Best Stephen Graham Jones Books

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

by Stephen Graham Jones

Jones crafts horror from the historical slaughter of buffalo and the hunters who killed them. Violence echoes across time in this supernatural tale of ecological and cultural revenge.

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Jones crafts horror from the historical slaughter of buffalo and the hunters who killed them. Violence echoes across time in this supernatural tale of ecological and cultural revenge.

Mongrels

by Stephen Graham Jones

Jones crafts a werewolf story about poverty, family, and belonging on the American fringe. A boy waits to transform while learning survival from relatives who shift between human and beast.

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Jones crafts a werewolf story about poverty, family, and belonging on the American fringe. A boy waits to transform while learning survival from relatives who shift between human and beast.

The Only Good Indians

The Only Good Indians • Book 1

by Stephen Graham Jones

Jones weaponizes guilt and Indigenous identity in a horror novel where past sins literally hunt you down. The elk they shouldn't have killed returns wearing human faces, transforming family gatherings into nightmare fuel.

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Jones weaponizes guilt and Indigenous identity in a horror novel where past sins literally hunt you down. The elk they shouldn't have killed returns wearing human faces, transforming family gatherings into nightmare fuel.

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4

by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan

Darkness lurks everywhere — in small-town picnics, behind dumpsters where harpies dwell, and in The Nowhere where lost things go — across stories that find horror in the mundane.

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Darkness lurks everywhere — in small-town picnics, behind dumpsters where harpies dwell, and in The Nowhere where lost things go — across stories that find horror in the mundane.

The Shivers Collection

The Shivers Collection #1-5

by Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward, Owen King

Horror anthology featuring Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, and others exploring supernatural dangers hidden in everyday places—trees, beaches, personal correspondence.

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Horror anthology featuring Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, and others exploring supernatural dangers hidden in everyday places—trees, beaches, personal correspondence.

Zombies: More Recent Dead

by Paula Guran, Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Kathleen Tierney, Stephen Graham Jones, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Vaughn, Carrie Ryan, Matthew Johnson

Literary horror's finest writers use zombies to explore survival, society, and what makes us human in the first place. The anthology avoids shambling clichés by focusing on character-driven stories that happen to feature the undead.

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Literary horror's finest writers use zombies to explore survival, society, and what makes us human in the first place. The anthology avoids shambling clichés by focusing on character-driven stories that happen to feature the undead.