Ever wonder what happens to those Final Girls? After the cops eliminate them as suspects, after the press releases their brace-faced, bad-hair-day photos. For Lynette Tarkington, it's been a support group with five other final girls. Close to twenty years. Today's the last day for group, and maybe the final day for all of them, because someone's been planning a nasty surprise for a long time.

New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix's novels include Horrorstör, My
Best Friend's Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, and The Southern Book Club's Guide to
Slaying Vampires. He's also the author of Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the
horror paperback boom of the Seventies and Eighties, which won the Bram Stoker
Award for "Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction?; he's also been nominated for the
Shirley Jackson Award and the Locus Award. Grady tweets @grady_hendrix