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Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972) is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. His works include the horror novels The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, and Night of the Mannequins. Jones is the Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado, where he has been a faculty member since 2008. Background Stephen Graham Jones was born in Midland, Texas, on January 22, 1972, to Dennis Jones and Rebecca Graham. He is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.Jones received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from Texas Tech University in 1994, a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of North Texas in 1996, and his Ph.D. in 1998 from Florida State University. Writing career While he was attending Florida State University, Jones's dissertation director introduced him to Houghton-Mifflin editor Jane Silver at the Writers' Harvest conference. Jones pitched her a novel which he had not yet written, and Silver liked the idea. Jones then wrote the book, The Fast Red Road, as his dissertation. It was published as his debut novel in 2000. It was followed by All the Beautiful Sinners in 2003. In 2002, Jones won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. In 2006, he won the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters for his 2005 short story collection Bleed Into Me. He won the Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction for Mapping the Interior in 2017.The Only Good Indians, a horror novel, was published on July 14, 2020, through Saga Press and Titan Books. It won the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction in 2020. Jones won two 2020 Bram Stoker Awards for Night of the Mannequins and The Only Good Indians.Jones contributed an X-Men story to Marvel Comics' Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 anthology, release in November 2020. Joining him was artist David Cutler. Themes and style Jones has acknowledged a debt to Native American Renaissance writers, especially Gerald Vizenor. Scholar Cathy Covell Waegner describes Jones's work as containing elements of "dark playfulness, narrative inventiveness, and genre mixture."Joseph Gaudet cited Jones' writing as "post-ironic" or representative of David Foster Wallace's "New Sincerity," a literary approach "emerging in response to the cynicism, detachment, and alienation that many saw as defining the postmodern canon," seeking instead "to more patently embrace morality, sincerity, and an 'ethos of belief.' His eighth novel, Ledfeather, which Jones stated was the most widely taught of his books, is used as Gaudet's primary example. Personal life Jones and his wife Nancy married on May 20, 1995. They have one child together. Awards Selected works Books Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones P.T. Jones; Paul Tremblay (2014). Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly. ChiTeen, ChiZine Publications. ISBN 9781771481731.Short stories "Captain's Lament". Clarkesworld. No. 17. February 2008. "How Billy Hanson Destroyed the Planet Earth, and Everyone on It". Juked. April 1, 2009. Jones, Stephen Graham (2012). "Little Lambs". In VanderMeer, Jeff; VanderMeer, Ann (eds.). The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Reprint ed.). Tor Books. ISBN 978-0765333605. Sterling City. Nightscape. 2013. ISBN 9781938644160. The Elvis Room. This is Horror. 2014. ISBN 9780957548152. "Brushdogs". Nightmare Magazine. No. 58. 2014. "Men, Women, and Chainsaws." Tor.com. 2022. ISBN 9781250850874.Comics Earthdivers, no. 1– (October 2022–present). IDW Publishing. 'Dear Final Girls' (2019) art by Jolyon Yates, originally published in the Horror Special issue of 'Wicked Awesome tales' edited by Todd Jones.References Further reading Billy J. Stratton, The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion (U of New Mexico P, 2016) Chaplinsky, Joshua (January 10, 2011). "Stephen Graham Jones". The Cult. Retrieved February 28, 2015. Hart, Rob (November 28, 2007). "Stephen Graham Jones". The Cult. Retrieved February 28, 2015. Slushpile (July 1, 2005). "Interview: Stephen Graham Jones, Author". Slushpile.net. Retrieved February 28, 2015.External links Official website "Exodus" short story by Stephen Graham Jones "The Night Cyclist" short story by Stephen Graham Jones "Chapter Six" short story by Stephen Graham Jones Reviews by Stephen Graham Jones on IMDb Stephen Graham Jones at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Stephen Graham Jones at the University of Colorado website. Discover the Stephen Graham Jones popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Stephen Graham Jones books.
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Rugby Head
Greg BruceIn this brutally honest, hilarious and forensic examination of both himself and the game he loves, Greg Bruce tells the story of his life growing up and becoming a man in a country...
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A History of Fear
Luke DumasThis “disorienting, creepy, paranoiainducing reimagining of the devilmademedoit tale” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) follows the harrowing downfall of...
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Echoes
Ellen DatlowThe essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genreincluding stories from awardwinning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oa...
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Becoming the Boogeyman
Richard ChizmarThe “worthy and frightening sequel” (Stephen King) to the acclaimed and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben) New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel Chasing the Boogeyman.Back in ...
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Chasing the Boogeyman
Richard ChizmarThe acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel of smalltown evil that “is genuinely chilling and something brandnew and exciting” (Stephen King) and “unforgettable” (...
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Beneath the Stairs
Jennifer FawcettIn this spinetingling, atmospheric “nailbiter of a novel” (Shelf Awareness), a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at an alleged haunted house...
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Cold Snap
Lindy RyanA grieving mother and son hope to survive Christmas in a remote mountain cabin, in this chilling novella of dread, isolation and sinister spirits lurking in the frozen woods. ...
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Kartographie des Inneren
Stephen Graham JonesKartographie des Inneren ist eine schreckenerregende, nach innen gewandte Geschichte von Stephen Graham Jones, die Paul Tremblay als »emotional roh, verstörend, gruselig und brilla...
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The Mythic Dream
Dominik Parisien & Navah WolfeAn allnew anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an allstar lineup of awardwinning and critically acclaimed writers.Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our ...
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The Faster Redder Road
Theodore C. Van Alst & Stephen Graham JonesThis collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream. The Faster Redder Road features...
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Dark Stars
John F.D. TaffDark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors.With...
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The Devil Himself
Peter FarrisFor Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself, sizzles with pageburning suspense and bewitching characters. Deep in the forest o...
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Never Name the Dead
D. M. RowellOld grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this ownvoices debut pe...
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The Troop
Nick CutterWINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING“The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is oldschool horror at its best.” Stephen KingOnce every ...
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Family Business
Jonathan SimsA bonechilling horror from the acclaimed writer of THIRTEEN STOREYS and hit horror podcast THE MAGNUS ARCHIVESJUST ANOTHER DEADEND JOB.DEATH. IT'S A DIRTY BUSINESS.When Diya Burman...
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The Figure In The Distance
Otto De KatCambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere. He has observed some of the major upheavals of the ce...
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Mapping the Interior
Stephen Graham Jones"Brilliant." The New York TimesMapping the Interior is a horrifying, inwardlooking novella from Stephen Graham Jones that Paul Tremblay calls "emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, ...
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We Used to Live Here
Marcus KliewerThe Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hitsoon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Livelyabout two homeowners whose lives are turned ...
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Deep Water
Emma BamfordThe dark side of paradise is exposed when a terrified couple reveals their daunting experience on a remote island to their rescuersonly to realize they’re still in the grips of the...
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Painted Earth Temple
Heyoka MerrifieldIn this second volume of the White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, Heyoka Merrifield transports us back to ancient Europe as a mythical tribe of huntergatherers is forced on an odyssey away...
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Curse of the Reaper
Brian McAuleyScream meets The Shining in this pageturning horror tale about an aging actor haunted by the slasher movie villain he brought to life.Decades after playing the titular killer in th...
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The Starlit Wood
Dominik Parisien & Navah WolfeThis “first rate anthology of reimagined fairy tales” (Locus Magazine) features an allstar lineup of awardwinning and critically acclaimed writers.Once upon a time. It’s how so man...
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Night of the Mannequins
Stephen Graham JonesAwardwinning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a ...
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Whalefall
Daniel KrausA USA TODAY BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPRThe Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times be...
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Memorials
Richard ChizmarA group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “unforgetta...
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In the Valley of the Sun
Andy DavidsonA finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with f...
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Daughters of Isis
Joyce TyldesleyIn ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They ...