Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about the Illinois Rail Splitter so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Graham

Smith. Joining us to discuss this alternate history where the good guys win is K.L. Lincoln

fan and repentant Southerner. Howdy y'all. It's the only time I've ever said that in my life. Good day, ma'am.

Thank you kindly for joining us. Okay, so I love this book, first of all. It is amazing. Yes. K.L. and I both

had read it before, and after, like, reading a comic that was John Barrowman's

face on every page, I was like, yes, let's do this book. It's not actually bad, but it fits

our brand, and I deserve it after reading that comic.

I'm so glad you brought it into my life, because, so if you don't know, Seth Graham-Smith,

his first kind of one of these kinds of things was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

And then he wrote some other things that were kind of like historical horror or literary horror

mashups.

And I had read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies when it first came out, because I was

like, that's like a funny concept. And I just, I didn't really like it that much. I thought the idea was funny, and it was just sort of executed in a way that I didn't care about that much. So then I sort of like, I wrote off all the other ones. I was like, yeah, I'm not going to check these out anymore. But this is way better, in my opinion. Yeah. I had actually, Seth Graham Smith came

onto my radar because as a graduation from college gift or a birthday gift, for some reason,

my friend Stephen gave me a book called How to Survive a Horror Movie, which is one of those

like novelty kind of like joke books.

But you could tell that the person who read it really loved horror movies and really

understood how the formulas made them work.

And like it was not, sometimes those books come across as, like, poking fun at people who like this.

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