When does a historic crime become a mystery? And when, and why, does a President who made history become the sort of person who knocks on an unfamiliar door late at night, pulls out an axe, and chops off a vampire’s head? “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” directed by Timur Bekmambetov and produced by Tim Burton, opens next week—in 3-D, naturally—the film adaptation of the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who also wrote “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” In this work, a mysterious figure in sunglasses and a vintage T-shirt hands the author a package containing Lincoln’s lost letters and diaries. On the page of one leather-bound volume, the future President, still a young man, has written,
So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.
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