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"Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster. ""This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good.""-Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town. Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. One evening after book club, Patricia isviciouslyattacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing theneighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in years. Butwhen children on the other side of town gomissing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind-and Patricia has already invited him in. Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia's life and try to take everything she took for granted-including the book club-but she won't surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong."

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[A] clever, addictive vampire thriller....This powerful, eclectic novel both pays homage to the literary vampire canon and stands singularly within it. --Publishers Weekly, starred review The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is funny and warm and it's genuinely creepy and disturbing. Grady re-creates a time and place without the dangerous, distortive lens of nostalgia. --Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World Grady Hendrix has cemented his place as a literary luminary with The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Hendrix has taken his genuine affection for housewives and their work, and folded it seamlessly into a horrifying story of social decay and community betrayal. Cancel your plans and lock your doors -- you won't be able to stop reading this one until the very end --Sarah Gailey, Hugo-Award winning author of Magic for Liars Every vampire novel is going to have blood and teeth, but this one's got that one essential ingredient that nobody else does like Grady Hendrix: heart. These aren't characters, they're people, and I consider myself lucky to have known them for a few pages. --Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians Praise for We Sold Our Souls: Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel A 2019 Locus Award finalist for Best Horror Novel A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller. --CNET The quintessential horror-metal novel for our times. --Los Angeles Review of Books Kickass, horrifying, and smart as hell. It certainly earns my two horns up. --Dread Central An addictive read for the metalhead and horror hound alike. --Bloody Disgusting Hendrix's darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore. --Booklist, starred review If you see me in the wild and I'm reading a book that was written by Grady Hendrix, interrupt me at your own peril. --Sarah Gailey, Hugo-Award winning author of Magic for Liars Praise for Paperbacks from Hell Pure, demented delight. --The New York Times Book Review Paperbacks from Hell is as funny as it is engaging. --The Washington Post The book is a true appreciation of the genre. --Los Angeles Times Paperbacks from Hell is as wild as its source material. --The A.V. Club Just thumbing through these pages will bring back your youth--and terrify you all over again. --Newsday Praise for My Best Friend's Exorcism National treasure Grady Hendrix follows his classic account of a haunted IKEA-like furniture showroom, Horrorstor (2014), with a nostalgia-soaked ghost story, My Best Friend's Exorcism. --The Wall Street Journal Take The Exorcist, add some hair spray and wine coolers, and enroll it in high school in 1988 -- that'll give you My Best Friend's Exorcism...Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying. --Minnesota Public Radio Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving. --Fangoria A touching story of high school friendship and, well, demonic possession. --Bloody Disgusting Terrific...Sharply written...[My Best Friend's Exorcism] makes a convincing case for [Hendrix's] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior, filtered through a fun genre conceit that doesn't skimp on the spooky--or the bodily fluids. --The A.V. Club Praise for Horrorstoer Horrorstoer delivers a crisp terror-tale...[and] Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror. --The Washington Post Disarming. --The Wall Street Journal Hendrix conjures up some wonderfully gruesome imagery. --Nerdist An inventive, hilarious haunted house tale. --Bustle If you've ever been frustrated trying to put together furniture from IKEA, you'll get a laugh out of Hendrix's spoof mystery. --New York Post

The New York Times Best Seller A Barnes & Noble Best Fiction Book of 2020 2021 Locus Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist #1 April 2020 LibraryReads Pick April 2020 Indie Next Pick Amazon Best Book of April 2020 A Library Journal Editors' Pick for April 2020 The A.V. Club Best Book of April 2020 A POPSUGAR Best Book for Book Clubs 2020 One of Good Housekeeping's 30 of the Scariest Horror Books Ever Written This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good. -Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl Ghosts of the past have also inspired one of the most rollicking, addictive novels I've read in years: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, a tale of housewives battling vampires that is sweetly painful, like hard candy that breaks a tooth. -Danielle Trussoni for The New York Times Book Review A delight...its incisive social commentary and meaningful character development make The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires not just a palatable read for non-horror fans, but a winning one. -USA Today, 3.5 out of 4 star review Delightful read that reads like Dracula set in the '90s American South....Perfect for fans of horror and real-life crime alike. -Good Housekeeping The novel is a charming testament to friendships and life's imperfections, with dashes of rot and savagery to earn its keep in horror literature....It's a rollercoaster [that] lands as a vampire story concreted in vileness and Southern charm. -Fangoria [Hendrix] remains excellent at staging page-turning sequences of excitement and anxiety...[and] a master of adding little details that fill in the landscape of his Southern-fried world. -The A.V. Club As fun (and as creepy) as the title suggests....This novel will definitely whet your appetite if you're looking for something a bit eccentric and spooky. -BuzzFeed This book has all of the southern charm, '90s nostalgia, and savagery that you might expect from the title alone. -Business Insider [A] clever, addictive vampire thriller....This powerful, eclectic novel both pays homage to the literary vampire canon and stands singularly within it. -Publishers Weekly, starred review Hendrix cleverly sprinkles in nods to well-established vampire lore, and the fact that he's a master at conjuring heady 1990s nostalgia is just the icing on what is his best book yet. Fans of smart horror will sink their teeth into this one. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review Hendrix has masterfully blended the disaffected housewife trope with a terrifying vampire tale, and the anxiety and tension are palpable...a cheeky, spot-on pick for book clubs. -Booklist, starred review

Praise for We Sold Our Souls: Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel A 2019 Locus Award finalist for Best Horror Novel A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller. --CNET The quintessential horror-metal novel for our times. --Los Angeles Review of Books Kickass, horrifying, and smart as hell. It certainly earns my two horns up. --Dread Central An addictive read for the metalhead and horror hound alike. --Bloody Disgusting Hendrix's darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore. --Booklist, starred review If you see me in the wild and I'm reading a book that was written by Grady Hendrix, interrupt me at your own peril. --Sarah Gailey, Hugo-Award winning author of Magic for Liars Praise for Paperbacks from Hell Pure, demented delight. --The New York Times Book Review Paperbacks from Hell is as funny as it is engaging. --The Washington Post The book is a true appreciation of the genre. --Los Angeles Times Paperbacks from Hell is as wild as its source material. --The A.V. Club Just thumbing through these pages will bring back your youth--and terrify you all over again. --Newsday Praise for My Best Friend's Exorcism National treasure Grady Hendrix follows his classic account of a haunted IKEA-like furniture showroom, Horrorstor (2014), with a nostalgia-soaked ghost story, My Best Friend's Exorcism. --The Wall Street Journal Take The Exorcist, add some hair spray and wine coolers, and enroll it in high school in 1988 -- that'll give you My Best Friend's Exorcism...Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying. --Minnesota Public Radio Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving. --Fangoria A touching story of high school friendship and, well, demonic possession. --Bloody Disgusting Terrific...Sharply written...[My Best Friend's Exorcism] makes a convincing case for [Hendrix's] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior, filtered through a fun genre conceit that doesn't skimp on the spooky--or the bodily fluids. --The A.V. Club Praise for Horrorstoer Horrorstoer delivers a crisp terror-tale...[and] Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror. --The Washington Post Disarming. --The Wall Street Journal Hendrix conjures up some wonderfully gruesome imagery. --Nerdist An inventive, hilarious haunted house tale. --Bustle If you've ever been frustrated trying to put together furniture from IKEA, you'll get a laugh out of Hendrix's spoof mystery. --New York Post

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Grady Hendrixis an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author ofHorrorst r,My Best Friend's Exorcism,We Sold Our Souls, and theNew York TimesbestsellingThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, which is being adapted into a series by Amazon Studios. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction book,Paperbacks from Hell,a history of the horror paperback boom of the '70s and '80s.

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