Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

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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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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
Grady Hendrixs Witchcraft for Wayward Girls will delight fans new and old with his convincing rendering of characters juggling pregnancy and magic, childhood and adulthood, helplessness and power and of course good and evil. Another nail-biter not to be missed! -- Tananarive Due, author ofThe Reformatory
This is SATANS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS or THE INITIATION OF SARAH... horror, social comment and wicked black humour -- Kim Newman, author of Anno Dracula
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, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Road
Grady Hendrix does it again, only better . . . Enchanting and entertaining -- Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor
Captivating from the start, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls takes readers on an incredible journey exploring female victimization and empowerment . . . that may or may not entail tapping into the dark magic within. A phenomenal read for witches everywhere! -- Carissa Orlando, author ofThe September House
Grady Hendrixs horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre -- The New York Times
Hendrixs book sets the high watermark for horror -- Booklist, Starred Review for How to Sell a Haunted House
A gripping new read from the horror master -- USA Today on How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix tap dances the line between horror and heart. Its terrifying, darkly funny and empathetic with a left turn, a left hook when youre least expecting it. I loved it -- Lauren Beukes,author ofThe Shining Girls on How to Sell a Haunted House
Sizzles with action, originality and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel -- Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries on The Final Girl Support Group

Author Bio

Grady Hendrix writes fiction, also called 'lies', and non-fiction, which people sometimes accidentally pay him for. He is the author of Horrorstr, 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.