Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - A Brief Review
My current favorite subject lately has been 19th-century crime as I had recently acquired four volumes of Rick Geary 's "Victorian Murder" series and finished The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America awhile back. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter fit in well with my obsession. I recall seeing the trailer for the movie adaptation and it looked like some ridiculous fun to have Honest Abe portrayed as a kung-fu version of van Helsing. Alas, the movie came and went before I got a chance to see it but I found the book at Goodwill for a buck and figured what the heck. The writing moves along at a good pace, combining historical fact with the fiction, quoting from Lincoln's actual writings as well as fictionalized "secret" diary entries. It does rely a little too much on the new-Hollywood idea of the vampire hunter in a long, black coat filled with gadgets but that's just part of the fun. There are actual...