The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix, 2020
A true-crime book club in 1990s Charleston meets a charming newcomer who may be a vampire—and finds the real horror is being dismissed.
Hendrix co-founded the New York Asian Film Festival and has written for Playboy; his novels mix suburban domesticity with grindhouse horror.
Feels like memory, dread and love.
What would you do if you realized your whole life was someone else's idea?
Why do you pretend what we do is nothing?” she asked. “Every day, all the chaos and messiness of life happens and every day we clean it all up. Without us, they would just wallow in filth and disorder and nothing of any consequence would ever get done. Who taught you to sneer at that? I’ll tell you who. Someone who took their mother for granted. Grady Hendrix, 2020
A true-crime book club in 1990s Charleston meets a charming newcomer who may be a vampire—and finds the real horror is being dismissed.
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