Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Witchcraft for Wayward Girlsis an original Southern Gothic horror fromNew York Timesbestselling author ofHow to Sell a Haunted HouseandThe Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix.

I did an evil thing to be put in here, and Im going to have to do an evil thing to get out.

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And theyre sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, 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. There, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. Rose, a hippie who insists shes going to keep her baby and escape to a commune. Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her babys father. And Holly, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Every moment of their waking day is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know whats 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 its never given freely. Theres always a price to be paid . . . and its usually paid in blood.

Praise forWitchcraft for Wayward Girls

Twisted and smart Catriona Ward, author ofThe Last House on Needless StreetandNowhere Burning

Amazing Stephen Graham Jones,New York Timesbestselling author ofI Was a Teenage Slasher

A morally complex and genuinely haunting and moving tale Paul Tremblay, author ofHorror MovieandThe Cabin at the End of the World