Lincoln Goes Buffy!

Four score and seven years ago, Abe Lincoln kicked serious undead ass

Here is something you didn’t know about Abraham Lincoln: He is the only president to ever hold a patent, which was given for a contraption he designed to lift riverboats over sandbars.

Here’s something else you didn’t know about Abraham Lincoln: He slaughtered vampires.

The first tidbit was gleaned from a history book, the latter from today’s release of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the newest book from Seth Grahame-Smith, aka the guy who kicked off the mini-trend of mixing horror monsters and historical properties with his book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

The gist of Grahame-Smith’s new work: After Lincoln’s mother is killed by vampires, the future 16th president swears vengeance and becomes the world’s most gifted vampire hunter, secretly slaying the undead with an ax he keeps conveniently hidden under his long black coat. The tale is told through Lincoln’s secret diaries, the prose of which will sound familiar to fans of Civil War literature. Except, you know, for the parts that involve vampires.

A movie adaptation is obviously inevitable. (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is set to star Natalie Portman.) But for those who can’t wait to see Abe Lincoln as a slayer, the publisher has put together a surprisingly decent book trailer. Click here to watch Lincoln beat a vamp like it’s the Confederacy….

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