The Wild World of Witchcraft LIVE with Grady Hendrix

Are witches old ladies who live in candy houses and eat children? Are they naked maidens dancing in a circle and celebrating the moon? Are they riding broomsticks to a black mass where they’ll worship Satan, or being dragged to a gallows where they’ll be hung after false accusations? Join bestselling author Grady Hendrix to celebrate his latest book, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by taking a wild flight into the blackest night as we investigate the world of witchcraft in books and movies and witness an army of broomstick-brandishing, curse-hurling, baby-eating, world-renouncing, unkillable, unstoppable, unbeatable witches!

Tickets are $35 (plus taxes & fees) and include a hardcover copy of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, admission to the event, and access to the signing line after the author talk. This is a one-hour solo author talk with no Q&A there will be a booksigning and photo opportunity following the talk.

For those interested in the signing line, please note that you will be allowed 3 books total. One copy of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls you will receive at the event, and up to 2 other books either brought from home or purchased at the event.

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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.

Set in Florida in the 1970s, Grady Hendrix's newest novel follows five young women in a home for unwed mothers who find a guide to witchcraft.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Hanesbrands Theatre, 209 North Spruce Street, Winston-Salem, United States