The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The New York Times Best Seller. A Barnes and Noble Best Fiction Book of 2020. A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist. Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this '90s-set horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town, perfect for murderinos and fans of Stephen King. 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 is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor'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. But when children on the other side of town go missing, 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.

Included in The New York Times Book Review's 2020 Summer Reading issue!
2021 Locus Award Finalist
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 AV. Club Best Book of April 2020
POPSUGAR Best of April 2020
Goodreads Big Book of Spring 2020
A POPSUGAR Best Book for Book Clubs 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

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

[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

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

Horrorstoer delivers a crisp terror-tale...[and] Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror.-The Washington Post, on Horrorstoer

Grady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His novels include Horrorstor, named one of the best books of 2014 by NPR, and My Best Friend s Exorcism, for which the Wall Street Journal dubbed him a national treasure. The Bram Stoker Award-winning Paperbacks from Hell, a survey of outrageous horror novels of the 1970s and 80s, was called pure, demented delight by the New York Times Book Review. His most recent novel, We Sold Our Souls, was an NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour Pick and an i09 Fall Preview Pick. He has contributed to Playboy, The Village Voice, and Variety.

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ISBN 13	9781683691457
ISBN 10	1683691458
Title	The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Author	Grady Hendrix
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quirk Books
Year published	2020-04-07
Number of pages	352
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