Grahame-Smith, Seth
Entry updated 9 February 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1976- ) US author, producer, screenwriter and Comics writer who began to publish work of genre interest with two spoof books of advice: The Spider-Man Handbook (2006) is a training manual or instruction text supposedly for use by the titular Superhero or those aspiring to his web-slinging role, while How to Survive a Horror Movie (2007) purports to brief film characters on how to recognize the particular kind of Horror scenario in which they find themselves, deal with its sf, supernatural and other threats, and (however implausibly) come out alive. Grahame-Smith achieved considerable commercial success with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) "with" Jane Austen (1775-1817), a mash-up novel which interpolates scenes of over-the-top Zombie and ninja-warrior violence into the public-domain romance narrative of Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813); this was filmed as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2013) directed by Michael J Mantsourani Jr. A further excursion into historical fantasy, this time featuring Vampires, is the Henry Sturges sequence comprising Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2010) – whose title is perhaps sufficiently self-explanatory, Henry Sturges being Lincoln's mentor in vampire-hunting – and The Last American Vampire (2015), whose extensive cast of characters includes Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper, Bram Stoker and Nikola Tesla. The first volume was filmed as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) directed by Timur Bekmambetov with a screenplay by Grahame-Smith. [DRL]
Seth Grahame-Smith
born Rockville Centre, New York: 4 January 1976
works (selected)
series
Henry Sturges
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2010) [Henry Sturges: hb/Scott Nobles]
- The Last American Vampire (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2015) [Henry Sturges: hb/Scott Nobles]
individual titles
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2009) "with" Jane Austen [pb/Doogie Horner]
- Unholy Night (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012) [hb/]
nonfiction
- The Spider-Man Handbook (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2006) [nonfiction: pb/]
- How to Survive a Horror Movie (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books, 2007) [nonfiction: pb/]
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