Skinnerbox: Here’s a really clever way to promote a book. Like the writer below, however, I wish the filmmakers had spent some of their budget on better makeup for the villain – or maybe actually hire an actor with a mustache? Regardless, I’m jazzed about the book. How about you?


I’m not generally a fan of promotional trailers for comics and books — most rely on dull montages and even worse music — but this new spot for Seth Grahame-Smith’s upcoming novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is incredibly well done. Well, if you can ignore the really obvious wig and fake mustache on whom I presume is vampire-John Wilkes-Booth.

The novel, Grahame-Smith’s follow-up to the bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, depicts Lincoln as the savior of the Union and lifelong enemy of the undead. The author has a couple of comic-book connections: He was among the genre novelists who contributed to the latest Marvel Zombies miniseries. In May, Del Rey/Villard will release a graphic-novel adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is due March 2 from Grand Central Publishing.

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One Response to “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

  1. freakengine Says:
    February 28th, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    I think this would make a better B movie than a novel. P&P&Z was terrible, IMHO.

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