
"The premise of the book is absurd," Grahame-Smith says. Author Seth Grahame-Smith explores that premise in a new book you can really sink your teeth into. Then suppose that, in 19th-century America, the forces of good and evil battled for the soul of the new republic - what we now know as the Civil War. Imagine if, among the tired, poor and huddled masses, there was another group of immigrants who yearned to be free in America.

His first novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, was a New York Times bestseller.

Seth Grahame-Smith is a film and television writer.
