The book on which the film is based was one of the more prominent in the mashup trend of 2009-2010. The mini-genre kicked off with Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which took the characters from Jane Austen’s classic and set them against the walking dead. In Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, the author moved away from using a pre-existing text, opting instead to take a historical character and place them in a supernatural world.