Keynote with Grady Hendrix

The festival’s highlight will be a keynote and book reading by Grady Hendrix, a best-selling author and screenwriter known for his works in the horror genre.

Date, Saturday, October 19
Location: Arts Center of Kershaw County
810 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020
Time: 5:30

South Carolina: haunted by the Lizard Man and the murderous Bigham Family of Florence, the rumored site of a secret Satanic convent that abducted young women and married them off to the Devil in the 19th century, and a key location in the supposed Satanic conspiracy to take over the Vatican. One of the only states to have a nuclear device dropped on it and survive, and definitely the only state where the governor’s mansion in Columbia once stocked its public pond with alligators. If anywhere knows about the gothic, it’s the Palmetto state. New York Times
bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, will take you on a tour of its haunted swamps and show how the Southern gothic isn’t a quaint literary backwater but a revolutionary movement that stalks the halls of American literature with blood in its teeth and scattering graveyard dirt wherever it goes.


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