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|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

|author=Seth Grahame-Smith

|reviewer=John Lloyd

|buy=Maybe

|borrow=Yes

|pages=304

|publisher=Constable

|date=April 2010

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>

}}

''Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.'' That quote, on the Statue of Liberty, was probably not designed with the inclusion of vampires in mind. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sight, as the older ones can bear sunlight, with the help of darkened glasses. It might just come down to one eager young man to rid his new country of such things, on his way to something he’s a bit more known for.

Oh? What’s that you say? This is a novel, and the Lincoln diaries here are fiction? Oh. Well, let’s just say they stand as realistic – from the naïve spelling of the early years, through first loves and first rites at the hands of vampires, to a burgeoning (unheralded) career as killer. As an eye to the Americas of the time it works – we even go much further back to the failure of the original Roanoke colonists, and travel around the early states of the Union, ending up in the deep South. This, we might expect, will lead to a parody of Anne Rice, but there’s something else on our author’s mind – slavery.

I must thank the kind people at Corsair for my review copy.

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