It hasn’t even been published yet but Grady Hendrix‘s (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) new novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires has already been scooped up for adaptation, with Deadline reporting tonight that Patrick Moran’s PKM Productions has picked up the rights to the novel as part of an overall deal inked with Amazon Studios.
The plan is to turn the novel into a series for Amazon.
Deadline details, “The character-driven, supernatural thriller is set in Charleston in the ‘90s and revolves around a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.”
Here’s the full plot rundown for the book:
Housewife Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. 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 murders as they are to discuss marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip. This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighborhood 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.
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 monster into their homes?
Quirk Books will be releasing the novel this coming Spring.
