Grady Hendrix presents 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls'

Third Place Books is thrilled to welcome Grady Hendrix to the stage at Lake Forest Park for a spectacular, horror filled presentation of his new book ! Tickets are required in advance.

What you need to know:

• Tickets come in multiple tiers (Admit 1 and Admit 2). All tickets come with a copy of the featured book. Books will be available for pickup at the event.
• This event will include a public signing but no time for audience Q&A. Customers may have up to 3 books signed. Grady is happy to personalize and take photos with attendees.
• To ensure meaningful moments with each fan, Grady's signing lines often last late into the night! Access to the signing line ticket will be staggered in the order in which customers check in to the event. Pregnant people, people with mobility issues, or people with small children attending will receive priority access to the signing line.
• Tickets must be purchased through Eventbrite. Pre-order of the book will not grant you access to the event.
• If you are unable to attend the event, your book will be placed on hold at our Lake Forest Park store. You may request to have your book placed on hold at our Ravenna or Seward Park location. Please allow time for transfer.

Copies of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls and other books by Grady Hendrix will be available for purchase at the store.

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Tickets are required in advance. All tickets include a copy of the event's featured book.

"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times

There’s power in a book…

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid...and it’s usually paid in blood.

In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).

Grady Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, We Sold Our Souls, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and Horrorstör. His books have sold over two million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He also writes nonfiction and his history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, Paperbacks from Hell, received the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. (Photo credit: Albert Mitchell)

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