Most Popular Books by Stephen Graham Jones

If you''ve never been inside a giant space lobster, well. I don''t recommend it. "Mixing doughnuts and the walking dead proves to be a deadly combination in Stephen Graham Jones'' latest novel, Zombie Bake-Off, a slim volume of experimental fiction that wastes no time or word count on superfluous detail or arbitrary introspective riff-raff. Jones constructs a bare-bones horror tale by combining clever, offbeat humor with a familiar, yet unpredictable plot." -RUE MORGUE on Zombie Bake-Off by Stephen Graham Jones "Much like the mad-but-brilliant scientists in this collection''s titular story, Jones has created the tales here with experimental glee, yielding an astonishing assortment of mutated manuscripts. The investigational ''Let''s see what happens'' mentality at play in this collection means that the story about gigantic soul-storing moonshrimp will also be told by a dime store P.I. It means that elderly love and parenting are monster-mashed to deeper meaning. It means Kafka goes corporate inspector, basset hounds get sexy, and the aliens are popping up everywhere. It means you''ll get your Raymond Carver via dog food therapy and the Please-Let-It-Just-Fucking-Die world of zombie fiction gets repurposed twice in beautifully heart-rending ways. And yeah, there are hamsters. I''ll just say it-Jones went off the deep end this time. But it''s thrilling to watch an artist dive into their mind''s Marianas Trench and return with exploding oceanic oddities-Coltrane going from devilish smooth to full-stellar squonk, Aphex Twin going from ambient pharmacist to robot brain-masher. And here: Intrepid Writer Stephen Graham Jones going from the assured, human horror of earlier collection THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY to the outstanding aberrations of ZOMBIE SHARKS WITH METAL TEETH." -From the introduction by Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of We Live Inside You

Lewis, Gabe, Ricky e Cassidy sono quattro giovani indiani cresciuti insieme in una riserva ai confini col Canada. Il legame che li univa si è spezzato quando Ricky è morto all’improvviso: una rissa fra ubriachi, secondo la versione ufficiale. Ma è davvero andata così? Sono passati ormai dieci anni, i ragazzi sono diventati uomini e si sono più o meno integrati nella società bianca, lasciandosi alle spalle gli eccessi di gioventù ma anche un fardello con il quale non hanno mai fatto davvero i conti: le regole e le tradizioni della riserva. Il ricordo dell’amico scomparso, però, non li ha mai abbandonati. Con esso, torna prepotentemente a turbare le loro coscienze un episodio del passato che li ha segnati, mettendo fine per sempre alla loro innocenza: una battuta di caccia finita male. Una storia difficile da dimenticare, che oggi torna a perseguitarli. È Lewis il primo ad accorgersi di una presenza inquietante in casa sua, e a questo punto ognuno di loro inizia ad avere paura, per sé e per i propri cari... Una spietata caccia all’animale che si tramuta in una terrificante caccia all’uomo: vincitore dei più importanti premi nell’ambito del genere e campione di vendite, Gli unici indiani buoni è un horror mozzafiato in cui una fine analisi sociale si fonde perfettamente con la tensione di una storia da incubo. «Con Gli unici indiani buoni Stephen Graham Jones ci conduce, con la maestria di un grande scrittore, in un territorio dell’inconscio che scivola tra finzione e realtà. Un thriller da brivido». Massimo Carlotto «Elettrizzante, colto, spaventoso, avvolgente. Bonus: la più terrificante partita di basket della storia». Stephen King «Un capolavoro. Intimo, devastante, brutale, terrificante, ma caloroso e straziante nella migliore delle accezioni, Stephen Graham Jones ha scritto un romanzo horror sull’ingiustizia e, in definitiva, sulla speranza». Paul Tremblay «Stephen Graham Jones è uno dei più talentuosi scrittori viventi. Il libro è pieno di umorismo e immagini agghiaccianti. Ci sono dentro amore e vendetta, sangue e basket. Non guarderò mai più un alce, una battuta di caccia o un romanzo horror con gli stessi occhi». Tommy Orange «Il miglior romanzo di uno dei migliori del settore. Una profondità emotiva che sbalordisce. Gli unici indiani buoni ha tutto: stile, realtà, irrealtà, vendetta, calore, freddo gelido e persino alcuni squartamenti». Josh Malerman

In 1912 a strange confession is given, over several nights, to a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunted the fields of the Blackfeet reservation, looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed confessions by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shared the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits, this is a bloody history of the American West that has remained untold until now.

Kartographie des Inneren ist eine schreckenerregende, nach innen gewandte Geschichte von Stephen Graham Jones, die Paul Tremblay als »emotional roh, verstörend, gruselig und brillant« bezeichnet. Blackfeet-Autor Stephen Graham Jones bietet seinen Lesern eine packende Horror-Geschichte über Amerikanische Ureinwohner. Eines Nachts sieht ein Fünfzehnjähriger eine Gestalt. Sie erinnert ihn an seinen längst verstorbenen Vater, der auf mysteriöse Weise ums Leben kam, bevor seine Familie das Reservat verließ. Als er der Gestalt durch das Haus folgt, entdeckt er, dass dieses größer ist, als ihm bewusst war. Es ist einer dieser Orte, in dem man sich verlieren kann und gleichzeitig Dinge findet, die man lieber nicht hätte finden sollen. Im Laufe einiger Nächte versucht der Junge, sein Haus zu kartographieren, was seinen kleinen Bruder in Lebensgefahr bringt und ihn selbst gleichzeitig in die Lage, sie beide zu retten ... zu einem schrecklichen Preis. The New York Times: »Brillant.« Richard Kadrey: »Stephen Graham Jones'' schauriges Kartographie des Inneren ist wie eine verdrehte YA-Geschichte für Erwachsene, teils von S.E. Hinton, teils von Shirley Jackson. Es geht darum, jung und pleite zu sein, und um den Moment, in dem man sich zum ersten Mal fragt, wer seine Eltern wirklich sind. Die Antworten sind da draußen, aber sie werden dich für immer verfolgen.« Paul Tremblay: »Stephen Graham Jones'' Kartographie des Inneren ist ein Triumph. Emotional so roh, verstörend, gruselig und brillant. Sie werden nicht ungerührt sein. Sie werden nicht unberührt bleiben. Es ist eine Geistergeschichte im wahrsten, dunkelsten und melancholischsten Sinne. Stephen weiß, dass wir von unseren Eltern, unseren Familien und unserer gemeinsamen Vergangenheit ebenso heimgesucht werden wie von uns selbst; heimgesucht von dem, was wir waren, wer wir werden und wer wir hätten sein können.«

Bestsellerautor Stephen Graham Jones erzählt mit Night of the Mannequins eine zeitgenössische Horrorgeschichte, in der ein Teenager-Streich gründlich schief geht und die Hölle losbricht: Gibt es eine übernatürliche Ursache, einen Psychopathen, der frei herumläuft, oder beides? Ausgezeichnet mit dem Bram Stoker Award 2021. Wir dachten, wir spielen ihr einen lustigen Streich, und jetzt sind die meisten von uns tot. Das Ende der Sommerferien. Ein letzter Prank, um eine Freundin zu erschrecken. Eine Schaufensterpuppe in einen Kinosaal zu setzen ist doch nur ein harmloser Spaß, oder? Bis sie zum Leben erwacht. Bis sie anfängt zu töten. Zum Glück hat Sawyer einen Plan. Er wird der Held sein. Er wird tun, was auch immer getan werden muß. Er wird alle retten ... so gut er es halt kann. Das ist eben so eine Sache mit Helden – manchmal muss er erst zum Monster werden. The New York Times: »Durchdrungen von Fragen über die Natur von Veränderung und Freundschaft, ist Die Nacht der Schaufensterpuppen ein Märchen über die Vergänglichkeit, das Graham Jones'' unverwechselbaren Stil des intelligenten, respektlosen Horrors unterstreicht.« The Toronto Star: »Eine witzige und erschütternde Parabel über jugendliche Entfremdung, die Jones in Hochform zeigt.« Christopher Golden: »Die Nacht der Schaufensterpuppen ist düster und verdreht, lustig, ein bisschen verrückt und verdammt beunruhigend.« John Skipp: »Schlitzohrige, überraschende psychische Taschenspielertricks in einer Geschichte über Teenager-Wahnsinn, in der das nächste Plastikgesicht dein eigenes sein könnte.« Joe R. Lansdale: »Böse und ironisch, eine großartige Geschichte von einem meiner Lieblingsautoren, Stephen Graham Jones. Spitzenmäßig mit einem Hauch von Grauen.« Sarah Langan: »Spannend und ergreifend fängt es den alltäglichen Schrecken des Heranwachsens ein, und fügt noch den unverzichtbaren Hauch einer Killerpuppe hinzu.« Brian Evenson, Autor von Song for the Unraveling of the World: »Stephen Graham Jones'' Bandbreite und sein Verständnis von Horror in Fiktion und Film sind atemberaubend. In dieser Novelle jongliert er - manchmal auf sehr schlaue Art und Weise - mit Slasher-Geschichten, Coming-of-Age-Horror, Traditionen des Wahnsinns und der Unzuverlässigkeit und Kaiju, um eine erstaunlich rasante, sprachgetriebene Lektüre zu schaffen, die jede Menge Spaß macht. Jedes neue Buch von ihm zeigt eine andere Facette des Horrors, und alle zusammen ergeben etwas wirklich Weitreichendes und Originelles.« Library Journal: »Eine schärfere Stimme im Horrorbereich ist heutzutage schwer zu finden, und Graham Jones enttäuscht nicht und liefert ein weiteres Meisterwerk ab. Ein Muss für Fans von Slasher- oder Serienmördergeschichten.« Publishers Weekly: »Jones bewegt sich in dieser seltsamen und wilden Novelle auf der Grenze zwischen übernatürlichem und psychologischem Horror... Diese Novelle, in der sich Horror und Humor die Waage halten, gibt einer klassischen Monstergeschichte eine clevere, moderne Wendung.«

Quatre amis d''enfance ayant grandi dans une réserve du Montana sont hantés par les visions d''un fantôme, celui d''un caribou femelle dont ils ont massacré le troupeau lors d''une partie de chasse illégale dix ans auparavant. Tour à tour, ils vont être victimes d''hallucinations et de pulsions meurtrières, jusqu''à ce que l''entité vengeresse s''en prenne à la fille de l''un des chasseurs. Ce roman d''horreur psychologique est aussi une histoire d''amitié entre des marginaux torturés par la culpabilité, un drame familial, et un portrait poignant de la jeunesse amérindienne.

The premier magazine of the bizarro genre. Issue Five features the novella "The Obese" by Nick Antosca, short fiction by Stephen Graham Jones, Alan M. Clark, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Sam Pink, Bradley Sands, Andersen Prunty, R.J. Sevin, J. David Osborne, and Kirsten Alene, nonfiction articles by Patrick Wensink, Douglas Lain, and Caris O''Malley, a spotlight on author Andrew Goldfarb, comics, reviews, and more!

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Heart Is a Chainsaw and The Only Good Indians come all three volumes of the time-hopping horror thriller about far-future Indigenous outcasts collected into one value-priced omnibus. The year is 2112, and it''s the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time-travel portal and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on a bloody one-way mission to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus before he reaches the so-called New World. But there are steep costs to disrupting the timeline, and his actions could trigger a devastating new fate for his friends and the future. Then, travel to the Ice Age on a mission exploring America''s pre-Columbian past! It''s circa 20,000 BC and the breathtaking and bloodthirsty megafauna are the least of the problems when our protagonists are caught in a war between a community of native Paleo-Indians and an occupying Solutrean force. In the final volume, faced with the consequences of their actions--and their own slippery moral rationalizations--620 years in the future, the path is clear. There''s no better time and place to take another stab at America than Philadelphia, 1776. Join writer Stephen Graham Jones and artists Davide Gianfelice, Riccardo Burchielli, Patricio Delpeche, and Emily Schnall in this epic that collects all three volumes of Earthdivers (Vol. 1: Kill Columbus, Vol. 2: Ice Age, and Vol. 3: 1776) into one omnibus.

Dark Stars is a tribute to horror''s longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today''s most noteworthy authors, with a foreword by bestselling author Josh Malerman (Bird Box) and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell. Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection contains 12 original novelettes showcasing today''s top horror talent. Dark Stars features all-new stories from award-winning authors and up-and-coming voices like Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Usman T. Malik, Caroline Kepnes, and Alma Katsu, with seasoned author John F.D. Taff at the helm. An afterword from original Dark Forces contributor Ramsey Campbell is a poignant finale to this bone-chilling collection. Within these pages you''ll find tales of dead men walking, an insidious secret summer fling, an island harbouring unspeakable power, and a dark hallway that beckons. You''ll encounter terrible monsters--both human and supernatural--and be forever changed. The stories in Dark Stars run the gamut from traditional to modern, from dark fantasy to neo-noir, from explorations of beloved horror tropes to the unknown--possibly unknowable--threats. It''s all in here because it''s all out there, now, in horror.

Common Hardcover Edition - Original Cover Art - Black & White Interior Illustrations In the year 2145 AD, Malcolm Orion, destined to go down in history as the Brave Traveler, made his historic jump through space, launching his consciousness across the universe. His arrival at an abandoned space station reawakened the Masson Zero-a vast system of instantaneous travelways connecting innumerable worlds, many inhabited by sentient life. Now, centuries later, worlds long isolated from each other are once again connected. This anthology presents tales of this reconvergence. Set on richly imagined planets scattered across the cosmos but linked once again by near-instantaneous travel, these stories introduce you to characters-human and otherwise-navigating love and loss, alliance and intrigue, violence and betrayal, and, most of all, the joys and perils of exploration and scientific discovery. Accept the invitation. Step into a transpod of your own and slip through the Mass-O. You never know where you''ll end up.

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2020. Includes stories by: Charlie Jane Anders G. V. Anderson Gregory Norman Bossert Jeremy Packert Burke Katharine Duckett Brian Evenson Carolyn Ives Gilman Maria Dahvana Headley Stephen Graham Jones Justin C. Key Naomi Kritzer Rich Larson Yoon Ha Lee S. Qiouyi Lu Usman T. Malik Melissa Marr Maureen McHugh Tamsyn Muir Sarah Pinsker C. L. Polk Matthew Pridham M. Rickert Zin E. Rocklyn Rachel Swirsky Lavie Tidhar Carrie Vaughn Fran Wilde Claire Wrenwood At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"The grift. The scam. The double-cross. Blackmail and burglary; murder and larceny. Blood Business tracks the underbelly of human nature through the muck of our lesser angels in twenty-seven crime stories set in this world ... and beyond"--Publisher''s website.

What do you do when your dreams come true? When you were twelve, camping out in the back yard, you told your best friend that if he could draw a superhero good enough, you''d give him the perfect words to say. And then it didn''t just happen, there''s even action figures now. Your comic book is on every shelf. And you live beside your best friend again. Your kids even play together, with those action figures. Watch them on the lawn, there. Take a snapshot, and then look over their heads, over the tops of the houses, past the city, past the world itself. Look at all the stars, at all the adventures waiting out there. What do you do when all your dreams come true? You close your eyes, so the dream can last. You close your eyes and you roll your hands into fists, and you try to hold on.

It was an age of adventure.An age of sorcery.An age of unrelenting horror.Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from forgotten and forbidden templesSWORDS IN THE SHADOWS features twenty-one stories with a bloody stake driven into the heart of both the horror and fantasy camps. Herein, you will find fantasy worlds, brave warriors, fabulous creatures, wondrous magic. But you will also uncover bloodcurdling chills, spine-tingling horror, and an examination of those things that truly terrify.

Wealthy couple drunkenly ditch their car and a strange tow truck driver regales them with off-putting stories, stories relating strangely to their personal lives. With short fiction by Stephen Graham Jones (Mongrels, Mapping the Interior, The Only Good Indians), Philip Fracassi (Behold the Void, Sacculina), and Renee Miller (Cats Like Cream, The One You Feed).

No último dia da tradicional temporada de caça, quatro homens indígenas do território sagrado da nação Blackfeet, no estado de Montana, tomaram uma decisão que custaria muito caro. Lewis, Ricky, Gabe e Cass sabiam que caçar na reserva era proibido e um desrespeito, mas, movidos pela adrenalina, fizeram mesmo assim. Agora, dez anos depois do evento conhecido como Clássica Ação de Graças, Lewis começa a ser assombrado por um espírito vingativo — uma criatura com cabeça de cervo. Em Temporada de Caça, Stephen Graham Jones apresenta um romance brutal sobre vingança e pertencimento que sem dúvida já se tornou um clássico do gênero. Graham Jones cutuca feridas sem medo de machucar. Escritor de mão cheia capaz de embrulhar o estômago do leitor ao mesmo tempo em que provoca reflexões profundas, ele desfia, a partir da premissa de vingança, temas como racismo, trauma entre gerações e a vivência indígena nos Estados Unidos. Um terror moderno que nunca perde o ritmo, uma prosa capaz de deixar escapar um sorriso tenso no canto da boca. Um livro que arrepia pela originalidade e choca pela veracidade dos fatos. Graham Jones, uma verdadeira semente da nação Blackfeet, explica que quis questionar o que significa ser um bom indígena a partir do momento em que o sucesso em um círculo significa traição em outro. O objetivo foi contestar principalmente ideias vindas dentro da própria comunidade indígena que afirmam que, para ser verdadeiramente aceito, é necessário seguir certos padrões ou estereótipos. “Acho que a maneira que vai lhe deixar feliz ou satisfeito é o que significa ser um bom indígena. Você não precisa seguir os meios tradicionais. Não precisa adotar novos modos de viver. Você não tem que seguir este ou aquele caminho. Apenas precisa ser feliz, e é assim que você é um bom indígena, na minha opinião”, diz o autor ao Columbia Journal. Romance premiadíssimo — ganhou o Bram Stoker Award, o Shirley Jackson Award e o Ray Bradbury Prize, além de ter sido indicado ao Goodreads Choice na categoria horror — Temporada de Caça é o livro que faltava na coleção dos fãs do gênero. Uma narrativa sobre vingança, certamente. Mas também sobre identidade, vínculos entre comunidades e a resiliência de laços fraternos. Para celebrar os 10 anos da DarkSide® Books, a Caveira orgulhosamente apresenta esta obra crua e inovadora, que atravessa o território sagrado do horror para mais uma temporada literária de caça.

New York Times best seller Stephen Graham Jones and all-star artist Davide Gianfelice continue their heart-stopping historical slasher in Earthdivers #2! After dodging the apocalypse, four Indigenous outcasts are past the point of no return on their audacious one-way, time travel mission to save the world by killing Christopher Columbus. Immersed in 1492 as an undercover crewman, Tad--a brilliant Lakota linguist and wildly unqualified avenger--must rally from the tragic consequences of his early actions on board and recommit to spilling the admiral''s blood before landfall. In the year 2112, ringleader Yellow Kid and headstrong Sosh encounter a haunting sign of Tad''s progress in the past, and back at the cave portal, Emily watches her back as her suspicion of Yellow Kid skyrockets.

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror!Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallaceand brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-newstories and two reprints:"Snake Season" by Erin Roberts"Cutting Teeth" by Kirsty Logan (reprint)"Being an Account of The Sad Demise of The Body Horror Club" by Nin Harris"The Darkest Part" by Stephen Graham Jones (reprint)

The March/April 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O''Brien, Bogi Takács, and Lisa M. Bradley, interviews with Stephen Graham Jones and Sarah Pinsker by Julia Rios, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

"Today’s hottest Native American and Indigenous talent make their Marvel Comics debuts with a collection of super-charged stories as Marvel celebrates National Native American Heritage Month! Celebrated writer and artist Jeffrey Veregge explores the legacy of Marvel’s incredible cast of Indigenous characters! Hugo, Nebula, and Locus-award winning Black/Ohkay Owingeh writer Rebecca Roanhorse and Tongva artist Weshoyot Alvitre tell an Echo tale like none you’ve heard before. Geoscientist and Lipan Apache writer Darcie Little Badger joins acclaimed Whitefish Lake First Nation artist Kyle Charles for a Dani Moonstar story that’s out of this world! And Bram Stoker-winning horror writer Stephen Graham Jones of the Blackfeet Nation teams up with Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation artist David Cutler to revisit one of the darkest spots of X-Men history!"--Publisher''s website.

A horror and weird fiction anthology of haunted manuscripts.

"What if you weren''t looking for evidence of the supernatural, but found it all the same? A true research scientist can either hide that evidence or tell the world. Either way it''s going to haunt you. Either way your life is never going to be the same." -- Publisher''s website.