Grady Hendrix Books in Order
Grady Hendrix has written 17 books, published between 2011 and 2025. The first book is Satan Loves You (2011) and the newest is Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 17
- Published
- 2011–2025
- Confirmed
- 13 of 17 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,602 in 12 of 17 books
- Reading time
- 60–90 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,602 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 17 titles with a page count on record.
Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker and screenwriter who lives in Manhattan and co-founded the New York Asian Film Festival. Horrorstör (2014) is the best-selling novel, and My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) and Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025) are also listed. Subjects include horror, the occult, exorcism, demonic possession, teenage girls and heavy metal. The earliest title in the catalogue is Satan Loves You (2011).
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is among Grady Hendrix's novels, combining horror with humor and addressing themes of friendship, family, and resilience.
How many Grady Hendrix books are there?
Grady Hendrix has 17 books, released between 2011 and 2025.
Grady Hendrix Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 17 Grady Hendrix books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Satan Loves You2011 · confirmed 3/42011–3/4
- 2BadAsstronauts2012 · 166 pages · confirmed 3/420121663/4
- 3Dirt Candy2012 · confirmed 2/42012–2/4
- 4Occupy Space2012 · 122 pages · confirmed 3/420121223/4
- 52012–2/4
- 6Li'l Wimmin2013 · 64 pages · confirmed 3/42013643/4
- 7Horrorstör2014 · 240 pages · confirmed 3/420142403/4
- 8My Best Friend's Exorcism2016 · 330 pages · confirmed 2/420163302/4
- 9Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction2017 · 254 pages · confirmed 3/420172543/4
- 10We Sold Our Souls2018 · 335 pages · confirmed 2/420183352/4
- 11The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires2020 · 408 pages · confirmed 3/420204083/4
- 12Dead Leprechauns & Devil Cats: Strange Tales of the White Street Society2020 · confirmed 3/42020–3/4
- 13These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World2021 · 432 pages · confirmed 3/420214323/4
- 14The Final Girl Support Group2021 · 342 pages · confirmed 3/420213423/4
- 15How to Sell a Haunted House2023 · 413 pages · confirmed 3/420234133/4
- 162025–4/4
- 17Witchcraft for Wayward Girls2025 · 496 pages · confirmed 3/420254963/4
Grady Hendrix books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
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1 bookShivers Collection
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
15 books15 Grady Hendrix titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Grady Hendrix books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 17 Grady Hendrix books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Grady Hendrix
Start with Satan Loves You (2011), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Grady Hendrix book?
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025) is the newest Grady Hendrix book released so far.
Is there a new Grady Hendrix book coming?
No next Grady Hendrix book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Grady Hendrix has won
Wikidata records 1 award and 7 nominations for Grady Hendrix. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction2017Won
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel2024Shortlistedfor How to Sell a Haunted House
- August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel2024Shortlistedfor How to Sell a Haunted House
- Bram Stoker Award for Novel2023Shortlistedfor How to Sell a Haunted House
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel2022Shortlistedfor The Final Girl Support Group
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel2021Shortlistedfor The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
- Bram Stoker Award for Novel2021Shortlistedfor The Final Girl Support Group
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel2019Shortlistedfor We Sold Our Souls
Grady Hendrix at a glance
- Still publishing
- Grady Hendrix published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Grady Hendrix books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,602 pages across the 12 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 332 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Grady Hendrix books, 10 of 17, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 1 of the 17 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and 13 in at least three.
What the Grady Hendrix books are about
8 of the 17 Grady Hendrix books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 6 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Horror 6 of 8 books
- Thrillers 6 of 8 books
- Supernatural 2 of 8 books
- Paranormal fiction 2 of 8 books