Grady Hendrix

Written in dead letters... and covered in blood! Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell. Where did they come from? Where did they go? Horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and sanity (not to mention yours) to relate the true, untold story of the Paperbacks From Hell. Shocking story summaries! Incredible cover art! And true tales of writers, artists, and publishers who violated every literary law but one: never be boring. All this awaits, if you dare experience the Paperbacks From Hell.

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , A Nightmare on Elm Street , and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.   But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in rural Pennsylvania. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western - she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Everything changes when she discovers a shocking secret from her heavy metal past: Turns out that Terry's meteoric rise to success may have come at the price of Kris's very soul. This revelation prompts Kris to hit the road, reunite with the rest of her bandmates, and confront the man who ruined her life. It's a journey that will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a Satanic rehab center and finally to a Las Vegas music festival that's darker than any Mordor Tolkien could imagine. A furious power ballad about never giving up, even in the face of overwhelming odds, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul...where only a girl with a guitar can save us all.

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dark by the New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. Marcus grew up believing his father killed his mother—then blamed it on the boogeyman under the bed. Always leave the lights on, his father warned, or the boogeyman will get you. Marcus still heeds the superstition, especially when he invites his new girlfriend over. Is Marcus haunted by a creature or has he just inherited his father’s murderous delusions? The night will tell. Grady Hendrix’s 'Ankle Snatcher' is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking. To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they'll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination. A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, "Horrorstor "comes packaged in the form of a glossy mail order catalog, complete with product illustrations, a home delivery order form, and a map of Orsk's labyrinthine showroom. It's "a treat for fans of "The Evil Dead" or "Zombieland," complete with affordable solutions for better living."--"Kirkus Reviews."

Hell is short on workplace satisfaction and after the last two thousand years Satan is burnt out. But now the Heavenly Host want to take over and a depressed Satan must oppose them in a metaphysical smackdown that will have you re-evaluating the recording career of Charo.

Dos jóvenes estudiantes de Secundaria, llamadas Abby y Gretchen, se tienen la una a la otra como mejores amigas desde los tiempos de la infancia. Pero en una noche de juerga en la que se bañan desnudas todo les sale espantosamente mal y Gretchen, a partir de entonces... cambia. Está siempre de mal humor. Irritable. Y empiezan a sucederse extraños incidentes en los que, invariablemente, Gretchen está implicada. Abby empieza a investigar y se adentra en un misterio sobrecogedor... Cuando la historia llegue a su momento culminante, el destino de Abby y Grechen girará en torno a una única pregunta: ¿La amistad entre ambas será lo bastante fuerte como para derrotar al Diablo? Un espeluznante cruce entre Eternamente amigas y El exorcista, combina las angustias de la adolescencia, los dramas de la iniciación a la vida, los horrores más indescriptibles y un cóctel de canciones de moda de los años ochenta en un thriller sobrenatural de gran intensidad.

Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…

Cuando Louise se entera de que sus padres han muerto, teme volver a casa. No quiere dejar a su pequeña con su ex y volar a Charleston. No quiere enfrentarse al domicilio familiar, donde se amontonan los restos de la vida académica de su padre y de la constante obsesión de su madre por los títeres y los muñecos. No quiere aprender a vivir sin las dos personas que mejor la han conocido y más la han querido del mundo entero. Sobre todo, no quiere tener que lidiar con su hermano, Mark, que nunca ha salido de Charleston, es incapaz de conservar un empleo y no lleva bien el éxito de Louise. Por desgracia, ella lo necesita, porque, para vender esa casa, va a hacer falta algo más que una manita de pintura y retirar los recuerdos de toda una vida. Pero hay casas que no se dejan vender, y la de Louise y Mark tiene otros planes para ellos dos…

A Patricia Campbell su existencia nunca le ha parecido tan insignificante. Su marido es un adicto al trabajo, sus hijos adolescentes tienen su propia vida, su suegra senil necesita cuidados constantes, y siente que siempre va un paso por detrás de su interminable lista de cosas por hacer. Lo único que la mantiene viva es su club de lectura, un pequeño grupo de mujeres de Charleston unidas por su amor a las novelas de crímenes reales. En esas reuniones se habla de todo: desde la familia Manson a asuntos de sus propias familias. Una tarde después de la reunión del club, Patricia es salvajemente atacada por una anciana vecina, lo que le llevará a conocer al atractivo sobrino de esta, James Harris. James es un hombre de mundo y muy leído que despertará en Patricia sentimientos que no había tenido en años. Pero cuando al otro lado de la ciudad unos niños empiezan a desaparecer y sus muertes son ignoradas por la policía local, empezará a sospechar que James Harris es más un criminal que una réplica en carne y hueso de Brad Pitt. ¿Cuál es el verdadero problema? James es un monstruo de una especie diferente, y Patricia le ha dejado entrar en su vida. Poco a poco, James se irá introduciendo en la vida cotidiana de Patricia tratando de apoderarse de todo lo que considera suyo, incluido su club de lectura. Sin embargo ella no está dispuesta a rendirse sin luchar en esta historia plagada de sangre sobre una relación de buena vecindad transformada en algo siniestro.

1988. Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. . But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act… different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil? Like an unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist, My best Friend's Exorcism blends teen angst, adolescent drama, unspeakable horrors, and a mix of '80s pop songs into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller.

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking. To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination. A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, Horrorstör is designed to retain its luster and natural appearance for a lifetime of use. Pleasingly proportioned with generous French flaps and a softcover binding, Horrorstör delivers the psychological terror you need in the elegant package you deserve. Designed by Andie Reid, cover photography by Christine Ferrara.

„Hendrix își folosește cu pricepere cunoștințele cinematografice, însă nu e nevoie să fii fan al filmelor slasher pentru a te bucura de această deconstrucție foarte inteligentă a genului, plină de o violență ironică.“ THE GUARDIAN În filmele de groază, supraviețuitoarea este cea care rămâne în picioare atunci când apare genericul de final. Cea care s-a luptat, l-a învins pe ucigaș și apoi și-a răzbunat prietenii. Cea care iese plină de sânge, dar învingătoare. Însă după ce sunetele sirenelor mașinilor de poliție se estompează și publicul merge mai departe, ce se întâmplă cu ea? Lynnette Tarkington este o astfel de supraviețuitoare. În urmă cu douăzeci și doi de ani, ea a scăpat dintr-un masacru, iar acel moment i-a definit fiecare zi ce a urmat. Timp de peste un deceniu, ea s-a întâlnit cu alte cinci femei asemeni ei și cu terapeuta lor, într-un grup de sprijin pentru cele care au supraviețuit inimaginabilului, refăcându-și viața bucățică cu bucățică. Până la o ședință de la care una dintre ele lipsește, iar cele mai mari temeri ale lui Lynnette devin realitate: cineva știe despre grup și este hotărât să le dezintegreze viețile din nou. Bucățică cu bucățică. Dar puterea supraviețuitoarelor stă în faptul că acum se au una pe cealaltă și, indiferent cât de mici le sunt șansele, cât de întunecată este noaptea, cât de ascuțit este cuțitul, ele vor lupta până la capăt. „Nu e doar un roman horror. Hendrix întoarce genul pe dos pentru a-i arăta cusăturile. Pe jumătate amuzant, pe jumătate îngrozitor, romanul acesta continuă și apoi scrie finalul a zeci, poate sute de filme horror din anii ’70-’80.“ MARIAN COMAN redactor-șef Armada

An army of fundamentalist cadavers! The Potato Homunculus! Decapitated heads that sing! Tong wars! Bacon sex! German Christmas demons! What hope does mankind have in the face of this paranormal perversion? Absolutely none! But cold hard facts have never stopped the White Street Society! This band of 19th century gentleman adventurers have dedicated most of their leisure time to investigating the paranormal, the supernatural, and the unexplained; often with violence, occasionally with science. This volume collects four of their best-known "The Hairy Ghost," "The Corpse Army of Khartoum," "The Yellow Peril," and a brand new adventure, "The Christmas Spirits." Ranging from Gilded Age New York to British-controlled Sudan with its ruined desert city of Khartoum, these stories will inform, illuminate, and alarm. The Tales of the White Street Society were originally published by Pseudopod, the audio fiction site. They are collected here as short stories due to popular demand, along with a new story entitled “The Christmas Spirits” that has never before been seen anywhere else and is sure to curl your mustache. You will come away from this slim volume with an understanding of the supernatural wonders that these bold men of the 19th century were compelled to shoot, poison, burn, and beat to death with shovels.

Spacefaring researchers disturb an ancient horror. An enchanted object curses a grieving widow. A haunted reel torments a film student. A murder trial hinges on a chilling testimony. In Howls From Hell, sixteen emerging horror writers pave the way for the future of the genre. Fans of dark and macabre fiction will savor this exhibition of all-original tales born from one of the fastest-growing horror communities in the world: HOWL Society. With a foreword by Grady Hendrix, this anthology unveils the horror writers of tomorrow with spine-tingling stories from P.L. McMillan, J.W. Donley, Shane Hawk, Christopher O'Halloran, Alex Wolfgang, Amanda Nevada DeMel, Lindsey Ragsdale, Solomon Forse, Justin Faull, M. David Clarkson, B.O.B. Jenkin, S.E. Denton, Thea Maeve, Joseph Andre Thomas, Joe Radkins, and Quinn Fern.

Creepy boyfriends! Scarlett fever! Poverty! Writer Grady Hendrix (Satan Loves You) and cartoonist Ryan Dunlavey (Action Philosophers) translate Louisa May Alcott's 185,644 word required reading perennial Little Women into a snappy comic strip collection you can read at your locker in-between lunch and 3rd period English!

Un viaje épico hacia el corazón de un país paranoico dominado por las pastillas y las conspiraciones que parece haber perdido su propia alma. Todas las mañanas, Kris Pulaski se despierta en medio de un infierno. En los 90, era la guitarrista solista de Dürt Würk, un grupo de heavy metal que rozó el éxito con los dedos hasta que el cantante principal, Terry Hunt, emprendió una carrera en solitario que lo lanzó al estrellato y dejó que sus compañeros se pudrieran en la irrelevancia. Ahora Kris trabaja como gerente nocturna del Best Western; está agotada, arruinada y deprimida. Sin embargo, un día todo cambia: un sobrecogedor acto violento pone su vida patas arriba, y comienza a sospechar que Terry no solo saboteó la banda. Kris se lanza a la carretera con la esperanza de reunir a Dürt Würk y enfrentarse al hombre que le arruinó la vida. Su viaje la llevará desde el cinturón industrial de Pensilvania hasta un satánico festival de música, pasando por un centro de rehabilitación para celebridades.

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 blood-sucking fiend. Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood. But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she--and her book club--are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.

Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was out of astronauts. There were only two to begin with, and now one is stuck on the abandoned International Space Station after his mission went bad. With NASA’s budget cut to the bone there’s no one to bring him back home again, but his cousin, Walter Reddie, isn’t about to let that happen. Tanked on vodka, Walter's a good ol' boy wash-out from the original Shuttle Program and he’ll be damned if his cousin is going to die like a dog in space. And so he decides to build a rocket. If America won’t rescue its astronauts, he’ll do it himself.Violating numerous laws, common sense, logic, and reason, Walter Reddie becomes a lightning rod for people who aren’t ready to lay down and die just yet. His "redneck NASA" becomes the promised land for losers, drifters, rocket junkies, pyromaniacs, misfits, dreamers, science nerds, and astro-hippies who still believe that the future of America is in space. But chances are they’ll blow themselves up, get arrested, or kill each other before they ever get into low earth orbit.

From New York Times bestselling author of My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix takes a break from horror and goes all-in on sci-fi in this novella about backyard rocket jockeys trying to get into low earth orbit.Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was out of astronauts. There were only two to begin with, and now one is stuck on the abandoned International Space Station after his mission went south. With NASA’s budget cut to the bone, there’s no one to bring him back home, so everyone is only too happy to ignore this embarrassing sign of American Failure and just let him die. But his cousin, Walter Reddie, isn’t going to let that happen.Tanked on vodka, living on a “farm” whose only crop is cars on cinderblocks, Walter's a wash-out from the Shuttle Program and he’ll be damned if he’s going to let his cousin die in the sky like a dog. And so he begins to build a rocket. If America won’t rescue its astronauts, he’ll do it himself.Violating numerous laws, good taste, common sense, logic, and reason, Walter becomes a lightning rod for people who aren’t ready to give up. His farm is transformed into the promised land for misfits, drifters, rocket junkies, pyromaniacs, dreamers, science nerds, and astro-hippies who believe that space shouldn’t just be for billionaires. But it won’t be easy. Chances are good they’ll blow themselves up, get arrested, or kill each other before they ever get into orbit.

Difficile la vita di Patricia Campbell: il marito è troppo impegnato col lavoro, i figli con le loro vicende, l'anziana suocera ha bisogno di cure costanti per cui Patricia è sempre in ritardo nel suo infinito elenco di faccende domestiche. La sua unica oasi felice è un gruppo di lettura, formato da donne unite dal comune amore per il true crime. Nei loro incontri, invece che di matrimoni, maternità e pettegolezzi, si parla della famiglia Manson. Ma un giorno James Harris, bello e misterioso, viene a vivere nello stesso quartiere di Charleston e si unisce al gruppo. James è un uomo sensibile, colto e fa sentire a Patricia cose che non provava da anni. Eppure c'è qualcosa di strano in lui: non ha un conto in banca, non esce durante il giorno e la suocera di Patricia sostiene di averlo conosciuto da ragazza. Quando i bambini di colore cominciano a scomparire senza che la polizia faccia nulla, in Patricia e nelle amiche si fa strada il sospetto che James sia un serial killer, ma nessuno al di fuori del gruppo ci crede. Sono loro ad aver letto troppi libri di true crime o quello che si aggira nelle loro case è un mostro vero? Insomma Guida al trattamento dei vampiri per casalinghe è un horror che ci racconta l'America di oggi: la condizione delle donne, dei neri, la violenza maschile e il fascino per il crimine, e molto molto altro…

La terrorífica novela de una de las voces más consolidadas del género, Grady Hendrix. En las películas de miedo, las Final Girls son las que han quedado con vida cuando empiezan a pasar los títulos de créditos. Han sobrevivido a la peor noche de su vida, sí, pero… ¿qué sucede luego? Lynnette Tarkington es una Final Girl, una de esas que sobrevivió a una masacre. Durante más de una década, ha estado reuniéndose con otras cinco Final Girls y con su terapeuta en un grupo de apoyo secreto para mujeres que han sobrevivido a situaciones increíbles, trabajando todas ellas para recuperar su vida. Entonces, un día, una de ellas parece que llegue tarde a la reunión… hasta que los peores miedos de las demás se hacen realidad: al parecer, alguien conoce la existencia del grupo y está decidido a asesinar a todas sus integrantes, una a una. La cuestión con las Final Girls es que da igual lo bajas que sean las probabilidades que tienen de sobrevivir, lo oscura que sea la noche o lo afilado que esté el cuchillo, porque nunca, nunca, se rinden.

There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who knows she’s going to go home and marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood. In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).

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 blood-sucking fiend. Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood. But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she—and her book club—are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.