# Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Paperback

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by **Grady Hendrix** (Author)

"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age." - _The New York Times_

**AN INSTANT _NEW YORK TIMES_ AND _USA TODAY_ BESTSELLER**

They were never girls, they were witches . . . .

  
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the 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, frightened, 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 the 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_).

### Author Biography

**Grady Hendrix** is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of _Horrorstör_, _My Best Friend's Exorcism_ (which was adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), _We Sold Our Souls_, and the _New York Times_ bestseller _The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires_ (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction book _Paperbacks from Hell_, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is _These Fists Break Bricks_ _How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World_.

**Number of Pages:** 624

**Dimensions:** 1.37 x 9.13 x 6.22 IN

**Publication Date:** January 14, 2025

**Large Print:** Yes

## Details

- **Price:** 39.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Horror, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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