Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, whe re a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. 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.

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. 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.

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..

Seth Grahame-Smith

作傢、劇作傢、電影製作人；曾上過一堂英國文學課。目前居住在洛杉磯。其他著作有：《色情全書》（The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies）、《蜘蛛人手冊》（The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual）、《如何成為恐怖電影裡最後的存活者》（How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills）、《總統先生對不起》（Pardon My President: Fold-and-Mail Apologies for 8 Years）。目前在撰寫《吸血鬼獵人林肯》（Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter）。