The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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448 pages

English language

Published 2025

ISBN:
978-1-6680-7508-1
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4 stars (2 reviews)

A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

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reviewed The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Delicious prose, dark heart

4 stars

There is so much going on in this book about the generational trauma of America's genocidal history, about the inability to erase the past, and about living with the rage of having everything taken from an entire people. It would be so much harder to get through if the sentence to sentence writing weren't so masterful and beautiful.

But I have to be honest, a couple of the late game plot developments had me scratching my head. I accept that the author had plans and intents that I'm just not getting, but... Well, I'm not getting them. The conclusion struck me as almost comical, honestly. But the fact that I'm still trying to ponder through rather than dismissing speaks to the ring of truth I still sense. It's worth mulling.

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Subjects

  • Horror
  • Historical fiction
  • Vampires
  • Indigenous
  • Fantasy
  • Paranormal

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