Golden Hour Literary Society Feb 2025 Meeting

Golden Hour Literary Society Feb 2025 Meeting

Welcome to the Golden Hour Literary Society February 2025 meeting! Join us for a meeting of book lovers at The Greenhouse. Get ready to discuss our mothly read, discover new authors, and share your literary insights with fellow bibliophiles.

All-inclusive ticket packages include:

• a copy of the book ($30 value)
• admission to our limited-space event
• a coffee/cocktail of choice with included tip ($9/$15 value respectively)
• delicious charcuterie ($20 value)
• an invite to join our private book discussion group on the free Bookclubs app

Other package options available.

Spots are limited to 13 people to keep our gatherings intimate.

For this first meeting only, all members will also be gifted a limited edition tote bag from Golden Hour's owner's previous non-profit foray, Sunny's Shared Spines when they pick up their book and other goodies.

We hope to see you at our inaugural GHLS meeting to nosh, sip, and have fun discussing Witchcraft for Wayward Girls.

Refund Policy:

As I need to secure a food order and purchase books ahead of time, I will not be able to offer full refunds or refund the cost of books. However, you are welcome to either send a friend in your place, or I can transfer the value of food & drink to the next meeting you attend. Thanks!

“Superb … a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
There’s power in a book…
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to 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. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about 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.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).

Grady Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, We Sold Our Souls, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and Horrorstör. His books have sold over two million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He also writes nonfiction and his history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, Paperbacks from Hell, received the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Greenhouse, 265 West Peace Road, Sycamore, United States