Join us on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 at 6:30 pm at The Historic Artcraft Theatre for an evening with author Grady Hendrix. Grady will give a presentation on the inspiration behind his newest book WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS.

The Wild World of Witchcraft - LIVE!
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 include the book in hardback and admission to the event. Doors to this event will open at 5:30 pm. Snacks and drinks will be available to purchase from concessions for the evening There will not be an Author Q&A at this event. A personalization/photo line will be held after the event. Additional copies of Grady's books will be available for purchase at the event.

If you will not be attending the event, use this link to purchase a signed copy to pick up after the event. If you need your book shipped to you choose priority mail shipping and we will send you a signed copy of the book after January 23rd.

We are pleased to provide accessibility accommodations for this event upon request. To arrange accommodations or request additional information about accommodations for this event please email hello@wildgeesebookshop.com

Publisher Guidelines:

Grady will sign three books including personalizing your copy of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. Additional copies of Grady's books will be available for purchase at the event. There will not be an Author Q&A with this event.

About the book:

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.

About the author:

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.