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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls – LIVE!

Are witches old ladies who live in candy houses and eat children? Are they naked feminists dancing in a circle and celebrating the moon? Are they riding broomsticks to a black mass where they'll worship Satan, or being dragged to a gallows where they'll be hung after false accusations?

Join bestselling author Grady Hendrix to celebrate his latest book, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by taking a wild flight into the blackest night as we investigate the world of witchcraft in books and movies and witness an army of broomstick-brandishing, curse-hurling, baby-eating, world-renouncing, unkillable, unstoppable, unbeatable witches!

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including How to Sell a Haunted House, My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, Horrorstor, and many more.

About the book:

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, 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. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists she's going to keep her baby and escape to a commune.

Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby's father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Every moment of their waking day 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.

'This book is so twisted and smart . . . As soon as I finished, I wanted to start all over again' – Catriona Ward

'A morally complex and genuinely haunting and moving tale. I couldn't put it down once I started' – Paul Tremblay