Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old abraham lincoln kneels at his Suffering Mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk sicknes...Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old abraham lincoln kneels at his Suffering Mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk sickness." "My baby boy." She whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.