Adapting the best ‘popcorn’ horror to literature, with Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is a fan of the most entertaining sort of horror films, the kind whose only goal is to make sure the viewer has a good time, with a mixture of humour, action and the occasional gory scene. As an author, he has achieved the rare fear of adapting this genre into literary formats with clockwork precision and efficiency. In all his books, Hendrix takes the best parts of each horror subgenre and combines them with mathematical accuracy to make them addictive. This approach has earned the author and screenwriter Shirley Jackson and Locus award nominations for Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism and We Sold our Souls and has achieved bestseller status with How to Sell a Haunted House and Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Catalan translation published by Obscura, Spanish translation by Minotauro). The latter book is a new release from this year, along with the satire on space exploration Badasstronauts (Minotauro). Conversing with Hendrix will be the journalist, writer and publisher Natàlia Sánchez Plaza.
*Activity with simultaneous translation to spanish.
