Grady Jendrix – Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

In the late 1960s, unwed pregnant girls are sent to Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, hidden away until they give birth and are forced to give up their babies for adoption.  When four of the girls sneak out into the woods behind the home, they encounter a witch who promises to give them their life’s desire if they swear fealty to her.  When it comes time to pay up, however, they can’t live up to their commitments, causing the witch and her cover to go on the offensive.

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is the latest from Grady Hendrix.  He uses the trappings of the horror genre to look at the true horrors placed upon these girls prior to the passage of Roe v Wade, stripped of their ability to choose what happened to their baby and sent away from any and all support systems because of their so-called shame.  I look forward to seeing what he comes up with next.