolutionary.
Vampire hunter series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. He makes all of his characters a bit more stupid in the film than in the book. The book seriously posits history, if abraham lincoln had been a vampire hunter. After all, the movie, based on a 2010 book of the same title, decides that for lincoln saving the union wasnt good. Vampire hunter is a 2012 american dark fantasy action horror film directed by timur bekmambetov, based on the 2010 mashup novel of the same name. Vampire hunter is exactly what you would expect from the title. Vampire hunter author sued over appropriated novel. The title sounds more like a great saturday night live sketch than a compelling.
Jan 01, 2010 abraham lincoln declares war on vampires that have moved from europe to the us where they presume that they will be safer and more accepted. We created a great video trailer, which was widely viewed and shared, and built an active facebook community around book. The novels author, seth grahamesmith, wrote the screenplay and served as an executive producer. A skunkworks is a report book hunter lincoln abraham vampire sportsperson from buga, colombia, and there is a. Vampire hunter a sweeping, alternate history of twentiethcentury america by new york times bestselling author seth grahamesmith. Guys, i have a personal library of over a hundred books. An historians take on abraham lincoln as vampire hunter. Lincoln and his loyal hunters lure adam and many of his vampire allies into a trap and manage to kill them, saving the union at gettysburg by delivering silver to finish the confederate vampires. Nancy hanks lincoln died when abraham lincoln was 9. Mar 20, 2010 abraham lincoln reborn as a vamp ire slayer suppose that, in 19thcentury america, the forces of good and evil battled for the soul of the new republic what we now know as the civil war.
Vampire hunter was a much better book than i thought it would be. Pr newswire bodega produces epic book trailer for abraham lincoln. In addition to adapting the screenplay for abraham lincoln. Suspenseful, and most readers will want to read it in one sitting. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a oneroom cabin, where a nineyearold abraham lincoln kneels at his suffering mothers. It is quite possibly the strangest premise of a book written in the past decade.
Vampire hunter takes our most illustrious of presidents and adds more than a bit of buffy to his resume. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins. Take, for example, seth grahamesmiths new novel, abraham lincoln vampire hunter. Find out what happens in our part 1, chapter 1 summary for abraham lincoln. Vampires are for killing, not kissing in abraham lincoln. Jun 22, 2012 storyline at the age of 9, abraham lincoln witnesses his mother being killed by a vampire, jack barts. Through the extraordinary discovery of abraham lincolns previously unknown and long lost journals, seth grahamesmith brings to life the great us emancipators untold history his lifelong pursuit of the immortal undead. A ridiculous, overthetop, and fun actionhorror flick. And his next book, unholy night, takes the three wise men from the bible and asks, what if they were wise monsters instead of wise men. For over 250 years, between 1607 and 1865, vampires thrived in the shadows of america. Allow me to a littleknown history book, starring abraham lincoln.
Abraham lincoln, vampire hunter is exactly what it promises on the title a retelling of the life of the sixteenth president of the united states, with the added caveat that the great orator and wartime president was also an accomplished dispatcher of the undead. Grahame is adept enough to include all that is well known about our 16th president, but fills in the gaps with tales of his private life as a dispatcher of undead. Seth grahamesmith is an excellent writer whose prose raises abraham lincoln. The author makes the issue of slavery even more disgusting, if thats possible, and cleverly sets the stage for the spark of the civil war. Vampire hunter, seth also wrote tim burtons film dark shadows.
Abraham lincoln, 16th president of the united states, devoted. Then again, a bigscreen version of seth grahamesmith. Jun 26, 2012 no one should expect historical accuracy out of abraham lincoln. It recounts, via a narrator who has his secret diary, the 16th presidents sidegig as a vampire slayer at a time when vampires were stealthily gaining political power and acquiring slaves for homicidal purposes. Vampire hunter is such a smashing title its too bad someone had to spoil things by making a movie to go with it. Hatchette book group claims seth grahamesmiths submitted.
Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a oneroom cabin, where a nineyearold abraham lincoln kneels at. Vampire hunter and pride and prejudice and zombies. Abraham lincoln, vampire hunter 2011 edition open library. In reality, lincoln did witness the death of his motherbut it wasnt vampires that killed her. Differences between the book and film abraham lincoln. We tend to think of john wilkes booth as a lone gunman, but he actually had a whole team of. This book mashes together history and vampire horror, but were there ever any points where you thought the two types of book didnt go together. Abraham lincoln declares war on vampires that have moved from europe to the us where they presume that they will be safer and more accepted. So the book follows honest abe and his friend henry the wealthy,mysterious patron and front man for the the hidden society called, the union.
The book is built on the premise that lincoln kept a series of secret journals over his lifetime chronicling his lifelong battle against the dark forces of vampires. The author so skillfully weaves historical records, with his fictional narrative. Videos, news, gossip, native ads, and organizational culture organizational change process, an intervention depends on how the combined, or cooperative, efforts of the motion of a sort of restriction s on professional training, women. Vampire hunter english, paperback, grahamesmith seth language. Vampire hunter as its meant to be heard, narrated by scott holst.
With unparalleled daring, seth rewrites abraham lincoln s biography to include this significant and gory piece of americas national heritage. From the new york times bestselling author of pride and prejudice and zombies comes the true history of our sixteenth president seth grahamesmiths abraha. Abraham lincoln, vampire hunter is a biographical action horror mashup novel by seth grahamesmith, released on march 2, 2010, through new yorkbased publishing company grand central publishing. No vampire hunter would be complete without his natural enemy, the vampire hunter hunter. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, her death was due to a vengeful vampire. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading abraham lincoln.
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