THE NINTH CIRCLE

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THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES Grady Hendrix Quirk Having taken on horrific furniture stores in Horrorstör (2014) and a satanic spin on heavy metal in We Sold Our Souls (2018), Grady Hendrix proves he’s able to tap new veins capably with his latest offering, in which a diverse group of middle-aged women do battle with their local suburban vampire. Touted by the advertising as Steel Magnolias meets Dracula, Hendrix takes a bigger page from Salem’s Lot in crafting this more personal tale set in Charleston, South Carolina, where he grew up. This slice of Southern Gothic centres around Patricia Campbell, stuck in a loveless marriage and growing apart from her two teenage children. She fights off boredom by joining a local book club, but also begins to obsess over the arrival…

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