THE INSTANT
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VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021
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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.