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March 2nd, 2010

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, has been tapped by Tim Burton to kill vampires.

Kind of.

Burton plans to adapt a new book called “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” for the big screen. The novel, written by “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” author Seth Grahame-Smith, envisions Honest Abe as a “highly trained” vampire assassin.

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February 11th, 2010

Cable news king Bill O’Reilly is writing an Abraham Lincoln biography.

The Fox News host’s “Killing Lincoln,” co-written with Martin Dugard, is due out in fall 2011. It will be published by Henry Holt.

According to a statement from the publisher, the book will take readers “into Ford’s Theater and into the mind of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and on the manhunt to find and bring to justice the killer of one of our greatest presidents.”