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Grady Hendrix’s New Horror Novel Mixes Witchcraft With a Terrifying Chapter From His Family’s History: ‘You Could Have a Baby and Never See Them Again’
Grady Hendrix's new book "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" is about witches, but is inspired by dark stories from his family's past.
Given that this story has been an idea in Hendrix’s head for years, there’s kismet that it’s being released amid political turmoil about women’s right to choose, due to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. That, combined with a looming Trump presidency that could put more rights at risk, has created a recent influx of horror storytelling in which a woman’s bodily autonomy is a bigger point of fear than any monster could be. He’s penned screenplays for two films — 2017’s “Mohawk,” which he wrote with Ted Geoghegan, and 2019’s “Satanic Panic” — and he’s currently working on a feature adaptation of his short story “Ankle Snatcher.”
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