Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, in which a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers contact ‘Milk Sickness.’

‘My baby youngster…’ she whispers before dying.

Only afterwards will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was in fact the work of a vampire.

When the reality becomes known to young Lincoln, he creates in his journal, ‘henceforth my life about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: Vampire Hunter shall be among rigorous research and devotion. I will become a expert of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose…’ Gifted with his renowned height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets from a route of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for keeping a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That’s, until Seth Grahame-Smith discovered THE TRICK Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in a lot more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his help and writing in the grand biographical design of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth provides reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while exposing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the beginning, growth, and near-death of our nation. NEW! Watch Honest Abe in action here: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors_ABLVH.aspx