One of the most unique authors I’ve encountered of late is Seth Grahame-Smith. While I’m not about to go out and buy custom mugs with his name on them just yet, you have to admire his creativity.
His first novel caught my eye but never really compelled me to buy; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic – he credits her as co-author – with a strong zombie-fighting subplot mixed in by Grahame-Smith. It was an interesting concept but, not being an Austen fan, it was a bit lose on me.
His latest is Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter, and looks far more promising. Disguising literary classics and history lessons as occult fad fiction is a unique take, and hopefully Grahame-Smith can get a couple more out before others catch on and start flooding the market with copycat fiction of lesser quality.
The concept of making Lincoln a vampire hunter is both hilarious and a cagey strategy to make the 1860s US president relevant to the Twilight-era of teenagers. Well done, sir.
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