Grady Hendrix

 ( 21st-century American Novelists ) 

Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel Horrorstör. He lives in Manhattan, and is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival.

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Life and career Hendrix was born in South Carolina. His parents divorced when he was 13 years old, and he spent much of his time in public libraries. As an adult, he worked in the library of the American Society for Psychical Research before turning to professional writing. Alongside his novels, he has written for numerous media outlets, including Playboy magazine and the New York Post. Prior to its closure in 2008, he was a film critic for the New York Sun.

In 2009, Hendrix attended the Clarion Workshop at the University of California at San Diego.

He has also contributed to Katie Crouch's young adult series The Magnolia League, and his fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Pseudopod.

In 2012, Hendrix co-wrote , a graphic novel/cookbook/memoir with his wife Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey.

In 2014, Quirk Books published his novel, Horrorstör, which was subsequently optioned for a television series by FOX TV. Grady then wrote My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) and the acclaimed non-fiction study Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (2017). He also co-wrote the 2017 motion picture Mohawk with director Ted Geoghegan and the spec script for the horror comedy film Satanic Panic, which was acquired and produced by Fangoria during mid 2018. My Best Friend's Exorcism and Horrorstör have been optioned for film adaptations, while The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group are slated for television adaptations. Hendrix created a one-man show for The Final Girl Support Group to promote the novel, as he found traditional author events boring.

From May 2020 to October 2020, Hendrix hosted his own podcast, Super Scary Haunted Homeschool, which discussed the history of vampires, to promote his book The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

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Bibliography

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Novels

• Satan Loves You (2012) (out of print)
• The White Glove War (2013, The Magnolia League #2, with Katie Crouch)
• Horrorstör (2014, Quirk Books)
• My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016, Quirk Books)
• We Sold Our Souls (2018, Quirk Books)
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020, Quirk Books)
• The Final Girl Support Group (2021, Berkley)
• How to Sell a Haunted House (2023, Berkley)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025, Pan Macmillan)

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Novellas

• Badasstronauts (2022, Jab Books)

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Short stories

• The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu (2010, Strange Horizons)
• The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013, contributor)

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Short story collections

• Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society (2020, JABberwocky Literary Agency)

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Comics

• Li'l Wimmin: A Comic Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (2013, with Ryan Dunlavey)

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Nonfiction books

• (2012, with Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey)
• (2017, Quirk Books)
• These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (2021, Mondo Books)

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Screenplays

• Mohawk (2017, with Ted Geoghegan)
• Satanic Panic (2019)
• The Black Room (TBA)
• Horrorstör (TBA)

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Awards

Horrorstör	2014 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror
	2015 RUSA CODES Reading List	Horror
My Best Friend's Exorcism	2016 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror
	2017 RUSA awards	Horror
We Sold Our Souls	2018 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror
	2018 Shirley Jackson Award	Novel
	2019 Dragon Awards	Horror Novel
	2019 Locus Award	Horror Novel
Paperbacks from Hell	2018 Bram Stoker Award	Non-Fiction
	2017 Goodreads Choice Awards	Non-Fiction
	2018 British Fantasy Award	Non-Fiction
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires	2020 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror
	2021 Lord Ruthven Award	Fiction
	2021 RUSA CODES Reading List	Horror
	2021 Locus Award	Horror Novel
The Final Girl Support Group	2021 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror
	2021 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award	Classic Horror Fiction
	2021 Bram Stoker Award	Novel
	2022 Locus Award	Horror Novel
	2022 Dragon Awards	Horror Novel
How to Sell a Haunted House	2023 Goodreads Choice Awards	Horror
	2023 Bram Stoker Award	Novel
	2024 RUSA CODES Reading List	Horror
	2024 Locus Award	Horror
	2024 British Fantasy Award	August Derleth Award
	2021 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award	Writer of the Year

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