The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel

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So while I was annoyed with her ungrateful children, I was more annoyed with her for raising ungrateful children. I know I shouldn't judge a book by its title, but The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires got me real good. It sounds like a fun, lighthearted take on slaying vampires, mixed in with some Southern hospitality and book club joviality. And it started out that way. But then it went somewhere else altogether. I truly deeply madly in love with this book! More than five gazillion stars! Somebody has to stop my fingers adding entire books of the author to my nearly collapsing Mount TBR! But I cannot stop with only one book. Can I? Driven to Suicide: James Harris feeds off children and the effect is devastating to their young minds over time, eventually causing them to kill themselves in violent ways. Devil in Plain Sight: James is one of these as Patricia becomes more and more aware of this; it's suggested, in fact, that he used the boundaries of polite society to achieve this, rather than his actual vampiric powers.

Don’t worry, I won’t ruin anything for you but this is definitely one of those hard-to-put-down horror novels. There are also many scenes and situations that will make you cringe, look away, re-read, and just make you wince. The way Hendrix fleshes these certain situations out is so horrific that you’ll be on the edge of your seat leading to a beyond satisfying conclusion. The buildup and momentum going into the ending were fantastic! This is not one of Hendrix’s lighter books. This is hardcore, graphic, physically and psychologically violent, gory horror. The gory parts are hard to read and the psychological horror even tougher. There are some funny moments but it’s not humor and it sure isn’t romance. Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. You can listen to free, amazing, and did I mention free podcasts of his fiction on Pseudopod. He also does a podcast called Super Scary Haunted Homeschool.

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D'Alessandro, Anthony (2020-06-15). "New Republic Pictures Acquires Grady Hendrix's Novel 'Horrorstör' ". Deadline . Retrieved 2020-08-04. Patricia's next door neighbor dies. A friend disappears. Local school children start to go missing. All of this begins when James comes to town. Is there a connection? Patricia seems to think so! this was, to me, the least-scary of his books so far, although it is possible that i would have felt differently about it had i read it at any time other than mid-pandemic, my queens neighborhood surrounded by several of the hardest-hit zip codes. it's hard to be affected by horror while living in a nightmare. I am not sure what the appropriate gesture is to make toward the family of the woman who bit off your ear, but if you felt absolutely compelled, I certainly wouldn’t take food.”

But it wasn't just the gore that turned me off. I also found this book to be overwritten. There were moments when it was supposed to be serious, like with the women rallying together or the bad guy taking a last stand, and I just cringed at the cheesy dialog. It sounded so fake to me during what should've been emotionally pivotal moments. Patricia enlists the help of her friends, and her mother in law’s caregiver, Mrs. Greene to begin an investigation of their own.the stories themselves are not played for laffs. that’s not to say there’s never anything funny in them, but they’re not the campy adventures the covers might lead you to expect.

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" by Grady Hendrix is a creative mix of Horror and Southern Fiction! This book had me at the description of it being a cross between Fried Green Tomatoes, Steel Magnolias and Dracula! What’s not to love about that? And he's the screenwriter behind Mohawk, which is probably the only horror movie about the War of 1812 and Satanic Panic. The closer Patricia gets to James Harris, the more she notices that something's not quite right with him.In every book we read, no one ever thought anything bad was happening until it was too late. This is where we live, it’s where our children live, it’s our home. Don’t you want to do absolutely everything you can to keep it safe?”