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  • Something A Little Different
  • Tickets from £13.00 - £15.00
  • Central London
  • Tue, 14th Apr 2020 @ 18:00 - 20:00
  • 18:00 - 20:00

JOIN AUTHOR AND SCREENWRITER GRADY HENDRIX AS HE GUIDES US THROUGH PAPERBACKS FROM HELL!

To celebrate the launch of THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES, Forbidden Planet and Quirk Books invite you to a very special event at The Phoenix Artists’ Club.

On Tuesday 14th April from 6 – 8pm, join author and screenwriter GRADY HENDRIX as he guides us through Paperbacks From Hell.

Tickets cost £15 (concessions £13), including a complimentary copy of THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES, signed by Grady. Take time to have a drink at the bar, speak to Grady his work, and browse our range of other titles, available on the night!

THE SOUTHERN GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES introduces us to Patricia Campbell, whose life has never felt smaller.

Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a good-bye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores.

The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings, they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family, as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighbourhood gossip.

This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighbourhood to take care of his elderly aunt and ends up joining the book club.

James is sensitive and well-read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in twenty years. But there’s something off about him. He doesn’t have a bank account, he doesn’t like going out during the day, and Patricia’s mother-in-law insists that she knew him when she was a girl - an impossibility.

When local children go missing, Patricia and the book club members start to suspect James is more of a Bundy than a Beatnik, but no one outside of the book club believes them. Have they read too many true crime books,

or have they invited a real monster into their homes?

Grady Hendrix is fast becoming the doyen of horror fiction history, spearheading the Paperbacks from Hell/Valencourt re-issues, which publishes facsimile editions of old paperback horror novels with his own introductions. He is also the screenwriter of Mohawk (2017), a horror movie about the War of 1812, and Satanic Panic (2019), a horror movie about a pizza delivery woman battling rich Satanists. He’s one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival, which the New York Times called ‘one of the city’s most valuable events.’

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Ticket Event time Cost
Unreserved Seating (Full Price) 18:00 - 20:00 £15.00
Unreserved Seating (Concession) 18:00 - 20:00 £13.00

Location

Address

1, Phoenix Street, WC2H 8BU

Area

Central London

Nearest Station

Tottenham Court Road (Tube)

Organiser

Phoenix Arts Club

Venue

Phoenix Arts Club

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    A fantastic night with a good mix of traditional and modern. A great evening
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    Amazing experience and definitely will be back 💯🙌🏾
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