Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a
one-room cabin, where 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 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.
