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The Final Girl Support Group

by Grady Hendrix
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A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.
In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her?
Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. 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, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.
But the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.
"Sizzles with action, originality and a gleaming concept as sharp as a scalpel." CHARLAINE HARRIS
"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
"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
Praise for The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
"[A] clever, addictive vampire thriller This powerful, eclectic novel both pays homage to the literary vampire canon and stands singularly within it." Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Hendrix cleverly sprinkles in nods to well-established vampire lore, and the fact that he's a master at conjuring heady 1990s nostalgia is just the icing on what is his best book yet. Fans of smart horror will sink their teeth into this one." Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Hendrix has masterfully blended the disaffected housewife trope with a terrifying vampire tale, and the anxiety and tension are palpable...a cheeky, spot-on pick for book clubs." Booklist, starred review

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    October 1, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781004055951
      • File size: 401081 KB
      • Duration: 13:55:35

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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 26, 2021
      Hendrix (The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires) delivers a wildly entertaining romp through the conventions of horror’s slasher film subgenre. The novel’s title refers to a Los Angeles–based therapeutic support group for six “final girls”—survivors of mass-murderer rampages whose experiences inspired the splatter-film franchises that saturated horror cinema in the 1980s and ’90s, earning them minor celebrity. When one of the six is murdered decades after she escaped her assailant, and others come under violent assault, Lynnette Tarkington—herself a survivor of the Silent Night Slayings of 1988—realizes that someone is trying to orchestrate an extravagant final girl finale. But is the killer a garden-variety homicidal maniac, an unhinged slasher-film superfan, or someone more intimately familiar with their group? Hendrix masterfully evokes the paranoid existences of his diverse cast in the aftermath of their traumatic ordeals, and he so explicitly details the massacres and fictional film sagas that grew out of them that readers may believe them to be real. The result is a wonderfully suspenseful and darkly comic novel that cleverly subverts popular culture. Horror fans will be wowed. Agent: Joshua Bilmes, JABberwocky Literary.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This darkly humorous horror story is narrated by Adrienne King, who played the original "final girl" in the movie FRIDAY THE 13TH. Six women comprise the Final Girl Support Group after surviving the kind of real-life horrors that inspired classic slasher films. Now someone is aiming to kill them off for good. King's deep, raspy voice amps up the chills in this suspenseful, violent story. While her narration can be a bit slow for the fast-paced plot, King's performance channels final girl Lynnette, who tells the story. While listeners may find the excerpts from news clippings and police reports between the chapters confusing at times, King fully delivers the creepiness factor and captures the anxiety-filled cast. V.T.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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