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VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, & wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to & slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, & avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade & the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre 22 years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other actual final girls & their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting & Lynnette's worst fears are realized--someone knows about the group & is determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.But the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, & no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.°°°Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist & screenwriter living in NYC. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which was adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, & the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies & eighties, & his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America & Changed the World. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick “The horror master...puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”- USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times , Oprah Daily , Time, USA Today , The Philadelphia Inquirer , CNN, LitHub , BookRiot , Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives...but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , A Nightmare on Elm Street , and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick The horror masterputs his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.- USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times , Oprah Daily , Time, USA Today , The Philadelphia Inquirer , CNN, LitHub , BookRiot , Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing#160;when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their livesbut what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrixs latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From#160;chain#160;saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror filmsmovies like The Texas#160;Chainsaw Massacre , A#160;Nightmare on Elm Street , and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, shes been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realizedsomeone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. #160; But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up "A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious, a victim and a hero. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other actual final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realized--someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again. But the thing about these final girls is that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife . . . they will never, ever give up"-- Provided by publisher