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Grady Hendrix
American author and journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel Horrorstör.[2][3] He lives in Manhattan, and is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival.[4]
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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.[5] As an adult, he worked in the library of the American Society for Psychical Research before turning to professional writing.[6] 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.[7]
In 2009, Hendrix attended the Clarion Workshop at the University of California at San Diego.[8]
He has also contributed to Katie Crouch's young adult series The Magnolia League, and his fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Pseudopod.[7]
In 2012, Hendrix co-wrote Dirt Candy: A Cookbook, a graphic novel/cookbook/memoir with his wife Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey.[9]
In 2014, Quirk Books published his novel, Horrorstör, which was subsequently optioned for a television series by FOX.[10] 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).[11] He also co-wrote the 2017 motion picture Mohawk with director Ted Geoghegan[12] and the spec script for the horror comedy film Satanic Panic, which was acquired and produced by Fangoria during mid 2018.[13] 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.[13][14][15] Hendrix created a one-man show for The Final Girl Support Group to promote the novel, as he found traditional author events boring.[5]
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.[16]
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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)[17][18]
- My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016, Quirk Books)[19]
- We Sold Our Souls (2018, Quirk Books)
- The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020, Quirk Books)[20][21]
- The Final Girl Support Group (2021, Berkley)[22][23][24]
- How to Sell a Haunted House (2023, Berkley)
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025, Pan Macmillan)
Novellas
- Badasstronauts (2022, Jab Books)[25]
Short stories
- The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu (2010, Strange Horizons)[26]
- The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013, contributor)
Short story collections
- Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society (2020, JABberwocky Literary Agency)
Comics
- Li'l Wimmin: A Comic Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (2013, with Ryan Dunlavey)
Nonfiction books
- Dirt Candy: A Cookbook (2012, with Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey)
- Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (2017, Quirk Books)
- These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (2021, Mondo Books)[27][28][29][30]
Screenplays
- Mohawk (2017, with Ted Geoghegan)
- Satanic Panic (2019)
- The Black Room (TBA)[31]
- Horrorstör (TBA)
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