Grady Hendrix

Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel Horrorstör. He lives in Manhattan, and is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival.

Life and career

Hendrix was born in South Carolina. His parents divorced when he was 13 years old, and he spent much of his time in public libraries. As an adult, he worked in the library of the American Society for Psychical Research before turning to professional writing. Alongside his novels, he has written for numerous media outlets, including Playboy magazine and the New York Post. Prior to its closure in 2008, he was a film critic for The New York Sun.

In 2009, Hendrix attended the Clarion Workshop at the University of California at San Diego.

He contributed to Katie Crouch's young adult series The Magnolia League, and his fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Pseudopod.

In 2012, Hendrix co-wrote Dirt Candy: A Cookbook, a graphic memoir and cookbook, with Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey.

In 2014, Quirk Books published his novel, Horrorstör, which was subsequently optioned for a television series by Fox. Grady then wrote My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) and Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (2017). He also co-wrote the 2017 motion picture Mohawk with director Ted Geoghegan and the spec script for the horror comedy film Satanic Panic, which was acquired and produced by Fangoria mid-2018. My Best Friend's Exorcism and Horrorstör have been optioned for film adaptations, while The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group are slated for television adaptations.

Hendrix created a one-person show for The Final Girl Support Group to promote the novel instead of traditional author events. From May 2020 to October 2020, Hendrix hosted his own podcast, Super Scary Haunted Homeschool, which discussed the history of vampires, to promote his book The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

Works

Novels

Satan Loves You (2012)

The White Glove War (2013, The Magnolia League #2, with Katie Crouch, Poppy)

Horrorstör (2014, Quirk Books)

My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016, Quirk Books)

We Sold Our Souls (2018, Quirk Books)

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (2020, Quirk Books)

The Final Girl Support Group (2021, Berkley)

How to Sell a Haunted House (2023, Berkley)

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025, Berkley)

Novellas

BadAsstronauts (2022, Jab Books)

Short stories

"The Bright and Shining Parasites of Guiyu" (2010, Strange Horizons)

"Mofongo Knows" (2013, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius edited byJohn Joseph Adams)

Short story collections

Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society (2020, JABberwocky Literary Agency)

Comics

Li'l Wimmin: A Comic Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (2013, with Ryan Dunlavey)

Nonfiction books

Dirt Candy: A Cookbook (2012, with Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey)

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (2017, Quirk Books)

These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (2021, Mondo Books)

Screenplays

Mohawk (2017, with Ted Geoghegan)

Satanic Panic (2019)

The Black Room (TBA)

Horrorstör (TBA)