The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

by Grady Hendrix

The Hillside Stranglers

“No one likes their children,” Maryellen said. “We love them to death, but we don’t like them.”

“They stabbed Rosemary LaBianca forty-one times. What do you think that feels like? I mean, I think you feel every single one of them, don’t you?”

“You’d rather get stabbed forty-one times than ruin the curb appeal of your home?” Maryellen asked. “Yes,” Grace said.

“A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one. But if you’re happy just doing what you’re told and reading what other people think you should read, then don’t let me stop you. I just find it sad.”

The Bridges of Madison County?”

She thought about Bluebeard where the bride was told not to look behind a certain door by her husband and of course she did and discovered the corpses of his previous brides.