The Final Girl Support Group

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorsto r, My Best Friend s Exorcism (which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.

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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.

EXPORT EDITIONRAPIDLY GROWING POPULARITY AND FANBASE, this is a fabulous opportunity for Berkley to pick up a hot and trending author, as Hendrix just made the New York Times bestseller list for the first time with his most recent novel, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (which was also an Indie Next Pick)HORROR IS ON THE RISE, in film and fiction, and this book is a clever homage to the women of horror, especially as portrayed in the slasher flicks of the '80s and '90s, like Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and ScreamA CULT FOLLOWING has developed for Grady Hendrix and his high-concept, clever horror novels and his constant championing of horror fiction as the author of nonfiction books and articles on the subjectENGAGES ACTIVELY WITH FANS, with over 12k Twitter followers and a unique style of book promotion which includes an hour-long one-man show designed around each book which he performs at his readingsSTRONG CROSSOVER POTENTIAL due to author's signature blend of horror and thrillerMULTIPLE TELEVISION AND FILM PROJECTS in the works based on this author's novelsWE OWN ANOTHER BOOK FROM THIS AUTHOR which we bought in a hotly contested auction