Seth Grahame-Smith to Pen Sequel for ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’

By Maryann Yin 

b654623d4f61f9d76598d08bc4106d72Writer Seth Grahame-Smith has been working on a sequel to the 2010 hit title, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterDeadline reports that Grand Central Publishing, an imprint at Hachette Book Group USA, plans to publish the finished book in January 2015.

The first book served as the basis for a popular movie adaptation that came out in June 2012. For that film, Grahame-Smith (pictured, via) collaborated with X-Men movie screenwriter Simon Kinberg to pen the script.

In addition to his novel, Grahame-Smith also has a film project in the pipeline. Disney recently hired him to serve as the director for a remake of the Something Wicked This Way Comes movie (based on the beloved thriller by Ray Bradbury).