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
Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel
Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel
Locus Award for Horror
Libby Award for Best Horror
Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist
A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, The 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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4.5
26 reviews
Shawn Sandlin (EvilBetty)
February 9, 2026
The language of characters is challenging and the story's pacing is slow at first. The momentum really picks up towards the last half. I learned so much about American history which is always a plus. As a horror title, it was full of truly disgusting moments (which I found intriguing but some may find off-putting). There were a few missed opportunities near the end of the story that would have taken it to the next level of greatness. That said, it was worth reading, if the topic interests you.
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Sarah Lemler
November 18, 2025
This book is amazing, like seriously...just read it. Stephen Graham Jones is such an exceptionally talented writer that he was able to convincingly write this story from three different first person perspectives, each seriously feeling like it was written by a different person from a different culture or era. I was very impressed with the seamless use of period correct language and this book is everything it is, and more than just a vampire story, because of it. TW: torture, animal cruelty, rape
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Garry author mcmillian
April 3, 2025
oh yes it is mind nummíñg, and leave a lot ⁴ your imagination 2 runa muck.and you can sure it will be full of surprise's
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About the author

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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