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.
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.
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
One of Town & Country’s 50 Best Horror Books
“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
“Funny, gruesome, and wild, this rollicking novel from horror
luminary Grady Hendrix is Desperate Housewives meets
Dracula.”—Esquire
“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 should be required reading for all Southern
women....[It] transports you back to all the best parts of the
1990's while throwing more than enough thrill and chill into the
mix.”—Country Living
“[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
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