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Grady Hendrix

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, 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.

How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror

Read an excerpt and see the cover reveal for the new anthology "Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature", edited by Becky Siegel Spratford

The Best Killer Dolls and Puppets in Books

Grady Hendrix on one of literature's most disturbing traditions.

January 20, 2023 By Grady Hendrix

The Most Ridiculous ahem, Memorable Serial Killers in Literature

Grady Hendrix reads an unhealthy number of murder books. Here are some of the most absurd(ly entertaining).

July 16, 2021 By Grady Hendrix

500 Years of True Crime

Long before In Cold Blood, there was a vast public appetite for sordid tales—and plenty of media ready to feed it.

April 16, 2020 By Grady Hendrix

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