How long does it take to read The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires?
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix takes about 7 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2020. 422 pages, about 116,050 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this '90s-set horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town, perfect for murderinos and fans of Stephen King. Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind—and Patricia has already invited him in. Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia’s life and try to take everything she took for granted—including the book club—but she won’t surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.
Subjects: Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Fiction, horror, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy
