https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/austin/rss/search?query=Hendrix%2C%20Grady%2C&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeFri, 10 Apr 2026 12:47:27 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2240934https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2240934Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2240934067BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593548981/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .

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, to 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, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the 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.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10492188https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10492188Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10492188980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593549001/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2241870https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2241870Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2241870067LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593947029/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times
"Ingenious."-The Washington Post
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
 
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
 
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
 
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
 
Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C7459796https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C7459796Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7459796980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593201282/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2183048https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2183048Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2183048067BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593201268/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1050813https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1050813Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1050813067BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594745263/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hilarious and terrifying haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting: a furniture superstore.
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
 
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination.]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1665454https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1665454Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1665454980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594747274/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2122780https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2122780Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2122780067EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781683691440/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=“This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good.”—Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl

Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town.
Bonus features:
   • Reading group guide for book clubs
   • Hand-drawn map of Mt. Pleasant
   • Annotated true-crime reading list by Grady Hendrix
   • And more!
 
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind—and Patricia has already invited him in. 
 
Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia’s life and try to take everything she took for granted—including the book club—but she won’t surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5038989https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5038989Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5038989980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781683691440/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2254801https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2254801Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2254801067BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593201244/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2273763https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2273763Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2273763067BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781683692515/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1581341https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1581341Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1581341067BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594748622/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=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.]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5821301https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5821301Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5821301980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593201251/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s.
 
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate!
Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable volume dishes on familiar authors like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, plus many more who’ve faded into obscurity.
Also included are recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3217006https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3217006Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3217006980EBOOKThe Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fictionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594749827/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=Soon to be a major motion picture.
This ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION features TONS of TOTALLY AWESOME ’80s bonus materials—including Satanic Panic educational pamphlets, a do-it-yourself exorcism cheat sheet, a Spotify playlist of awesome ’80s tunes, animated cover artwork, and much more!

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?]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2504950https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2504950Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2504950980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594748639/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1862404https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1862404Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1862404067BKThe Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fictionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594749810/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19416543https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19416543Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19416543981EAUDIOBOOKitahttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788852162060/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19415391https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19415391Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19415391981EAUDIOBOOKitahttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788852161742/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19360853https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C19360853Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/19360853981EAUDIOBOOKitahttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9788852157813/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14795402https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14795402Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14795402981EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781705063446/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14992489https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14992489Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14992489981EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781625675576/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C15415676https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C15415676Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/15415676981EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781736780015/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=When a Hollywood studio released Five Fingers of Death to thrill-seeking Times Square moviegoers in 1973, only a handful of Black and Asian audience members knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle's Claw. That changed overnight as Five Fingers
kicked off a kung fu craze that would earn millions at the box office, send TV ratings soaring, influence the birth of hip hop, reshape the style of action we see in movies today, and introduce America to some of the biggest non-white stars to ever hit motion picture screens.
This book tells the spine-shattering story of how these films of fury came to America and raised hell until greed, infomercials, and racist fearmongering shut them down.
It's about an 11-year-old boy who not only created the first fan edit but somehow turned it into a worldwide moneymaker, CIA agents secretly funding a karate movie, the New York Times fabricating a fear campaign about black "karate gangs" out to kill white people, the
history of black martial arts in America, the death of Bruce Lee and the onslaught of imitators that followed, and how a fight that started in Japanese internment camps during World War II ended in a ninja movie some 40 years later.
It's a battle for recognition and respect that started a long, long time ago and continues to this day in movies like The Matrix, Kill Bill, and Black Panther. Here, for the first time, is the full uncensored story.]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5688614https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5688614Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5688614980EAUDIOBOOKHow Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the Worldenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781705017524/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14591448https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C14591448Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/14591448981EAUDIOBOOKA Horror Anthologyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781736780022/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13774043https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13774043Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13774043981EBOOKStrange Tales of the White Street Societyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781625675255/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=