Imagine Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson, and Sidney Prescott had each other to lean on in the wake of experiencing unimaginable horror and surviving killing sprees that left loved ones dead. “The Final Girl Support Group,” slated for publication in July 2021, takes the final girl trope from horror films and uses it as the basis of “an homage to and subversion of iconic slasher films.” Annapurna just scored rights to the novel and is adapting it into a series. Deadline broke the news.

Described as a “fresh new take on the beloved horror sub-genre, while also capturing the cultural zeitgeist around true crime stories,” “The Final Girl Support Group” will be penned for the screen by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, co-creators of ABC’s “The Fix.”

“The women in the Final Girl Support Group have been in therapy together for decades – ever since one was attacked by a cannibal family in Texas, by a machete wielding maniac at summer camp, by an older brother who returned to settle scores on Halloween, by a lunatic who allegedly entered their dreams. These are the middle-aged survivors of the real-life crimes the slasher movies are based on. Some of them are addicts, some are in denial, and some have become motivational speakers. And now the final girls are mysteriously dying, one by one,” the source teases.

Craft and Fain also created “Women’s Murder Club.” Their other TV credits include “The Shield,” “Angel,” and “The Vampire Diaries.”