The Bookshop Recommends: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires is a fierce, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt blend of horror and Southern domestic drama. Set in a quiet Charleston suburb in the 1990s, the novel follows a group of housewives whose true-crime book club becomes the unlikely frontline against a charming but monstrous intruder. Beneath the vampire lore lies a sharp, emotionally charged critique of gender roles, racism, and the cost of being ignored. With wit, gore, and grit, Hendrix crafts a story that’s as much about female resilience and friendship as it is about slaying the literal and metaphorical monsters among us.