Seth Grahame-Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. In addition to adapting the screenplay for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth also wrote Tim Burton's film Dark Shadows. He lives in Los Angeles.
Evocative...Grahame-Smith [is] a lively, fluent writer with a sharp
sense of tone and pace.--TIME
Grahame-Smith does an excellent job of capturing the spirit of this
style of story-telling, mixing historically accurate anecdotes with
entries from Lincoln's fictional secret journal, weaving the
vampire elements into the story in a manner that's quite
believable.--Wired
Not just the Lincoln biography we've all been waiting for. It's
also the funniest, most action-packed and weirdly well-researched
account of the Civil War you'll probably read in a long time.
Grahame-Smith could be poised to become the Howard Zinn of
vampire-related alterna-history.--Vanity Fair
Seth Grahame-Smith is an excellent writer whose prose raises
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a step above others of its
genre...[He] does such an excellent job blending the facts of
Lincoln's life into the story that it is sometimes hard to
determine fact from fiction...Suspenseful, and most readers will
want to read it in one sitting.-- Asbury Park Press
Thanks to P&P&Z, a delicious mutant book craze was
born. But then opportunists infested the territory...It's nice to
see plucky Grahame-Smith retake his turf.--Entertainment Weekly
Given the zany conceit of Grahame-Smith's latest novel-that a young Abraham Lincoln vowed to become a vampire slayer upon learning that his mother died after being tainted with vampire blood, and then made good on that promise-performing the story as if it were completely unremarkable is essential to the listener's suspension of disbelief. And in this audio edition, narrator Scott Holst does just that, reading with measured delivery and a calm demeanor. This decision-and his fine performance-accomplishes more than over-the-top histrionics would in delving the listener into this remarkable alternate history, in which the blood-sucking undead play a part in the Civil War (on the side of the South, supernaturally) and the fatal events in Ford's Theater. Holst aligns his pace with the mood of the text, slowing down at vital moments, e.g., when good vampire Henry Sturges informs a young Lincoln that he was born to "free men from the tyranny of vampires." This audiobook will serve as a nice contrast to the big-screen adaptation of the book, which, inevitably, substitutes explicit gore for the listener's imagination. A Grand Central paperback. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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