Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of several awards including: the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
“Fans of Stephen King's It and Peter Straub's Ghost
Story should find plenty to love in this tale of friends who
are haunted by a supernatural entity they first encountered in
their youth.” —Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author
of Mexican Gothic
“Jones boldly and bravely incorporates both the difficult and the
beautiful parts of contemporary Indian life into his story, never
once falling into stereotypes or easy answers but also not shying
away from the horrors caused by cycles of violence.”—Rebecca
Roanhorse, bestselling author of Trail of
Lightning and Black Sun
"The Only Good Indian is equal parts revenge thriller, monster
movie, and meditation on the inescapable undertow of the past. A
gripping, deeply unsettling novel."—Carmen Maria Machado, National
Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow and author of Her
Body and Other Parties
"The best yet from one of the best in the business. An emotional
depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, one's place in the
world, what's right and what's wrong. The Only Good Indians has it
all: style, elevation, reality, the unreal, revenge, warmth,
freezing cold, and even some slashing. In other words, the book is
made up of everything Stephen Graham Jones seemingly explores and,
in turn, everything the rest of us want to explore with
him." —Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of
Bird Box and A House at the Bottom of a Lake.
“Stephen Graham Jones is a literary master who happens to write
horror, and you've never read a book quite like The Only Good
Indians.”—Tananarive Due, National Book Award winner, author
of The Good House
“The Only Good Indians is scary good. Stephen Graham Jones is
one of our most talented and prolific living writers. The book is
full of humor and bone chilling images. It’s got love and revenge,
blood and basketball. More than I could have asked for in a novel.
It also both reveals and subverts ideas about contemporary Native
life and identity. Novels can do some much to render actual and
possible lives lived. Stephen Graham Jones truly knows
how to do this, and how to move us through a story at breakneck
(literally) speed. I’ll never see an elk or hunting, or what a
horror novel can do the same way again.”—Tommy Orange, Pulitzer
Prize finalist of There There
“The Only Good Indians is the most American horror novel I've
ever read.”—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling
author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying
Vampires
“A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival,
grappling with themes of cultural identity, family, and
traditions.” —Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
“Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you
nightmares. The good kind, of course.”—Buzzfeed
“This novel works both as a terrifying chiller and as biting
commentary on the existential crisis of indigenous peoples adapting
to a culture that is bent on eradicating theirs.” —Publishers
Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
"I like stories where nobody escapes their pasts because it's what
I fear most."—Terese Marie Mailhot, New York Times bestselling
author of Heart Berries
"Stephen Graham Jones is one of our greatest treasures. His prose
here pops and sings, hard-boiled poetry conspiring with
heartbreakingly-alive characters." —Sam J. Miller,
Nebula-Award-Winning author of Blackfish City
“Gritty and gorgeous” —The New York Times
"How long must we pay for our mistakes, for our sins? Does a
thoughtless act doom us for eternity? This is a novel of profound
insight and horror, rich with humor and intelligence. The Only Good
Indians is a triumph; somehow it’s a great story and also a
meditation on stories. I've wondered who would write a worthy heir
to Peter Straub's Ghost Story. Now I know the answer: Stephen
Graham Jones."—Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom
and The Changeling
"THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS is a masterpiece. Intimate, devastating,
brutal, terrifying, yet warm and heartbreaking in the best way,
Stephen Graham Jones has written a horror novel about injustice
and, ultimately, about hope. Not a false, sentimental hope, but the
real one, the one that some of us survive and keeps the rest of us
going. And it gives me hope that this book exists and is now in
your hands."—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The
Cabin at the End of the World
“Jones hits his stride with a smart story of social commentary—it’s
scary good.”—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
“Jones... has written a masterpiece. The book is… as instinctive
and essential as it is harsh. Despite the blood and
bleakness, The Only Good Indians is ultimately also about
hope and the promise of the future...Read it.”
*Locus Magazine*
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