THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library 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.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library 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.
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Blending satirical humor with genuine horror, contemporary fiction has found a distinctive voice in stories that juxtapose domestic routines and pop culture with supernatural dread. Grady Hendrix made a notable impact on the horror genre with his 2014 debut novel Horrorstör, set inside a haunted Swedish flat-pack furniture superstore, and has since written multiple bestselling novels that re-examine classic horror tropes through relatable social settings.
From suburban book clubs confronting undead threats to teenage friendships tested by demonic possession, his stories ground terrifying scenarios in detailed, humorous, and emotionally resonant realities. His work spans bestselling fiction, award-winning nonfiction on horror literature history, and feature film screenplays.
Born in 1972 in Charleston, South Carolina, Grady Hendrix eventually relocated to New York City, where he established a career as a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter. Before achieving wide recognition for his fiction, he developed a deep knowledge of genre history, which later informed his Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction history of the 1970s and 1980s horror paperback boom, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction. In addition to his novels, Hendrix expanded his creative work into film, writing the screenplays for the horror film Mohawk, set during the War of 1812, and Satanic Panic, which follows a pizza delivery worker confronting wealthy cultists.
His fiction career expanded rapidly as several of his titles were optioned and adapted for screen media, including feature film and television development for My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and How to Sell a Haunted House. By pairing sharp narrative pacing with research-backed subgenre tropes, Hendrix has published a diverse bibliography that includes the heavy metal horror story We Sold Our Souls and the slasher homage The Final Girl Support Group, published on July 13, 2021. His books have reached broad international audiences, selling millions of copies and appearing in over twenty translations.
Hendrix's writing style is characterized by a balance of absurdist wit, nostalgic detail, and intense emotional warmth mixed with body horror. He frequently places ordinary people—such as retail employees, suburban mothers, or teenage best friends—into extraordinary supernatural danger, exploring how personal relationships, grief, and institutional pressures shape human resilience. Whether examining suburban domesticity or corporate consumerism, his narratives treat characters' emotional bonds with sincere gravity while maintaining an irreverent, fast-paced comic tone.
8 books in catalog
Blending satirical humor with genuine horror, contemporary fiction has found a distinctive voice in stories that juxtapose domestic routines and pop culture with supernatural dread. Grady Hendrix made a notable impact on the horror genre with his 2014 debut novel Horrorstör, set inside a haunted Swedish flat-pack furniture superstore, and has since written multiple bestselling novels that re-examine classic horror tropes through relatable social settings.
From suburban book clubs confronting undead threats to teenage friendships tested by demonic possession, his stories ground terrifying scenarios in detailed, humorous, and emotionally resonant realities. His work spans bestselling fiction, award-winning nonfiction on horror literature history, and feature film screenplays.
Born in 1972 in Charleston, South Carolina, Grady Hendrix eventually relocated to New York City, where he established a career as a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter. Before achieving wide recognition for his fiction, he developed a deep knowledge of genre history, which later informed his Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction history of the 1970s and 1980s horror paperback boom, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction. In addition to his novels, Hendrix expanded his creative work into film, writing the screenplays for the horror film Mohawk, set during the War of 1812, and Satanic Panic, which follows a pizza delivery worker confronting wealthy cultists.
His fiction career expanded rapidly as several of his titles were optioned and adapted for screen media, including feature film and television development for My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and How to Sell a Haunted House. By pairing sharp narrative pacing with research-backed subgenre tropes, Hendrix has published a diverse bibliography that includes the heavy metal horror story We Sold Our Souls and the slasher homage The Final Girl Support Group, published on July 13, 2021. His books have reached broad international audiences, selling millions of copies and appearing in over twenty translations.
Hendrix's writing style is characterized by a balance of absurdist wit, nostalgic detail, and intense emotional warmth mixed with body horror. He frequently places ordinary people—such as retail employees, suburban mothers, or teenage best friends—into extraordinary supernatural danger, exploring how personal relationships, grief, and institutional pressures shape human resilience. Whether examining suburban domesticity or corporate consumerism, his narratives treat characters' emotional bonds with sincere gravity while maintaining an irreverent, fast-paced comic tone.
