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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is an original Southern Gothic horror from New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix. 'I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I'm going to have to do an evil thing to get out.' They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood House 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. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists she's going to keep her baby and escape to a commune. Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby's father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Every moment of their waking day 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. *PRE-ORDER NOW*

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Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying. A gripping new read from the horror master * USA Today * The Final Girl Support Group sizzles with action, originality and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel -- Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling selling The Southern Vampire Mysteries

Grady Hendrix’s horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre -- <i>The New York Times</i> Hendrix’s book sets the high watermark for horror -- <i>Booklist</i>, Starred Review for <i>How to Sell a Haunted House</i> A gripping new read from the horror master -- USA Today on <i>How to Sell a Haunted House</i> Sizzles with action, originality and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel -- Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries on <i>The Final Girl Support Group</i>

There’s spells, there’s witches, and then there’s the magic Grady Hendrix conjures up in this amazing novel -- Stephen Graham Jones, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>I Was a Teenage Slasher</i> A morally complex and genuinely haunting and moving tale. I couldn't put it down once I started -- Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of <i>The Cabin at the End of the World</i> Grady Hendrix does it again, only better . . . Enchanting and entertaining -- Alma Katsu, author of <i>The Fervor</i> Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is terrifying, darkly funny, moving, immersive, and deeply relevant – a page-turner that will keep you up until one in the morning . . . Grady Hendrix is at the top of his game -- Simone St. James, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Murder Road</i> Grady Hendrix’s horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre -- <i>The New York Times</i> Hendrix’s book sets the high watermark for horror -- <i>Booklist</i>, Starred Review for <i>How to Sell a Haunted House</i> A gripping new read from the horror master -- <i>USA Today</i> on <i>How to Sell a Haunted House</i> Grady Hendrix tap dances the line between horror and heart. It’s terrifying, darkly funny and empathetic with a left turn, a left hook when you’re least expecting it. I loved it -- Lauren Beukes, author of <i>The Shining Girls</i> on <i>How to Sell a Haunted House</i> Sizzles with action, originality and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel -- Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries on <i>The Final Girl Support Group</i>

Grady Hendrix’s horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre -- <i>The New York Times</i> Hendrix’s book sets the high watermark for horror -- <i>Booklist</i>, Starred Review for <i>How to Sell a Haunted House</i> A gripping new read from the horror master -- USA Today on <i>How to Sell a Haunted House</i> Sizzles with action, originality and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel -- Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling selling The Southern Vampire Mysteries on <i>The Final Girl Support Group</i>

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Grady Hendrix writes fiction, also called 'lies', and non-fiction, which people sometimes accidentally pay him for. He is the author of Horrorstör, the only novel about a haunted Scandinavian furniture store you'll ever need. It has been translated into fourteen languages and is being turned into a movie from the people who made quality films like 1917 and Black Swan. Foolishly, they are paying Grady to write it. He is busy inserting a whole lot of tutus into it right now. His novel My Best Friend's Exorcism, about demonic possession, friendship, exorcism, and the 1980s, is basically Beaches meets The Exorcist. It caused The Wall Street Journal to call him 'a national treasure' and it received rave reviews from everyone from Kirkus to Southern Living. Surprisingly, this is still not enough for him to earn his mother's love.

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