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.
* "Horror fans [will] be blown away by this audacious
extravaganza."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * "This
extraordinary novel is an essential purchase."--Kirkus, Starred
Review "Stephen's writing is a chainsaw and every sentence in this
book drips with blood, every paragraph is clotted with skin, and
every period is a bullethole. He makes me feel like an
amateur."--Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The
Final Girl Support Group "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."--Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The
Hunger "Brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable, My Heart Is a
Chainsaw is a visceral ride from start to finish. A bloody love
letter to slasher fans, it's everything I never knew I needed in a
horror novel."--Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author
of The Rust Maidens "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!" --Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling
author of Ararat and Red Hands "An easy contender for Best of the
Year. A love letter to (and an examination of) both the horror
genre and the American West, it left me stunned and
applauding."--Brian Keene, World Horror Grandmaster Award and two
Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rising and The Damned
Highway "Stephen Graham Jones masterfully navigates the shadowy
paths between mystery and horror. An epic entry in the slasher
canon."--Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase "An intense homage
to the classic horror films of yore."--Polygon "At once an homage
to the horror genre and a searing indictment of the brutal legacy
of Indigenous genocide in America, Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart
Is a Chainsaw delivers both dazzling thrills and visceral
commentary... Jones takes grief, gentrification and abuse to task
in a tale that will terrify you and break your heart all at the
same time."--Time "Sneaking in right at the end of the summer is
the best horror novel of the year... A loving homage to meta-horror
classics like Scream and Cabin in the Woods. Hilarious at one turn
and outrageously gruesome at the next, it'll be the perfect book to
read after dark over Labor Day weekend."--GQ "Stephen Graham Jones
continues his reign as a horror maestro with My Heart Is a
Chainsaw. This brutal homage to slasher films focuses on Jade, a
young half-Indian woman who finds comfort in horror movies after
feeling abandoned by her family and her town."--PopSugar "Stephen
Graham Jones is a star when it comes to melding horror with
literary fiction, exploring themes of colonialism and racisms
alongside Indigenous experiences. He hasn't been described as the
Jordan Peele of horror fiction for nothing... A masterpiece."--Book
Riot
"A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival,
grappling with themes of cultural identity, family, and
traditions." --Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
"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 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
"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
"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
"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"
"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
"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
"Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you
nightmares. The good kind, of course."--Buzzfeed
"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.
"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
"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
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