Exciting news for all the vampire fans out there—a TV adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES is in the works at HBO.

Deadline shared the news today that the New York Times bestselling novel, previously in development at Amazon, has moved to HBO. Grady Hendrix will be on both the writing and the executive production team, alongside Danny McBride and Edi Patterson.

THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES published back in 2020, and immediately made it onto the NYT and USA Today bestseller lists. It’s also been recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, the New York Public Library, Booklist, Goodreads, and more.

The novel follows a tight-knit women’s book club in Charleston, SC, whose routine is upended when local children start going missing after a mysterious but handsome new arrival to the neighborhood. As the book club members begin to investigate further, the true monster emerges—and he’s far more terrifying than any serial killer they’ve ever read about.

Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of over a dozen books, including How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and many more. His history of the horror paperback boom of the ’70s and ’80s, Paperbacks from Hell, won the Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction. His books have been translated into 23 languages and sold over a million copies, and My Best Friend’s Exorcism has already been adapted for film by Prime Video.