History Literature / AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter

A [[Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter movie adaptation]] was released on June 22, 2012, directed by [[Film/{{Wanted}} Timur Bekmambetov]], produced by Creator/TimBurton, and starring [[Theatre/BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson Benjamin Walker]] in the title role. Seth Graham-Smith adapted the screenplay himself.

Also, [[spoiler: the Civil War was a proxy war between vampires who wanted to rule humanity, and vampires who wanted to be left alone. [[{{Anvilicious}} Guess which side was which.]]]]

Other than the added vampires, the book stays true to the events of Lincoln's life. [[spoiler: His resurrection as a vampire after his assassination, however, is another matter.]]

A [[Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter movie adaptation]] was released on June 22, 2012, directed by [[{{Wanted}} Timur Bekmambetov]], produced by Creator/TimBurton, and starring [[Theatre/BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson Benjamin Walker]] in the title role. Seth Graham-Smith adapted the screenplay himself.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory

[[caption-width-right:261: [[AbrahamLincoln Abe Lincoln.]] [[TheyFightCrime He hunts vampires.]]]]

Young AbrahamLincoln sees his mother die when he is just a boy. He soon discovers that a vampire is responsible. Swearing [[YouKilledMyFather vengeance]], Lincoln goes on to moonlight as a [[TheHunter vampire hunter]] with the help of [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire ethical vampire]] [[TheObiWan Henry Sturges]]. Along the way, [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy a large number of historical figures from Lincoln's era]] are shown to be either [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[TheQuisling vampire sympathizers]], or [[TheHunter vampire hunters]].

* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler: WorldWarTwo, of all things. It is referred to briefly as "the Second Vampire Uprising".]]

->''I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.''

A [[Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter movie adaptation]] was released on June 22, 2012, directed by [[{{Wanted}} Timur Bekmambetov]], produced by TimBurton, and starring [[BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson Benjamin Walker]] in the title role. Seth Graham-Smith adapted the screenplay himself.

* EliteMooks: The Confederacy deploys[[spoiler: vampire infantry]].

* DeadLittleSister: Lincoln has an awful lot of these by the end of the book, starting with his mother and ending with [[spoiler:his son Willie]].

A book by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of ''PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''.

* ActuallyNotAVampire: A funny shortened version where Abe and Edgar Poe meet on the street and mistake each other for vampires (because of the way they were dressed and for recognizing another man who actually was a vampire). Of course, they straighten things out and become friends.

* AlternateHistory: Averted. The book claims to be the true history of Lincoln, and historically things go much the same way as they did in real life.

* BadDreams: Abe suffers from these frequently, at least once proving to be prophetic.

* BloodierAndGorier than its contemporary vampire stories. But a lot of the carnage is unrelated to the vampires themselves with regular old-fashioned human-on-human war and murder being large parts of the book.

* FootnoteFever: Grahame-Smith uses footnotes to explain places and terms that readers might not know, references for quotes (usually [[AsTheGoodBookSays the Bible]] or {{Shakespeare}}), or how recorded history got some actual event wrong.

* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone who had to study American history in grade school knows how the war turned out and what happened to Lincoln, and all it takes is a quick internet search to find out the fates of most of Abe's family and friends.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: [[spoiler: Henry]], though mostly by assisting mortal hunters rather than doing much hunting himself.
* HurtingHero: Abe.
* LesbianVampire: Edgar Allen Poe tells Abe a story of two lesbian vampires in East Europe (one of whom was the infamous Lady Bathory) who were into some 'kinky stuff' i.e. [[DudenotFunny torture, rape, and murder]].

* TheLostLenore: Anne.

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: Especially in one scene where a couple of amateur hunters destroy the pipe system a wealthy vampire was using to siphon blood from [[PeopleFarms living people]].
* PeopleFarms: [[spoiler: The ultimate plan of a huge alliance of American vampires]].

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Abe does this several times, usually after the death of a loved one.

* VampiresAreRich: They tend to be, yes.
* VampireHunter: Abe obviously and a couple of his friends whom he recruits to help him. Several others are mentioned in passing or play small roles.
* VampiricDraining: The old-fashioned kind, bloodsucking.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Early in his mentoring, Henry gives Abe a lecture on the disadvantages of being immortal, to explain why so many of his kind commit suicide in their third centuries. "Without death, life (becomes) meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?"

** So was [[spoiler: his grandfather]], although his death was blamed on [[spoiler: Indians]].

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: With a title like that, what did you expect?

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Early in his mentoring, Henry gives Abe a lecture on the disadvantages of being immortal, to explain why so many of his kind commit suicide in their third centuries. "Without death, life (becomes) meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?"
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Averted. Abe seems to think this at first, incredulous that one woman is a vampire (expecting it to be her husband), but quickly learns better.

* BatmanGambit: Speed [[spoiler: gives the location of the train carrying the Union Army's silver weapons to the vampires, claiming he's trying to get back at Abe for tearing the country apart over slavery. The vampires then flock, en masse, to the train, which is shipping bricks, allowing him and his friends to lay waste to Adam and his cronies. The silver was on a different train.]] (This happens in the movie, not the book. Silver is not mentioned anywhere in the book, and neither is Adam.)

* BatmanGambit: Speed [[spoiler: gives the location of the train carrying the Union Army's silver weapons to the vampires, claiming he's trying to get back at Abe for tearing the country apart over slavery. The vampires then flock, en masse, to the train, which is shipping bricks, allowing him and his friends to lay waste to Adam and his cronies. The silver was on a different train.]]

* WorldOfBadass: There is not a single character in this film who isn't a badass.

[[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118025081 A movie adaptation]] will be released on June 22, directed by [[{{Wanted}} Timur Bekmambetov]], produced by TimBurton, and starring [[BloodyBloodyAndrewJackson Benjamin Walker]] in the title role. Seth Graham-Smith adapted the screenplay himself.

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