Wednesday 1st June 2022
18:00 - 19:30 at
Waterstones, Cambridge
WELCOME TO THE FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP
Bestselling author Grady Hendrix (Paperbacks from Hell, My Best Friend's Exorcism) welcomes you to a very special support group, so have a seat, coffee's in the back, and remember there's no cross-talk. Then prepare yourself for a guided tour of the history of murder books and movies, because ever since the invention of the printing press we've been using it to tell stories about killing each other, from bizarro 19th century Jack the Ripper fan fiction, through Psycho, the industry-changing success of Silence of the Lambs, all the way up to today when serial killers have become superheroes. Along the way we'll encounter the agony of primal hamster trauma, the pathos of Garfield the cat, and the magic of deformed monster sons as together we try to figure out what it means that so much of our entertainment is about selling murder for fun.
With an introduction by Tiffani Angus, a senior lecturer in Creative Writing and Publishing at ARU and Director of the Anglia Centre for Science Fiction & Fantasy Society.
Grandy Hendrix is an American author, journalist and screenwriter. His novel Horrorstor – the only novel about a haunted Scandinavian furniture store you'll ever need – has been translated into 14 languages and is being turned into a movie. His novel My Best Friend's Exorcism, about demonic possession, friendship, exorcism, and the Eighties, 'is basically Beaches meets The Exorcist' caused the Wall Street Journal to call him "a national treasure". Stepping into non-fiction, his book Paperbacks from Hell is a history of the horror paperback boom in the Seventies and Eighties, for which he won the Stoker Award.
Tiffani Angus is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University and a Director of the Anglia Centre for Science Fiction & Fantasy. Her mid-2020 debut novel about 400 years in a mysterious English garden, Threading the Labyrinth, was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society and British Science Fiction Association Awards for best novel. She is at work on a nonfiction book about writing sub-genres of SFF/Horror, a short-story collection, and her second novel.
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