Final Girl Support Group

If you were devouring the Goosebumps books in the 90's, I give you Grady Hendrix. Jamie Lee Curtis (who played arguably the most famous Final Girl, Laurie Strode/Halloween) recommends this book, but if that's not enough to go on, this campy, heroic, slasher film of a novel will terrify and delight you. I loved every minute! Recommended By Stacy W., Powells.com

A book that poses the question: what if your favorite slashers were based on real people? by taking a look into the long and short term effects of the trauma associated with being a Final Girl, this novel delves even deeper into what would happen if they continued to be hunted. Can you trust your own already-proven instincts? How does being a Final Girl affect your life and those around you? Fans of the 80s and 90s slasher films will have a blast reading this book that feels like a movie itself.  Recommended By Lauren M, Powells.com

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives… but what happens after?

Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films — movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized — someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.

But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

“The Final Girl Support Group sizzles with action, originality, and a gleaming concept sharp as a scalpel.” Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Pray for morning, wish for speed, and be as quiet as you can, it doesn’t matter — Grady Hendrix’s The Final Girl Support Group already knows where you live and breathe.” Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians

“It’s not necessary to be a fan of slasher movies to enjoy this very clever, gleefully violent, self-aware deconstruction of the genre.” The Guardian

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"The horror master...puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes."-USA Today

A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives...but what happens after?

Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix's latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films--movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she's been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized--someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.

But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction book Paperbacks From Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest nonfiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.