How To Sell A Haunted House (Hardcover)

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When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.

Mostly, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. But she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.

Some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…

Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).

Praise for How To Sell a Haunted House:

“How To Sell a Haunted House is another Southern Gothic Horror Comedy classic from Grady Hendrix…This clever, creepy, rollicking book will tug at your horror and heart strings.”—Paul Tremblay, Author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club

“Take a deep breath before you start How to Sell A Haunted House, because you won’t be able to breathe until it’s over. Haunted spaces, creepy puppets, family secrets, and emotional trauma are all meticulously pieced together to create a story that won’t just get under your skin —it’ll tunnel down to your bones. This book is a missile designed to obliterate you emotionally and absolutely annihilate you with terror. And let me tell you, Grady Hendrix does not miss.”—Mallory O’Meara, National bestselling author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon

“With his trademark charm and ingenuity, Hendrix upends the haunted house story. Chilling, surprising, and at times downright frightening, How to Sell a Haunted House is ultimately about how we’re all haunted by our families and the lengths to which we must go to make peace with the past.”—Alma Katsu, Author of The Fervor and The Hunger

Praise for The Final Girl Support Group:

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

With The Final Girl Support Group Grady Hendrix transforms a horror trope into something bloody original. An incisive examination of society’s obsession with violence against women that simultaneously honours and roasts the slasher genre with equal prowess. Wildly entertaining and clever as hell. -Rachel Harrison

Pray for morning, wish for speed, and be as quiet as you can, it doesn’t matter — Grady’s Hendrix’s Final Girl Support Group already knows where you live and breathe. - Stephen Graham Jones

Take slasher movie adoration, critique, and satire, mix with compelling, flawed characters and neck-breaking plot twists, and drop it all into an industrial blender with large blades. Voilà, you now have Grady’s maniacally clever and compulsively readable The Final Girl Support Group. - Paul Tremblay

The Final Girl Support Group is perfect for anyone who loves old slasher movies and, oddly enough, anyone who hates them. Grady Hendrix has somehow crafted both an homage to B-horror schlock and a clever dissection of the genre, all delivered in the form of one long breathless chase punctuated by both unpredictable twists and thoughtful insight. - David Wong, author of John Dies at the End

… a (bloody) valentine to the slasher franchises of the VHS era, but also a smart novel about survivor guilt and the concept of the enduring heroine. - Kim Newman, author of Anno Dracula

The Final Girl Support Group is funny, scary, and a roaring good time. Grady Hendrix puts his own spin on Final Girls and I loved it. His unique voice should not be missed by those who enjoy horror with a big dose of sarcasm and humour. - Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife

Grady Hendrix’s canny new novel, The Final Girl Support Group, gathers all the tropes and iconography of a decade’s worth of slasher movies, throws them into a blender with much more wit and intelligence than any of those movies displayed, in a truly original, compelling, suspenseful tour de force… with a knowing wink. Hendrix has a rare, unique voice in a genre sorely in need of more! - Mick Garris, writer, director (The Stand, Bag of Bones, The Shining miniseries)

The Final Girl Support Group is a deft examination of how our culture’s obsession with misogynistic violence destroys the lives of women and how those women are able to keep fighting and living after unthinkable trauma. The beating heart of this book is empathy and it’s set into a lightning-paced, vicious thriller. Reading it was a catharsis. Absolutely unmissable. Horror fans… you’ve never read a slasher like this. - Mallory O’Meara, bestselling author of The Lady From the Black Lagoon

A crazy emotional roller coaster ride that took me right back to 1980, but it needs a warning label: may cause severe anxiety, suggest reading with CBD and a glass of wine. Adrienne King, actress, artist, Friday the 13th’s 1st Final Girl