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Abraham Lincoln by Seth Grahame-Smith6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() He becomes obsessed with vampires and his wife even leaves him but at the end of two years, he has this amazing story that finally tells the truth about Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter.Īnd then… that's all we hear about him. No matter what the motivation, this work takes over Grahame-Smith's life. I see you writing here from time to time " (Introduction.28). Maybe Henry chooses this narrator because Henry sees something of Abe in him as Henry tells Seth, "You obviously have an appreciation for books. ![]() Working man Abe has much less time to hunt vampires (5.51), and when he gets married, he retires altogether (7.167).īut his dreams fall right onto Seth's doorstep when Henry Sturges reveals to him that vampires are real and gives him Lincoln's secret journals. ![]() In a way, he reminds us of Abe when Abe is working at a store and gets married to Mary Todd. This guy works at an old-fashioned store in Rhinebeck, NY (an old-fashioned town), and though he likes books and writing, his regular life has gotten in the way of his dreams: "I stopped caring about my writing, and started caring about everything else: The kids. We're talking about the character who shows up in the introduction. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. While the book is obviously a spoof of gothic horror novels, it also has a surprising respect for the biography of Lincoln. ![]() We have him in quotation marks because we're not talking about the real dude. "Seth Grahame-Smith" is a name you have to say in quotation marks. ![]()
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