Revising History of the Civil War and Slavery Yet Again

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer, the movie coming out next year from that admitted by author, "cynically commercially conceived" mashup novel, professes the Southern slave trade was created by vampires. This is why citizens of this country don't know our own history, because we get it from movies like RR's travesty, The Conspirator.

Tim Burton, part of the production team for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer, says:

Mr. Burton said he was instantly captivated by the book’s premise, though he had never been a serious student of the country’s heritage. “I didn’t really learn much, but I like that idea of history being told this way,” he said, speaking last week from London, where he is getting ready to start shooting another vampire movie, the entirely fictional “Dark Shadows.”


The “Vampire Hunter” film, like the book, follows Lincoln from his boyhood on the frontier through his assassination by John Wilkes Booth and — because this is a vampire story — beyond. Young Lincoln, having learned that his grandfather and mother were killed by vampires, vows to kill every last blood-sucker in a country that is crawling with them.


On realizing that vampires are tangled in the slave trade, Lincoln’s resolve grows and takes on a moral dimension. To complicate matters he also learns that the creatures come in two varieties, good and bad.