The New York Times Best Seller
A Barnes & Noble Best Fiction Book of 2020
2021 Locus Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
#1 April 2020 LibraryReads Pick
April 2020 Indie Next Pick
Amazon Best Book of April 2020
A Library Journal Editors' Pick for April 2020
The A.V. Club Best Book of April 2020
A POPSUGAR Best Book for Book Clubs 2020
One of Good Housekeeping's 30 of the Scariest Horror Books Ever Written
One of Town & Country's 50 Best Horror Books
"This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good."--Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of
The Other Black Girl
"Ghosts of the past have also inspired one of the most rollicking, addictive novels I've read in years:
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, a tale of housewives battling vampires that is sweetly painful, like hard candy that breaks a tooth."--Danielle Trussoni for
The New York Times Book Review
"A delight...its incisive social commentary and meaningful character development make
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires not just a palatable read for non-horror fans, but a winning one."--US
A Today, 3.5 out of 4 star review
"Funny, gruesome, and wild, this rollicking novel from horror luminary Grady Hendrix is
Desperate Housewives meets
Dracula."--
Esquire "Delightful read that reads like
Dracula set in the '90s American South....Perfect for fans of horror and real-life crime alike."--
Good Housekeeping "The novel is a charming testament to friendships and life's imperfections, with dashes of rot and savagery to earn its keep in horror literature....It's a rollercoaster [that] lands as a vampire story concreted in vileness and Southern charm."--
Fangoria
"[Hendrix] remains excellent at staging page-turning sequences of excitement and anxiety...[and] a master of adding little details that fill in the landscape of his Southern-fried world."--
The A.V. Club "As fun (and as creepy) as the title suggests....This novel will definitely whet your appetite if you're looking for something a bit eccentric and spooky."
--BuzzFeed "This book should be required reading for all Southern women....[It] transports you back to all the best parts of the 1990's while throwing more than enough thrill and chill into the mix."
--Country Living "[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