“A gloriously over-the-top scare fest that has hidden depths. Readers will root for Kris all the way to the explosive, poignant finale.”
—Publishers Weekly
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.
Only a girl with a guitar can save us all.
Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead guitarist of Dürt Würk, a heavy-metal band on the brink of breakout success until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom, leaving his bandmates to rot in obscurity.
Now Kris works as night manager of a Best Western; she’s tired, broke, and unhappy. Then one day everything changes—a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band. Kris hits the road, hoping to reunite Dürt Würk and confront the man who ruined her life. Her journey will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a celebrity rehab center to a satanic music festival.
A spine-tingling horror novel, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, pill-popping, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul.
Signed Limited Hardcover Edition:
Limited to only 400 signed and hand-numbered copies
Personally signed by Grady Hendrix and Reiko Murakami on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
Larger 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
384 pages
Printed on a heavier 100gsm acid-free paper
Bound in premium cloth with coloured head and tail bands
Featuring five interior illustrations printed on a special silk art stock & tipped into the book
Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
Offset printed and bound with full-colour endpapers
Sewn binding for increased durability
Dust jacket artwork and interior illustrations by Reiko Murakami
Including extra bonus material
Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
A 2019 Locus Award finalist for Best Horror Novel
An NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour Pick
An io9 2018 Fall Preview Pick
A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
“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 is an indie horror legend, and We Sold Our Souls is one of his best.”
—Book Riot
“Wild and fun, genuinely terrifying in places, and also somehow heartfelt.”
—Tor.com
“Hendrix’s horror chops are nigh-unassailable at this point.”
—B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy blog
“A fast-paced ride, firmly rooted in the pulp horror tradition…Hendrix’s darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore.”
—Booklist, starred review
“Enthralling and intense...The plot goes 0 to 100 real quick, and once it does, you won’t want to put the book down.”
—Sean Curry, UC San Diego Bookstore bookseller, in the San Diego Union-Tribune
“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 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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