The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Written by Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland and Owen Teale

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Horror

Selected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2025

A Barack Obama Summer Read

A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year

Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction

The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones—the master of modern horror—is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

“Jones has written his Interview with the Indigenous Vampire. A landmark of horror and historical fiction alike, perhaps the closest thing we have to horror’s Moby-Dick.” —Vulture

“Inventive and spine-tingling…a master class in voice. Queasy, uneasy, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter plays with the interplay between religion and historical guilt, identity and appetite.” —The Washington Post

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Mar 18, 2025
• ISBN: 9781668117323

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times–bestselling author of more than forty novels, collections, novellas, and comic books, including The Only Good Indians and the Indian Lake Trilogy. Jones received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and has won honors ranging from the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award to the Bram Stoker Award. Jones lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado. Visit his website at stephengrahamjones.com.

Reviews for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

[Erica · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Very gory, so consider this your warning. It’s a slow burn, and the middle drags more than it needs to, in my opinion, even though it adds depth to Good Stab’s transformation.

[osphakerhaker · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good book, thank you for your efforts. Thank you good

[jjvicente1206 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Just read it its going to blow your mind i

[Maggie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was awesome! I could not get into SGJ's writing before and I truly believe it is best appreciated in audio format. This was one of my favorite books of the last year, it is great in pacing for the most part, the building dread is delicious and the plot is interesting. I highly recommend this!

[Jill Jorgensen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The writing, the narration, the plot and themes. It was superb.

[anthony · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

One of the best books I’ve come across in a while. And the audiobook was fire! Great narration. Very creative. Can’t wait for like 6 months from now when I reread.

[ndmccane · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Masterpiece. Four and a half stars. I believe the audiobook made reading the physical book 10 times better!