Grady Hendrix

2 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Grady Hendrix

From the introduction to the essay: Grady Hendrix began his career as a horror novelist leaning into parody and humor, but over the years, while he has found ways to continue to incorporate humor, his novels have gotten progressively more serious and darker. Hendrix’s stories feature a strong, often nostalgic sense of place and even stronger female protagonists overcoming dangerous, supernatural events that arise from what readers can easily identify as mundane situations.

2 months ago | caffeinatedbookreviewer.com | Grady Hendrix

7th Feb In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, the author explores witchcraft and the horrors young women faced when they got in the family way 70s and end up spending time away from their loved ones at the Wayward Girls home. The horror elements were as much about what happened to these young girls as it was the witch they encounter.

2 months ago | audiofilemagazine.com | Grady Hendrix

by | Read by Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber, Sara Morsey Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber, and Sara Morsey's gripping narrations bring this story to life. In 1970s Florida, 15-year-old Fern is sent to Wellwood Home, a facility for unwed mothers. Controlled by strict adults, the girls form bonds amid their struggles. When a librarian introduces Fern to a book on witchcraft, the girls discover an opportunity to reclaim their power--at a price.

2 months ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Maren Longbella |Grady Hendrix

Childbirth is a beautiful thing — bringing life into the world, and all that — but it’s also scary as heck and pretty gross. Combine that with the dark arts, as Grady Hendrix does in “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls,” and you’ve got the makings of a fantastic body horror novel. Actually, it’s so much more than that. Hendrix is a wizard at mixing together tropes of terror in thought-provoking ways — with no small amount of humor thrown in — that always exceed the sum of their parts.

Jan 17, 2025 | bookreporter.com | Grady Hendrix

Grady Hendrix has developed quite a reputation for inventive supernatural tales with the right amount of tongue-in-cheek humor. That said, his latest release may be his best written and most serious literary horror novel yet. The primary characters are a group of rather snarky pregnant young women who are being housed under the roof of a home for wayward girls during the sweltering Florida summer of 1970.