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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
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Selected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year
A Barack Obama Summer Read
Libby Award for Best Horror
Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist
A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction
The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
“Jones has written his Interview with the Indigenous Vampire. A landmark of horror and historical fiction alike, perhaps the closest thing we have to horror’s Moby-Dick.” —Vulture
“Inventive and spine-tingling…a master class in voice. Queasy, uneasy, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter plays with the interplay between religion and historical guilt, identity and appetite.” —The Washington Post
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
A Barack Obama Summer Read
Libby Award for Best Horror
Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist
A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction
The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
“Jones has written his Interview with the Indigenous Vampire. A landmark of horror and historical fiction alike, perhaps the closest thing we have to horror’s Moby-Dick.” —Vulture
“Inventive and spine-tingling…a master class in voice. Queasy, uneasy, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter plays with the interplay between religion and historical guilt, identity and appetite.” —The Washington Post
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
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“I couldn’t get past 100 pages.”
“This one's hard to rate for me and I fear the immense praise for this book almost set it (or me) up for failure before I even started reading..
While I really liked the idea of the story and the concept of vampires in it, the pacing, the writing style and the amount of words I, as a non-native English speaker, have never heard of before (or at least didn't know the meaning of) made it extremely hard for me to get into and follow the storyline. I thought I was fluent enough to read in English, and I think for the most part I am, but this book humbled me.
I really "enjoyed" (feels wrong to use that word in the context of this book's contents) Good Stab's perspective and his increasing zero f*cks given mentality throughout the book, but I'm also left with this feeling that due to me struggling so much with the writing style and choice of words, I couldn't really take in the full brilliance of this book. I have no doubt that this book is as great as a lot of people say it is, but it's not accessible enough for everyone to fully see it too. And, unfortunately, I was one of the people who struggled.
In the end, this book just left me uncertain. Uncertain what to think of the storyline, especially the ending. Uncertain if I even understood the storyline correctly in the first place. Uncertain whether I would consider it actually horror or rather a historical novel with horror and fantasy elements. But mostly uncertain on how to rate it because I don't think any rating I could give in my position would be a fair one.”
“𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞: Horror
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: March 18, 2025
🎧 15 hrs 29 mins
🐦⬛ American Indian Revenge Story
🐈⬛️ Historical Massacre
🩸 Unique Vampires
⏳️ Multiple POV/Timelines
🫀 Gluttony + Greed
This was such a unique take on vampirism; our Native MMC, Good Stab, has shapeshifter qualities where he takes on characteristics from whatever (or whomever) he feeds on, and feed he does. The descriptions are incredibly visceral with no shortage of violence, and the narrators did an amazing job bringing the story/characters to life.
I especially found the pastor's character interesting, his vice clearly being gluttony. He constantly went on about not wanting to waste things or saying, "my sins are covered, so it’s fine," (an awful take for a pastor since it completely ignores the actual change of heart that’s required... but I’m certain that irony was intentional.)
I did enjoy Good Stab's flashbacks in the form of "confessions" to our gluttonous Lutheran pastor, following his transition from person, to monster, then to vigilante and legend.
The entire book really feels like a study in gluttony and greed. If you're looking for a fresh, gritty spin on vampire lore, with plenty of gore, I recommend.
"This is my telling for today. My pipe is empty."
⚠️ SA, gore/horror elements”
About Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a 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.
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