We Sold Our Souls

Grady Hendrix, horror writer & author of Paperbacks from Hell & My Best Friend's Exorcism, is back with his most electrifying novel yet. 

In the 1990s, heavy metal band Durt Wurk was poised for breakout success - but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career & rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in obscurity.

Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. She was lead guitarist of Koffin & never recovered from Terry leaving the band. Two decades after the falllout, Kris works as the night manager of a Best Western - she's tired, broke, & unhappy. Everything changes when a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, & she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band.

Kris hits the road, hoping to reunite with the rest of her bandmates & confront the man who ruined her life. It's a journey that will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a celebrity rehab center to a music festival from hell. A furious power ballad about never giving up, even in the face of overwhelming odds, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, pill-popping, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul...where only a lone girl with a guitar can save us all.

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Nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel 

A 2019 Locus Award finalist for Best Horror Novel

An NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour Pick

An io9 2018 Fall Preview Pick

A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist

“A good, creepy, music-tinged thriller.” — CNET

“The quintessential horror-metal novel for our times.” — Los Angeles Review of Books

“Kickass, horrifying, & smart as hell. It certainly earns my two horns up.” — Dread Central