Get Lit: A Literary Salon—Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Join us for a guided discussion of our monthly book selection, paired with delicious food, drinks, and the company of a wonderful reading community.

Includes the book of the month (physical or audio copy), 2 drinks, an appetizer, family-style main course, and light dessert. Limited to 40 seats. Additional food and drink available for purchase at Stems & Skins.

• August Book Club Pick: Witchcradt for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, who will join us via video call to answer all your burning questions!
• Where: Stems & Skins, 1070 E Montague Ave, North Charleston, SC
• When: August 19, 2025, at 7 p.m.

• Book Fulfillment: You can opt for the physical book (picked up at the store or shipped to you) or the audiobook, available from Libro.fm. The dinner ticket you select will indicate which format you want. If you opt for the print book and would like it shipped to your address of choice, please add the $5 shipping add-on to your order. All other print books will be pick-up at book club or at the bookstore.
• Dietary Restrictions & Alcohol-Free Options: Add the free "Special Diet" or "Non-Alcoholic Drink Pairings" add-on to your order.
• Parking: Street parking is available around Stems & Skins. There are also several public parking lots nearby, such as on Cougar Way behind DIG, Stone's Ally in front of Itinerate Literate, off Colie Morse Lane there are two grass lots in front of Cooper River Baptist Church and one at Chateau Ave & Garco Street.

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“Superb … a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

There’s power in a book...

They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.

Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid…and it’s usually paid in blood.

In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).

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