![]() ![]() "That's very closely based on my own grandmother who moved in with us when she couldn't live alone anymore, and while I know it was the right thing to do, I was eight years old and she terrified me. Mary, the grandmother affected by dementia who moves in with her son's family. Hendrix says the one character who really "cut to the bone" was Mrs. Fortunately I've fictionalized everything pretty heavily so no one had too many problems." "This one's set in the neighborhood where I grew up, around the time I graduated from high school, and it's the first time I've had to run a book past my family before publication because so many of our stories wound up in it. ![]() "Getting some blood on the page is the only way I know how to write, so all my books are really personal," he tells me in an email interview. ![]() Grady Hendrix's new novel stars a group of determined women who confront a supernatural threat in their community - and while vampires aren't real (as far as we know), Hendrix says The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires has its roots in his own real life. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Author Grady Hendrix ![]()
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