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While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln , and became... read more
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Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Abraham (Abe) Lincoln: Lawyer, congressman, and the 16th President of the United States, also known as Honest Abe. Vampire hunter/slayer.
- Henry Sturges: Mentor of Abe Lincoln in vampire killing even though he is a fellow vampire.
- Mary Todd Lincoln: Wife of Abraham Lincoln.
- Thomas Lincoln: Abraham's father.
- Willie Lincoln: One of Abraham and Mary Lincoln's four sons who is most like his father.
- Jack Armstrong: Friend of Abe, a fellow vampire hunter. Leader of the Clary’s Grove Boys when both of them met.
- Ward Hill Lamon: Head Bodyguard of Lincoln during his run for President and for most of his first term
- Edgar Allan Poe: Author and poet, friends with Lincoln, aware of existence of vampires and fascinated by them
- Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell: Dean of medicine at Kemper College, vampire.
- Donny: Add a description of this character.
- Stephen Douglas: Longtime political opponent, who eventually becomes a staunch ally.
- Robert Todd Lincoln: Abraham and Mary Lincoln's oldest son.
- Jefferson Davis: President of the short lived Confederacy, and betrayer of Humankind.
- Thomas Crowley: Vampire who created Henry Sturges, also responsible for the deaths of all the settlers at Roanoake.
- Powell
- Sarah Bush Lincoln: Thomas Lincoln's second wife, Abraham Lincoln's step-mother. Loved by her step-children, she gave Abraham his first journal as a Christmas present.
- Ann Rutledge: Abraham Lincoln's first love.
- John Todd Stuart: Mary Todd's cousin, major in Lincoln's militia unit, close friend of Abe after their service together.
- Eddy Lincoln: Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's second son.
- Dred Scott: Slave who went to court to secure his freedom and lost.
- General George Mcclellan: A general during the Civil War, nicknamed "The Little Napoleon." A Democrat and opponent of Lincoln's in the election of 1864. He and Lincoln were not very fond of each other.
- Allen Gentry
- William H. Seward: Senator and confidante of Abraham Lincoln.
- Sumner
- Brooks
- William Seward: Fellow Vampire Hunter who worked mostly independent of Lincoln. Secretary of State during the Lincoln administration.
- Bob: Short for Robert, Abraham's Son.
- Jack Barts: The first Vampire killed by Abraham Lincoln.
- John White
- Pinkerton: Lincoln's protector.
- John Macnamar: The vampire who killed Ann Rutledge.
- Nancy Hanks Lincoln: Abe's mother. She taught Abe to read and write.
- Sarah Lincoln Gringsly: Abe's sister.
- Joshua Fry Speed: A general store clerk from A. Y. Ellis & Co., Springfield. A good friend of Abe's.
- John Wilkes Booth
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“"Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others."”
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“The day Henry made a choice............that some men are just too interesting to die.”
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“Without death...life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
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“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see. To be the playthings of tyrants. But you… you were born to fight tyranny.”
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“Simplicity! That was the oath I swore now. Family! That was my errand.”
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“If my enemies be quick, grant me speed. If they be strong, Lord, then grant me the strength to see them defeated. For mine has always been the side of righteousness. The side of justice. The side of light.”
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“His ax blade had been sharpened and resharpened. "If I swung it hard enough, I could make the air bleed."”
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There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is.
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“Without death,” he answered, “life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
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“The more precious His gift,” said Henry, “the more anxious God for its return.”
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“Living men are bound by time,” he said. “Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important; cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?
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If my enemies be quick, grant me speed. If they be strong, Lord, then grant me the strength to see them defeated. For mine has always been the side of righteousness. The side of justice. The side of light.
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“Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.”
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Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles—right and wrong—throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle.
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The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. —Abraham Lincoln, in a speech in the House of Representatives June 20th, 1848
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. —Abraham Lincoln, in an address to Congress July 4th, 1861
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Setting & Locations edit
- Springfield
- America
- Washington
- New Salem
- Mississippi
- New York City
- Illinois
- White House
- Kentucky
- Virginia
- Europe
- Indiana
- Sangamon
- Richmond
- England
- Shawnee
- Louisville
- Baltimore
- Lexington
- South Carolina: The Civil War officially began at Fort Sumter.
- Chicago
- St. Louis
- Ohio River
- Farmington
- D.c.
- United States
- Little Pigeon Creek
- Old Cumberland Trail
- New Orleans
First Sentence edit
The boy had been crouched so long that his legs had fallen asleep beneath him--but he dared not move now.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Part I - Boy
Chapter 1 - Exceptional Child
Chapter 2 - Two Stories
Chapter 3 - Henry
Chapter 4 - A Truth Too Terrible
Part II - Vampire Hunter
Chapter 5 - New Salem
Chapter 6 - Ann
Chapter 7 - The Fatal First
Chapter 8 - "Some Great Calamity"
Chapter 9 - At Last, Peace
Part III - President
Chapter 10 - A House Divided
Chapter 11 - Casualties
Chapter 12 - "Starve the Devils"
Chapter 13 - Thus Always to Tyrants
Chapter 14 - Home
Acknowledgments
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 8 of 20 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Trade Fiction (Current). (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Lucky One, and followed by Then Came You.
This is book 8 of 20 in New York Times Bestsellers - Paperback Mass-Market Fiction (Current). (authoritative list)
Preceded by A Clash of Kings, and followed by A Storm of Swords.
This book is in Classics Retold. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Seth Grahame-Smith (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: New York, USA
Publication Date: March 2, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-44656-308-6
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: New York, USA
Publication Date: March 2, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-44656-308-6
Page Count: 336
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3607.R348 A64 2010
- Dewey: 813.6
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- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (IMDb): Scheduled to be released in 2011.
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