The Last American Vampire

"The combination of history and horror in The Last American Vampire makes you feel like it's the real thing. I've always enjoyed Seth's mixture of humor, emotions, and believability." —Tim Burton

In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Henry's will be an expansive journey that first sends him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash.

Along the way, Henry goes on the road in a Kerouac-influenced trip as Seth Grahame-Smith ingeniously waves vampire history through Russia's October Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, and the JFK assassination.

"Gorily fun." — People

"History buffs with a sense of humor and an unslaked thirst for the macabre will find much to savor in The Last American Vampire . . . A surprisingly funny, antic sequel that's like a delicious mash-up of the Web series Drunk History and the gothic 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows ." — Washington Post