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Grady Hendrix

New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix makes up lies and sells them to people. His novels include HORRORSTÖR about a haunted IKEA, MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM, which is basically "Beaches" meets "The Exorcist", WE SOLD OUR SOULS, a heavy metal horror epic, THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES, and THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP, coming on July 13, 2021. He's also the author of PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, an award-winning history of the horror paperback boom of the Seventies and Eighties. He wrote the screenplay for, MOHAWK, a horror flick about the War of 1812, and SATANIC PANIC about a pizza delivery woman fighting rich Satanists.

Genres: Horror, Young Adult Fantasy

New and upcoming books

January 2025

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Series

Magnolia League (with Katie Crouch)
2. The White Glove War (2012)

Novels

   Satan Loves You (2012)
   Li'l Wimmin (2013)
   Horrorstor (2014)
   My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016)
   We Sold Our Souls (2018)
   The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020)
   The Final Girl Support Group (2021)
   How to Sell a Haunted House (2023)
   Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025)

Collections

Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats (2012)
Diablo House (2020) (with Nancy Holder and David Niall Wilson)

Novellas and Short Stories

Bad Asstronauts (2012)
aka Occupy Space

Series contributed to

Creature Feature collection
2. Ankle Snatcher (2023)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Grady Hendrix

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 (2024)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 10)
edited by
Hugh Howey

Attack From the '80s (2021)
edited by
Eugene Johnson

After Sundown (2020)
(ABC of Horror, book 1)
edited by
Mark Morris

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Award nominations

	2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : How to Sell a Haunted House
	2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : How to Sell a Haunted House
	2022 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The Final Girl Support Group
	2022 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The Final Girl Support Group
	2021 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
	2021 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : The Final Girl Support Group
	2019 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : We Sold Our Souls
	2019 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : We Sold Our Souls
	2019 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : We Sold Our Souls

Grady Hendrix recommends

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng (2025)
Kylie Lee Baker
"This is what it felt like to live in New York City during lockdown: haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts. This book shook me in all the best ways."

At the Bottom of the Garden (2025)
Camilla Bruce
"All the elegance and all the venom, like one of E. Nesbit's supernatural stories served with a side of arsenic."

Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend (2024)
MJ Wassmer
"Worst Vacation Ever - Five Stars, Would Recommend."

Incidents Around the House (2024)
Josh Malerman
"A disturbing bedtime story told by a broken child, this book IS the monster that lives inside your closet."

Murder Road (2024)
Simone St James
"As creepy and unsettling as a rain-faded wreath and teddy bear found by the side of the road to mark a missing person, Murder Road lingers like a ghost long after it's finished."

The September House (2023)
Carissa Orlando
"Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."

Maeve Fly (2023)
CJ Leede
"An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho, a guidebook to the dead spaces of Los Angeles, a Hollywood black mass, an occult ritual that cracks the earth, Maeve Fly oozes enough anguish, alienation, and angst to drown the world."

Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything (2023)
Justine Pucella Winans
"A Pop Rocks thriller that fizzles on your tongue and delivers enough cults, birdwatching, and nonbinary crimefighting to make an afternoon disappear in a flash."

White Horse (2022)
Erika T Wurth
"Family ties are made from rusty barbed wire in White Horse, a book that feels as welcome as a dark bar on a hot afternoon, and whose story burns like a shot of rotgut whiskey."

Ghost Eaters (2022)
Clay McLeod Chapman
"Clay McLeod Chapman's guided tour of a shroom-and-gloom ghost world, where everyone is addicted to death, reads like a scared straight program that horrifies you into choosing life."

The Pallbearers Club (2022)
Paul Tremblay
"The most beautiful and heartbreaking funeral I've been to in a long time, THE PALLBEARERS CLUB is melancholy, funny, and very cruel, but you won't regret carrying this coffin."

Hokuloa Road (2022)
Elizabeth Hand
"Set in a Hawaii so vividly imagined I'm still shaking sand out of my shoes, Elizabeth Hand's perfectly crafted ghost story is exactly the comfort-destroying read you need on a long, lonely night."

Hidden Pictures (2022)
Jason Rekulak
"Hidden Pictures isn't a ghost story, it's a scalpel that slices into our smug sense of self-satisfaction so deeply it hits bone. A perfect summer thriller complete with vengeful spirits, class warfare, and it even has pictures. What more could you want?"

Something More Than Night (2021)
Kim Newman
"Newman's noir teams Boris Karloff with Raymond Chandler to solve gothic crimes in a 1930s Hollywood full of man-made monsters, dodgy movie studios, and ice-cold gimlets. Written in a James Ellroy rat-a-tat it's the perfect book for a summer afternoon by the pool with plenty of cocktails. If more mysteries were written like this, I’d read more mysteries."

Good Neighbours (2021)
Sarah Langan
"Where the hell has Sarah Langan been? Because she suddenly pops up again after being MIA for eleven years and shotguns everyone in the face with an all-American horror novel about friendships—deep, shallow, toxic, true—that's unpredictable enough to make every page-turn stomach-crampingly stressful."

Ten Dead Comedians (2017)
Fred Van Lente
"Fred Van Lente delivers an Agatha Christie twisty mystery filled with all the cruel, horrible, and violent deaths that only stand-up comedians truly deserve."

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