Book #82 of 2025: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Unintentionally a great companion piece to the movie Sinners (2025), another historical vampire story centered on a marginalized racial group to come out in recent months. This one is less concerned with vampirism as a metaphor for whiteness as a predatory force, but …
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Book #111 of 2022: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones A strange little horror novella that’s not as unsettling as I feel like it’s aiming to be, yet not funny/campy enough to constitute a good parody. The high school protagonist makes a lot of bizarre intuitive leaps, and while I think the intent …
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Book #45 of 2022: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (The Lake Witch Trilogy #1) On a basic plot level, this is the story of a half-Indian teen trying to convince everyone in her small town that they’re soon to be caught up in the events of a slasher-style massacre, identifying patterns …
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Book #192 of 2020: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones There’s a real visceral horror to this new 2020 release, in which a group of adult friends are revisited by a supernatural manifestation from their youth. I was expecting the book to be structured something like Stephen King’s It, but it plays out …
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