August, 1986—After a summer that tested their friendships, five thirteen-year-old scouts walk into the woods of South Carolina for a hike that their leader hopes will bring the boys together. But on the steep and winding Obituary Trail, they find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when they encounter the most mysterious and dangerous creature of American myth and legend, in this searing coming-of-age novel from Grady Hendrix.
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Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter who owns too many paperbacks and not enough shelves. He’s the author of How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, and many more, including Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties that won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. (All the paperbacks are for “research” and he needs them.) His books have sold over two million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City and will die there, too, probably crushed to death beneath piles of those paperbacks.
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