The Final Girl Support Group: Adrienne King narrates Grady Hendrix audiobook

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Author Grady Hendrix's latest novel The Final Girl Support Group reaches store shelves on next Tuesday, July 13th, and copies of the hardcover can be pre-ordered at THIS LINK, or you can pick up the audiobook HERE. That audiobook will be a special treat for horror fans, because it happens to be narrated by someone who achieved genre icon status by being a final girl: the original Friday the 13th's Adrienne King!

Hendrix announced King's involvement on Twitter: 

I could NOT be more excited! Adrienne King, the first final girl in the first Friday the 13th movie, is the narrator of the FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP audiobook. @AdrienneKing13 has been a huge supporter of my book and I'm honored to have her on board.https://t.co/uO54mC7B5T pic.twitter.com/jE4ZsI5W3k

— Grady Hendrix (@grady_hendrix) July 8, 2021

The opening of FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2 casually kills off Adrienne King, the final girl from PART 1, and ever since I saw it in 1981 I wanted to write her a happier ending. 40 years later, Adrienne King is the Final Girl Support Group audiobook narrator!https://t.co/ElLybOwrSB pic.twitter.com/1tpzJ0vezA

— Grady Hendrix (@grady_hendrix) July 8, 2021

The Final Girl Support Group has the following description: 

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives… but what happens after?

Like his best-selling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chainsaws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films – movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Lynette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized – someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.

But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up. 

It was announced back in November that Annapurna has picked up the rights to produce a television series based on the novel. Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, co-creators of ABC's legal drama series The Fix, are writing the pilot script, and Hendrix will be executive producing the show with Annapurna's Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, and Patrick Chu, as well as Aperture Entertainment's Adam Goldworm.

In addition to his novels, Hendrix has also written the screenplays for Satanic Panic (watch it HERE) and Mohawk (watch that one HERE).