Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2010). $21.99, 352 pages.

 Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is making mischief again, this time with a literary mashup of Abraham Lincoln and vampires. I’m a huge fan of the sixteenth president, so I wasn’t sure I would appreciate his being turned into a Yankee Van Helsing. But the book was generally well written and entertaining, even though it became a bit predictable, once you figured out who the vampires were. Also, the ending didn’t work for me at all. Reading fiction is an exercise in the willing suspension of disbelief. But there’s disbelief and there’s disbelief, and the ending was clearly the latter. Still, I’d recommend reading the book for a few nights of creatively mindless entertainment.

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