My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel

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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller. The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries-and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question- Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil

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One of Town & Countrys 50 Best Horror Books

National treasureGrady Hendrixfollows his classic account of a haunted IKEA-like furniture showroom, Horrorstor (2014), with a nostalgia-soaked ghost story, My Best Friends Exorcism.The Wall Street Journal

Take The Exorcist, add some hair spray and wine coolers, and enroll it in high school in 1988 thatll give you My Best Friends Exorcism...Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying.Minnesota Public Radio

Clever, heartfelt, and get-under-your-skin unnerving.Fangoria

A touching story of high school friendship and, well, demonic possession.Bloody Disgusting

Terrific...Sharply written...[My Best Friends Exorcism] makes a convincing case for [Hendrixs] powers as a sharp observer of human behavior, filtered through a fun genre conceit that doesnt skimp on the spookyor the bodily fluids.The A.V. Club

My Best Friends Exorcism is perfectly spooky, catty fun while simultaneously bringing forth a greater message about friendship, religion, self-image, and the undeniable power of Phil Collins.Collider

Think Mean Girls with demonic possession, set in 1988 Charleston. Its funny, its heart-wrenching, its even a little spiritual, in a very strange way.Southern Living magazine

The perfect mix of '80s nostalgia and scares.POPSUGAR

My Best Friends Exorcism has the same throwback vibes [as Stranger Things] and a vintage-looking cover to boot.Readers Digest

This book packs all the magic of a summer horror flick.Bustle

If youre looking for a good summer book, something for the beach or the back porch that wont insult your intelligence, one thats tense and sometimes scary and sometimes funny, with characters you may even come to like and admire as they come of age, keep My Best Friends Exorcism in mind.SFFWorld

More praise for Grady Hendrix:
Pure, demented delight.The New York Times Book Review, on Paperbacks from Hell

Horrorstr delivers a crisp terror-tale...[and] Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror.The Washington Post, on Horrorstr

Hendrixs darkest novel yet will leave readers begging for an encore.Booklist, starred review, on We Sold Our Souls

A true appreciation of the genre.Los Angeles Times, on Paperbacks from Hell

An inventive, hilarious haunted house tale.Bustle, on Horrorstr

A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller.CNET, on We Sold Our Souls

Author Bio

Grady Hendrixis an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author ofHorrorst r,My Best Friend's Exorcism,We Sold Our Souls, and theNew York TimesbestsellingThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, which is being adapted into a series by Amazon Studios. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction book,Paperbacks from Hell,a history of the horror paperback boom of the '70s and '80s.