The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Hardcover

by Stephen Graham Jones (Author)

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter – Hardcover by Stephen Graham Jones is a historical horror novel that blends Indigenous storytelling, vampire fiction, revenge, and the brutal history of the American West. The story unfolds through a diary written by a Lutheran pastor in 1912 and discovered many years later inside a wall.

The diary contains transcribed confessions from Good Stab, a Blackfeet man who recounts his extraordinary life during a series of visits with the pastor. His story reaches back to the 1870 Marias Massacre, in which 217 Blackfeet people were killed, and reveals a supernatural journey shaped by violence, survival, memory, and the search for justice.

As Good Stab shares his past, the novel explores colonization, historical erasure, identity, religion, generational trauma, and revenge. Stephen Graham Jones reimagines vampire mythology through a distinctly Indigenous perspective, creating a layered story that combines historical fiction with unsettling supernatural horror. 

Book Highlights

• Written by Stephen Graham Jones
• Hardcover historical-horror novel
• Features Blackfeet narrator Good Stab
• Set partly in the American West in 1912
• Connected to the historical Marias Massacre
• Told through a discovered diary and transcribed confessions
• Combines Indigenous fiction, vampire horror, and historical fantasy
• Explores justice, revenge, colonization, identity, and memory
• Features a distinctive reinvention of vampire mythology
• Suitable for adult horror and historical-fiction readers
• Publisher: Saga Press / Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: March 18, 2025
• Pages: 448
• ISBN-13: 9781668075081

Author Biography

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.