Happy Month of Horrors!
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampire by Grady Hendrix is a fun gothic novel to dive into in case you are finding October dull and boring.
“We’re a book club,” Maryellen said. “What are we supposed to do? Read him to death? Use strong language?”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
Desperate Housewives meets The Twilight Zone and it works. In America’s favorite southern town, Charleston, a bunch of upper-middle-class housewives escape monthly into the gory world of true crime books. But crime knocks closer home, when Patricia Campbell, one of the book club members is viciously attacked by her aging neighbor who then dies mysteriously. While Patricia is still comprehending what happened to her, she meets James Harris, the only surviving relative of her dead neighbor. Something is off about him, but Patricia can’t pin it down.
Children start disappearing from poor neighborhoods, and anyone who might suspect James Harris dies inexplicably. Patricia is convinced that James is a vampire but will she be able to prove and will it be too late for her family and friends?
The novel isn’t perfect. Over 100 pages too long, a little racist and sexist at times. Part horror, part comedy, and mostly entertaining.
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