Witchcraft for Wayward Girls: The instant Sunday Times bestselling horror novel

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At Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, wayward girls, pregnant and shrouded in societal shame, are sent away by their families. In the summer of 1970, 15-year-old Fern, pregnant and alone, joins other girls with similar fates, including Rose, who dreams of commune life with her child, Zinnia, a musician planning a family with her baby's father, and Holly, a mute 14-year-old. Their lives are rigidly controlled until Fern discovers an occult book on witchcraft in the library, empowering the girls for the first time. However, with power comes a price, often paid in blood, as they learn that liberation and destruction are two sides of the same coin, and freedom is never without its sacrifices.

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A chillingly addictive Southern Gothic tale -- Cosmopolitan
This visceral tale of oppression, resistance and consequences provides chilly horrors -- Daily Mail
Superb . . . Hendrixs genius as a horror writer is his ability to develop complex, human-scale emotional arcs . . . At turns frightening, anxiety-producing, infuriating, beautiful and sad, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is a perfect horror for our imperfect age -- New York Times
An engrossing, compelling read -- The Guardian
This book is so twisted and smart . . . As soon as I finished, I wanted to start all over again -- Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street and Nowhere Burning
A devilishly good time -- People Magazine
Theres spells, theres witches, and then theres the magic Grady Hendrix conjures up in this amazing novel -- Stephen Graham Jones,New York Timesbestselling author ofI Was a Teenage Slasher
A morally complex and genuinely haunting and moving tale. I couldn't put it down once I started -- Paul Tremblay,bestselling author ofThe Cabin at the End of the World
Another nail-biter not to be missed! -- Tananarive Due, author ofThe Reformatory
This is Satan's School for Girls or The Initiation of Sarah . . . horror, social comment and wicked black humour -- Kim Newman, author of Anno Dracula
Terrifying, darkly funny, moving, immersive, and deeply relevant a page-turner that will keep you up until one in the morning -- Simone St. James, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Road
Grady Hendrix does it again, only better . . . Enchanting and entertaining -- Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor
Full of hexes and heart, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is Hendrix's best novel yet! -- Ronald Malfi, bestselling author of Come with Me
Captivating . . . A phenomenal read for witches everywhere! -- Carissa Orlando, author ofThe September House
Portentous and disquieting, it's a book that'll linger like a scar -- Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and The Salt Grows Heavy
Stunning, full of dread and heartache and unforgettable characters. Its impossible to read this book and not be touched by it. What a triumph! -- Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Last Resort and Road of Bones
As pacey as it is insightful, and an absolute page-turner into the bargain. I devoured it -- Alison Littlewood, author of The Hidden People
Raw, fearless and powerful. I screamed, I sobbed, I devoured every word -- Lindy Ryan, author of Bless Your Heart and Cold Snap
A haunted, heartbreaking masterpiece, filled with magic and monsters - human and otherwise. Hendrix has written an unmissable instant horror classic -- Christina Henry, author of The House that Horror Built and Alice
A powerful novel filled with rich, complex characters, echoing with dread and hope, and driven by righteous rage. At times I found myself shaking with fury, at other times . . . yes, Grady made me cry again. Beautiful and brilliant -- Tim Lebbon, author of Among the Living

Author Bio

Grady Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter who owns too many paperbacks and not enough shelves. He's the author of How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and many more, including Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties that won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. (All the paperbacks are for "research" and he needs them.) His books have sold over two million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City and will die there, too, probably crushed to death beneath piles of those paperbacks.