Stephen Graham Jones
Titles
My Heart is a Chainsaw
The Only Good Indians
Mapping the Interior
Night of the Mannequins
Mongrels
Bio
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of My Heart is a Chainsaw, The Only Good Indians and numerous other novels, novellas, and short stories. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and has won 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.
Praise for The Only Good Indians
“Stephen Graham Jones is one of our most talented and prolific living writers. The book is full of humor and bone chilling images.”
“A novel of profound insight and horror, rich with humor and intelligence. [This book] is a triumph. ”
“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.”
“Jones hits his stride with a smart story of social commentary—it’s scary good.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Jones writes in clear, sparkling prose. He’s simultaneously funny, irreverent and serious”
Praise for My Heart is a Chainsaw
“A homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre. You don’t have to be a slasher fan to read My Heart is a Chainsaw, but I guarantee that you will be after you read it.”
“Stephen Graham Jones can’t miss. My Heart Is A Chainsaw is a painful drama about trauma, mental health, and the heartache of yearning to belong...twisted into a DNA helix with encyclopedic Slasher movie obsession and a frantic, gory whodunnit mystery, with an ending both savage and shocking. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!”
“Horror fans [will] be blown away by this audacious extravaganza.”