“I write horror movies and books, but there’s nothing more horrific than being a writer. This talk will cover why work is the one thing so awful they have to pay you money to do it, why you shouldn’t become a writer because frankly I don’t need the competition, and how an encounter with Nazi leprechauns changed my life.”

Grady Hendrix is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, The Final Girl Support Group, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, Horrorstör, and the award-winning history of the horror paperback boom, Paperbacks from Hell. He is also the screenwriter of Mohawk (2017) and Satanic Panic (2019).