PRAISE FOR THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER
For me and vampires, there is Stoker, there is Rice, and now there is Jones. It's harrowing, agonizing, nuanced, and downright philosophical. Very likely Jones's masterpiece. --Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall
PRAISE FOR I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER
Readers will watch something original emerge before their eyes, realizing why everyone needs to be as obsessed with the Slasher as Jones is himself. Suggest to every reader who loves a perfectly rendered time and place or just wants a chilling, captivating, and thought provoking story where every detail matters and every page is worth their time. --Booklist, starred review
The story has a clear love for the splashy slasher films that inspired it, and Jones does a great job of landing the plot's gorier excesses as the bodies pile up...[ F]ans of meta horror will find a lot to love as Jones remixes well-worn tropes with glee. --Publishers Weekly
Grimly humorous and filled with surprising turns, this novel is poised to become a summer-reading hit and a book club favorite. --Library Journal starred review
The gore, emotions, and pure slasher-ness are all expertly layered into one captivating story that keeps readers wanting more. Jones proves once again that he is an outstanding author with his ability to create such a compelling narrative. The way he weaves together elements of horror and coming-of-age themes makes for a truly unforgettable reading experience. --Capes and Tights
Breaks new ground and takes the slasher tropes and flips them on their head... Jones is playing his own game now, and it's up to other keen slasher novelists to keep up. --Bloody Flicks
PRAISE FOR THE LAKE WITCH TRILOGY
Jade Daniels is ... the ultimate final girl. Bruised, battered, bleeding but never broken. Dark Mill South has no idea what he's hit. Delivering characters as riveting as an axe to the face and surprise reveals like body blows, Don't Fear the Reaper is another bloody triumph. --A. G. Slatter, author of All the Murmuring Bones and Path of Thorns
In uncertain times, readers relate to horror stories and consider their outrageousness a balm. It's why contemporary horror novelists like Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia are slashing their way up bestseller lists. Their novels teach us to stand up to whatever stands in for the crazed puppets in our lives. --The Washington Post
Our favorite horror-loving Final Girl is back in proper slasher sequel form!.. Jones wears his love of horror and slashers on his protagonist's sleeves, ensuring a page-turning good time. --Bloody Disgusting
Jones's chilling Indian Lake trilogy continues with Don't Fear the Reaper, a bravura sequel to 2021's My Heart is a Chainsaw... A palm-sweating slasher that both satisfies and subverts its genre conventions. Now when is Book Three coming? --Esquire
Brilliantly crafted. In this highly anticipated (by me and literally everyone else) follow-up to the immensely entertaining My Heart is a Chainsaw, Jade returns to her small town the same day that indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South sets off to seek vengeance for the Civil War-era killings of a number of innocent souls. --Crime Reads
A story of vengeance, survival, and the eternal nature of evil that stains an entire community. --BookBub
Brilliantly crafted... [ The] highly anticipated (by me and literally everyone else) follow-up to the immensely entertaining My Heart is a Chainsaw. --CrimeReads
One of the best authors in horror today. --Lit Reactor
Fantastic writing and cringy gore... It is an homage to the slasher genre and, like his first book in the series, Don't Fear the Reaper is a story about women who are survivors. Jade is a perfect protagonist. --Mystery & Suspense
A stunning sequel. --Lit Reactor
Jones needs no introduction, especially among horror fans-after all, his work has consistently been ranking as the very best fiction you can find anywhere. --The Lineup
Remember the first time you watched Scream 2 and it opened on Ghostface brutally killing moviegoers at the Stab premiere? Or when Michael Myers catches up with Laurie Strode in Halloween II? The second installment of Stephen Graham Jones' Indian Lake Trilogy has the same delicious horror franchise setup. --Paste Magazine
Stephen Graham Jones blew me away with the first in his Indian Lake trilogy, My Heart is a Chainsaw, and Don't Fear the Reaper is, if you can believe it, even better than the first!.. The fast-paced novel takes place over only a day and a half, and you'll want to read it just as quickly. --CrimeReads
A superior example of twenty-first-century horror with a strong, emotionally heartfelt core where every detail matters, delivered by an author at the top of his game. --Booklist
A love letter to horror classics. --BookPage
It's a delicate balance to portray a serial killer like Dark Mill, something that Jones does with great aplomb... The narrative is full of pulse-pounding scares and epic slasher scenes that build intensity as the chapters go on...Adrenaline-filled with plenty of shocking moments, the latest from master of horror Jones is an intense, highly entertaining, and deeply personal novel. --Library Journal
Superb... Expertly blends snappy graveyard humor with nail-biting suspense...This characteristically clever gore-fest proves Jennifer to be a horror heroine worthy of many more adventures. --Publishers Weekly
Praise for Stephen Graham Jones
* Horror fans [ will] be blown away by this audacious extravaganza. --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
* This extraordinary novel is an essential purchase. --Kirkus, Starred Review
Stephen's writing is a chainsaw and every sentence in this book drips with blood, every paragraph is clotted with skin, and every period is a bullethole. He makes me feel like an amateur. --Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group
A homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre. You don't have to be a slasher fan to read My Heart is a Chainsaw, but I guarantee that you will be after you read it. --Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger
Brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable, My Heart Is a Chainsaw is a visceral ride from start to finish. A bloody love letter to slasher fans, it's everything I never knew I needed in a horror novel. --Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens
Stephen Graham Jones can't miss. My Heart Is A Chainsaw is a painful drama about trauma, mental health, and the heartache of yearning to belong...twisted into a DNA helix with encyclopedic Slasher movie obsession and a frantic, gory whodunnit mystery, with an ending both savage and shocking. Don't say I didn't warn you. -Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and Red Hands
An easy contender for Best of the Year. A love letter to (and an examination of) both the horror genre and the American West, it left me stunned and applauding. --Brian Keene, World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rising and The Damned Highway
Stephen Graham Jones masterfully navigates the shadowy paths between mystery and horror. An epic entry in the slasher canon. --Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase
An intense homage to the classic horror films of yore. --Polygon
At once an homage to the horror genre and a searing indictment of the brutal legacy of Indigenous genocide in America, Stephen Graham Jones' My Heart Is a Chainsaw delivers both dazzling thrills and visceral commentary... Jones takes grief, gentrification and abuse to task in a tale that will terrify you and break your heart all at the same time. --Time
Sneaking in right at the end of the summer is the best horror novel of the year... A loving homage to meta-horror classics like Scream and Cabin in the Woods. Hilarious at one turn and outrageously gruesome at the next, it'll be the perfect book to read after dark over Labor Day weekend. --GQ
Stephen Graham Jones continues his reign as a horror maestro with My Heart Is a Chainsaw. This brutal homage to slasher films focuses on Jade, a young half-Indian woman who finds comfort in horror movies after feeling abandoned by her family and her town. --PopSugar
Stephen Graham Jones is a star when it comes to melding horror with literary fiction, exploring themes of colonialism and racisms alongside Indigenous experiences. He hasn't been described as the Jordan Peele of horror fiction for nothing... A masterpiece. --Book Riot
