The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones - "Unrelentingly Bloody"
- Jill Rauh
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
“The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones is billed as a “chilling historical horror novel” and an “American Indian revenge story.” It is all that. It is also unrelentingly bloody, gruesome, with a body count so high I couldn’t even total it all up.
The wasteful slaughter of the buffalo herds in the 19th century is the backdrop for this grisly vampire story. It is told as confession by the vampire Indian Good Stab to an elderly Lutheran minister, who chronicles the story in his journal. And it turns out that Good Stab isn’t the only one who needs to confess.
This is for those with a strong stomach. And an ability to see a man-sized prairie dog at the end of the novel as a logical and unsurprising conclusion to the story.