Grady Hendrix
Bio
Grady Hendrix writes fiction, also called "lies," and he writes non-fiction, which people sometimes accidentally pay him for. He is the author of Horrorstör, the only novel about a haunted Scandinavian furniture store you'll ever need. It has been translated into 14 languages and is being turned into a movie. His novel My Best Friend's Exorcism, is set in his hometown and is all about demonic possession, friendship, exorcism, and the Eighties — it’s basically Beaches meets The Exorcist and it caused the Wall Street Journal to call him "a national treasure" and received rave reviews from everyone from Kirkus to Southern Living. Surprisingly, this is still not enough for him to earn his mother’s love.
Still trying to prove himself to his family, he also wrote Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom in the Seventies and Eighties. It was so popular it won a Stoker Award, and while you may not know what that is, trust me when I say that it is a big, big deal that gets Grady 20% off all purchases at the Franklin Mint. His next novel was We Sold Our Souls, a heavy metal take on the Faust legend, which hit bookstores in 2018 and got selected as one of the best books of 2018 by Library Journal, the Chicago Public library, and, finally, his mom. It’s also one of Locus’s recommended novels of 2018 and earned him an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books that makes him sound like some kind of smart person or something. He’s not.
Desperate for his mother to love him more than his sisters, his next book was the New York Times bestseller, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, once again set in the neighborhood where he grew up. Then he wrote his best-selling ode to slasher movies, The Final Girl Support Group, followed by one more book set in his old neighborhood, How To Sell a Haunted House. At this point, he is not allowed to write any more books set in Charleston or he has to start paying Charleston a licensing fee.