“Grady Hendrix’s horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre...By weaving violence, family trauma and humor, Hendrix creates a texture that engages the reader emotionally and viscerally…[a] gripping, wildly entertaining exploration of childhood horrors.”
“A delight...Hendrix, with relentless efficiency—and a bit of humor—forces us to confront our fears.”
“Skillfully balances complete creep outs and moments of outright hilarity. The down-home charm of the Charleston family is on point, and the scares are fun and frequent, while the author almost painfully captures sibling dynamics. Readers will be completely sucked in by Hendrix’s adept prose.”
“A madcap funhouse of a novel. Zigzags from hilarious to horrifying to heartbreaking and back again in the blink of an eye. I loved it!”
—Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The House Across the Lake“Classic Grady Hendrix: an authentically frightening, genuinely funny reconfiguration of what a haunted house can be.”
—Esquire“[A] campy, cinematic ride.”
—People“Hendrix is a contemporary horror master, and the combination of profound storytelling and unapologetic, campy gore he delivers here will surely have horror fans reading with a gleeful smile on their faces.”
—NPR“This book is a missile designed to obliterate you emotionally and absolutely annihilate you with terror. And let me tell you, Grady Hendrix does not miss.”
—Mallory O’Meara, National bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon“It's tempting to point out the balance of horror and humor here, and the commingling of the two really is something else, but the true power behind
How to Sell a Haunted House is in its emotionality, the sister-brother dynamic, the family matters. It's life and death in the childhood home, and Hendrix has masterfully rendered the journey from one end to the other.”
—Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Daphne“May be Grady Hendrix’s best novel yet, and that’s saying a lot! Highly recommended.”
—Mick Garris, writer and director (The Stand, The Shining miniseries)“A searing look at grief, trauma, and how the things that haunt us aren't always supernatural.”
—Rolling Stone“Another Southern Gothic Horror Comedy classic from Grady Hendrix…This clever, creepy, rollicking book will tug at your horror and heart strings.”
—Paul Tremblay, National bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club“A pulse-pounding exercise in pure horror drive that never loses sight of its emotional core, and that makes it quintessential Hendrix.”
—Paste Magazine“Grady Hendrix tap dances the line between horror and heart. It’s terrifying, darkly funny and empathetic with a left turn, a left hook when you’re least expecting it. I loved it.”
—Lauren Beukes, Author of The Shining Girls“A spirited nightmare story about death, but also, what comes after: grief, guilt, family secrets, and estate administration. Oh, also, did I mention the evil puppets?”
—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents“After reading this, you might keep a weather eye on that doll propped over in the corner. And you probably also don't want to be trusting Grady Hendrix with a few hundred pages of your head anymore.”
—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of My Heart is a Chainsaw“With his trademark charm and ingenuity, Hendrix upends the haunted house story.”
—Alma Katsu, Author of The Fervor and The HungerPraise for The Final Girl Support Group:“
The Final Girl Support Group sizzles with action, originality, and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel.”
—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author"Pray for morning, wish for speed, and be as quiet as you can, it doesn't matter—Grady Hendrix's
The Final Girl Support Group already knows where you live and breathe."
—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians“A great read…[Hendrix] excels at writing horror humor… His characters are funny and real, though at least one will definitely lose a limb at some point…Though the final girls’ plight has all the scares of great horror fiction, there is an element of truth in their situation that will be recognizable to anyone who has experienced real trauma.”
—The New York Times"Equal parts thrilling and darkly funny."
—Time“A savvy summer slasher … continues his winning run of meta horror novels…a wickedly entertaining page-turner.”
—USA Today“It’s not necessary to be a fan of slasher movies to enjoy this very clever, gleefully violent, self-aware deconstruction of the genre.”
—The Guardian“Grady Hendrix has demonstrated a remarkable facility for suspense…With his latest work,
The Final Girl Support Group, he’s turned that talent into a nearly book-length workout, an exercise in go-go acceleration that steps on the gas soon after it begins and doesn’t stop until the final pages.”
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The A.V. Club"A darkly clever take on the horror genre's most infamous trope."
—Elle“
The Final Girl Support Group is funny, scary, and a roaring good time. Grady Hendrix puts his own spin on final girls and I loved it.”
—Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife"Take slasher movie adoration, critique, and satire, mix with compelling, flawed characters and neck-breaking plot twists, and drop it all into an industrial blender with large blades. Voilà, you now have Grady's maniacally clever and compulsively readable
The Final Girl Support Group."
—Paul Tremblay, national bestselling author of Survivor Song“Dissects slasher obsession with cutting humor and heart.”
—Bloody Disgusting“A wildly entertaining romp through the conventions of horror’s slasher film subgenre…Hendrix masterfully evokes the paranoid existences of his diverse cast in the aftermath of their traumatic ordeals, and he so explicitly details the massacres and fictional film sagas that grew out of them that readers may believe them to be real. The result is a wonderfully suspenseful and darkly comic novel that cleverly subverts popular culture. Horror fans will be wowed.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"If you grew up on a diet of '80s slasher movies,
The Final Girl Support Group is the book you've been waiting for...Clever, fast-paced horror comedy."
—Oprah Daily"
The Final Girl Support Group is a deft examination of how our culture's obsession with misogynistic violence destroys the lives of women and how those women are able to keep fighting and living after unthinkable trauma. The beating heart of this book is empathy and it's set into a lightning-paced, vicious thriller. Reading it was a catharsis. Absolutely unmissable. Horror fans... you've never read a slasher like this."
—Mallory O'Meara, national bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon“With
The Final Girl Support Group Grady Hendrix transforms a horror trope into something bloody original. An incisive examination of society's obsession with violence against women that simultaneously honors and roasts the slasher genre with equal prowess. Wildly entertaining and clever as hell.”
—Rachel Harrison, author of The Return“Grady Hendrix’s canny new novel,
The Final Girl Support Group, gathers all the tropes and iconography of a decade’s worth of slasher movies, throws them into a blender with much more wit and intelligence than any of those movies displayed, in a truly original, compelling, suspenseful tour de force… with a knowing wink. Hendrix has a rare, unique voice in a genre sorely in need of more!"
—Mick Garris, writer and director (The Stand, Bag of Bones, The Shining miniseries)"A crazy emotional roller coaster ride that took me right back to 1980, but it needs a warning label: may cause severe anxiety, suggest reading with CBD and a glass of wine."
—Adrienne King, actress, artist, and Friday the 13th’s first Final Girl"
The Final Girl Support Group is perfect for anyone who loves old slasher movies and, oddly enough, anyone who hates them. Grady Hendrix has somehow crafted both an homage to B-horror schlock and a clever dissection of the genre, all delivered in the form of one long breathless chase punctuated by both unpredictable twists and thoughtful insight."
—David Wong, New York Times bestselling author of John Dies at the End"A (bloody) valentine to the slasher franchises of the VHS era, but also a smart novel about survivor guilt and the concept of the enduring heroine."
—Kim Newman, author of Anno Dracula
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
“Think Mean Girls with demonic possession, set in 1988 Charleston. It’s funny, it’s heart-wrenching, it’s even a little spiritual, in a very strange way.”
—Southern Living magazine
“The perfect mix of '80s nostalgia and scares.”
—POPSUGAR
“This book packs all the magic of a summer horror flick.”
—Bustle
“The rare exorcism book that will make you cry, My Best Friend’s Exorcism is both a truly scary tale and a loving tribute to high school friendship.”
—Hypable
“If you’re looking for a good summer book, something for the beach or the back porch that won’t insult your intelligence, one that’s tense and sometimes scary and sometimes funny, with characters you may even come to like and admire as they come of age, keep My Best Friend’s Exorcism in mind.”
—SFFWorld
Praise for Horrorstör:
“Horrorstör 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
“Hendrix’s one-of-a-kind novel is an innovative hybrid of ghost story and satire, at once clever, gruesome, and hilarious.”
—Amazon Book Review
“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
“Wildly fun and outrageously inventive.”
—Shelf Awareness for Readers, 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
“Hendrix is an engaging writer.”
—Santa Fe New Mexican
“A clever little horror story...[and] a treat for fans of The Evil Deador Zombieland, complete with affordable solutions for better living.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A fun horror novel.”
—Library Journal
“A very clever ghost story.”
—Booklist
“The book’s packaging as a catalog—complete with illustrations of increasingly sinister-looking furniture with faux Scandinavian names—gives it a charmingly oddball allure.”
—Publishers Weekly
More praise for Grady Hendrix:
“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, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“Pure, demented delight.”
—The New York Times Book Review, on Paperbacks from Hell
“Terrific... Sharply written... [My Best Friend’s Exorcism] makes a convincing case for [Hendrix’s] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior.”
—The A.V. Club, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“Hendrix’s darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore.”
—Booklist, starred review, on We Sold Our Souls
“A true appreciation of the genre.”
—Los Angeles Times, on Paperbacks from Hell
“Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying.”
—Minnesota Public Radio, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving.”
—Fangoria, on My Best Friend’s Exorcism
“A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller.”
—CNET, on We Sold Our Souls
Praise for The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires:
Included in The New York Times Book Review's 2020 Summer Reading issue!
Amazon Best Mystery & Thriller of 2020 So Far
Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2020 So Far
#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
POPSUGAR Best of April 2020
Goodreads Big Book of Spring 2020
“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
“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
“[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
“A vampire's hunger for blood may be insatiable, but this masterpiece novel ladles out ample thrills, chills, and relevant examples of sociopolitical injustices to satisfy any literary appetite.”
—Foreword Reviews, starred review
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