ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH, ALLEN AND UNWIN, $24.99.
The master of the literary mash-up is back. It was Seth Grahame-Smith who launched the conga line of Celebs-meet-Monster books with his chart-topping Pride and Prejudice And Zombies, in which the undead wreak havoc on Jane Austen’s muslin, mannered world.
This time it’s Honest Abe, 16th president of the United States, who’s out for revenge after vampires kill his mother, then lover, then young son. Turns out they even started the Civil War. True, the history books give a different version, but here we have the authority of Lincoln’s “secret diaries”, in which all is explained. That famous Lincoln beard? Grown to conceal the scar of a near-fatal vampire attack. That long black coat? Hiding place for his trusty slaying axe. The joke may be wearing thin now, but Grahame-Smith is a skilled writer, both the first and best of the breed.
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