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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

The instant Sunday Times bestselling horror novel

Grady Hendrix

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English
Tor Nightfire
29 April 2025
At Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, wayward girls, pregnant and shrouded in societal shame, are sent away by their families. In the summer of 1970, 15-year-old Fern, pregnant and alone, joins other girls with similar fates, including Rose, who dreams of commune life with her child, Zinnia, a musician planning a family with her baby's father, and Holly, a mute 14-year-old. Their lives are rigidly controlled until Fern discovers an occult book on witchcraft in the library, empowering the girls for the first time. However, with power comes a price, often paid in blood, as they learn that liberation and destruction are two sides of the same coin, and freedom is never without its sacrifices.
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Imprint:   Tor Nightfire
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 243mm,  Width: 165mm,  Spine: 43mm
Weight:   730g
ISBN:   9781035030873
ISBN 10:   103503087X
Pages:   496
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Grady Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter who owns too many paperbacks and not enough shelves. He's the author of How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and many more, including Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties that won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. (All the paperbacks are for ""research"" and he needs them.) His books have sold over two million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City and will die there, too, probably crushed to death beneath piles of those paperbacks.

Reviews for Witchcraft for Wayward Girls: The instant Sunday Times bestselling horror novel

A chillingly addictive Southern Gothic tale -- <i>Cosmopolitan</i> This book is so twisted and smart . . . As soon as I finished, I wanted to start all over again -- Catriona Ward, author of <i>The Last House on Needless Street</i> and <i>Nowhere Burning</i> There’s spells, there’s witches, and then there’s the magic Grady Hendrix conjures up in this amazing novel -- Stephen Graham Jones, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>I Was a Teenage Slasher</i> A morally complex and genuinely haunting and moving tale. I couldn't put it down once I started -- Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of <i>The Cabin at the End of the World</i> Another nail-biter not to be missed! -- Tananarive Due, author of <i>The Reformatory</i> This is Satan's School for Girls or The Initiation of Sarah . . . horror, social comment and wicked black humour -- Kim Newman, author of <i>Anno Dracula</i> Terrifying, darkly funny, moving, immersive, and deeply relevant – a page-turner that will keep you up until one in the morning -- Simone St. James, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Murder Road</i> Grady Hendrix does it again, only better . . . Enchanting and entertaining -- Alma Katsu, author of <i>The Fervor</i> Full of hexes and heart, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is Hendrix's best novel yet! -- Ronald Malfi, bestselling author of <i>Come with Me</i> Captivating . . . A phenomenal read for witches everywhere! -- Carissa Orlando, author of <i>The September House</i> Portentous and disquieting, it's a book that'll linger like a scar -- Cassandra Khaw, author of <i>Nothing But Blackened Teeth</i> and <i>The Salt Grows Heavy</i> Stunning, full of dread and heartache and unforgettable characters. It’s impossible to read this book and not be touched by it. What a triumph! -- Christopher Golden, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The House of Last Resort</i> and <i>Road of Bones</i> As pacey as it is insightful, and an absolute page-turner into the bargain. I devoured it -- Alison Littlewood, author of <i>The Hidden People</i> Raw, fearless and powerful. I screamed, I sobbed, I devoured every word -- Lindy Ryan, author of <i>Bless Your Heart</i> and <i>Cold Snap</i> A haunted, heartbreaking masterpiece, filled with magic and monsters - human and otherwise. Hendrix has written an unmissable instant horror classic -- Christina Henry, author of <i>The House that Horror Built</i> and <i>Alice</i> A powerful novel filled with rich, complex characters, echoing with dread and hope, and driven by righteous rage. At times I found myself shaking with fury, at other times . . . yes, Grady made me cry again. Beautiful and brilliant -- Tim Lebbon, author of <i>Among the Living</i> Grady Hendrix’s horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre -- <i>The New York Times</i>


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