History Literature / AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter

* HurtingHero: Abe.

* AnAxeToGrind: Abe's weapon of choice is a woodcutter's axe.

[[caption-width-right:261: [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Abe Lincoln.]] [[TheyFightCrime He hunts vampires.]]]]

* NiceHat: The iconic stovepipe hat.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever:
** Early in his mentoring, Henry gives Abe a lecture on the disadvantages of being immortal, to explain why so many of his kind commit suicide in their third centuries. "Without death, life (becomes) meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?"

A book by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''.

* HistoricalFantasy

* BadassBeard: He is Lincoln, after all.

* BadDreams: Abe suffers from these frequently, at least once proving to be prophetic.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The FramingDevice involves Grahame-Smith receiving Lincoln's long-lost journals.

* VampiresAreRich: They tend to be, yes.

** TruthInTelevision: Lincoln was known for melancholy and dreaming of dire portents. He wrote in a note to his wife,
-->"Think you better put 'Tad's' pistol away. I had an ugly dream about him."
* ArcWords: "Judge us not equally."

* AxCrazy: Averted. Lincoln's RoaringRampageOfRevenge is [[TranquilFury cool, calm and methodical,]] and also kept secret from anyone but his closest friends.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Abe, three separate times. [[ForegoneConclusion He doesn't go through with it.]]]]

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Abe's ax always finds the target with the sharp end.
** [[spoiler: Unless that target is Henry.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Early in his mentoring, Henry gives Abe a lecture on the disadvantages of being immortal, to explain why so many of his kind commit suicide in their third centuries. "Without death, life (becomes) meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?"

Other than the added vampires, the book stays true to the events of Lincoln's life. [[spoiler:His resurrection as a vampire after his assassination, however, is another matter.]]

Young UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln sees his mother die when he is just a boy. He soon discovers that a vampire is responsible. Swearing [[YouKilledMyFather vengeance]], Lincoln goes on to moonlight as a [[TheHunter vampire hunter]] with the help of [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire ethical vampire]] Henry Sturges. Along the way, [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy a large number of historical figures from Lincoln's era]] are shown to be either [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[TheQuisling vampire sympathizers]], or [[TheHunter vampire hunters]].

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The book lives on this trope. Lincoln was a vampire hunter, as was [[spoiler:William Seward]], [[spoiler:EdgarAllanPoe]] was a vampire fanboy, the [[spoiler:Roanoke colony]] was killed off by its vampiric doctor, and [[spoiler:John Wilkes Booth]] was, you guessed it, a vampire.

Young UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln sees his mother die when he is just a boy. He soon discovers that a vampire is responsible. Swearing [[YouKilledMyFather vengeance]], Lincoln goes on to moonlight as a [[TheHunter vampire hunter]] with the help of [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire ethical vampire]] [[TheObiWan Henry Sturges]]. Along the way, [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy a large number of historical figures from Lincoln's era]] are shown to be either [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[TheQuisling vampire sympathizers]], or [[TheHunter vampire hunters]].

* TheObiWan: Henry. Albeit the version who [[spoiler: doesn't die.]]

* NoodleIncident: [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, of all things. It is referred to briefly as "the Second Vampire Uprising".]]

* AxCrazy: Averted. Lincoln's RoaringRampageOfRevenge is cool, calm and methodical, and also kept secret from anyone but his closest friends.

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' speak callously about any of Abe's lost loved ones. [[CaptainObvious Being a vampire is also a bad idea.]]

* LesbianVampire: Edgar Allen Poe tells Abe a story of two lesbian vampires in East Europe (one of whom was the infamous Lady Bathory) who were into some 'kinky stuff' i.e. [[DudenotFunny torture, rape, and murder]].

** Joshua Speed outlived Abraham Lincoln. By decades.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Abraham Lincoln is [[HesJustHiding a vampire.]]]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The book lives on this trope. Lincoln was a vampire hunter, [[spoiler: EdgarAllanPoe]] was a vampire fanboy, the [[spoiler: Roanoke colony]] was killed off by its vampiric doctor, and [[spoiler: John Wilkes Booth]] was, you guessed it, a vampire.

Other than the added vampires, the book stays true to the events of Lincoln's life. His resurrection as a vampire after his assassination, however, is another matter.