“Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you nightmares. “A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival, grappling with themes of cultural identity, family, and traditions.” - Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

“ The Only Good Indians is the most American horror novel I've ever read.”-Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires I’ll never see an elk or hunting, or what a horror novel can do the same way again.”-Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize finalist of There There Novels can do some much to render actual and possible lives lived. Stephen Graham Jones truly knows how to do this, and how to move us through a story at breakneck (literally) speed.

It also both reveals and subverts ideas about contemporary Native life and identity. More than I could have asked for in a novel. It’s got love and revenge, blood and basketball. The book is full of humor and bone chilling images. Stephen Graham Jones is one of our most talented and prolific living writers. “Stephen Graham Jones is a literary master who happens to write horror, and you've never read a book quite like The Only Good Indians.”-Tananarive Due, National Book Award winner, author of The Good House In other words, the book is made up of everything Stephen Graham Jones seemingly explores and, in turn, everything the rest of us want to explore with him.' -Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and A House at the Bottom of a Lake. The Only Good Indians has it all: style, elevation, reality, the unreal, revenge, warmth, freezing cold, and even some slashing. An emotional depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, one's place in the world, what's right and what's wrong. 'The best yet from one of the best in the business. A gripping, deeply unsettling novel.'-Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow and author of Her Body and Other Parties

' The Only Good Indian is equal parts revenge thriller, monster movie, and meditation on the inescapable undertow of the past. “Jones boldly and bravely incorporates both the difficult and the beautiful parts of contemporary Indian life into his story, never once falling into stereotypes or easy answers but also not shying away from the horrors caused by cycles of violence.”-Rebecca Roanhorse, bestselling author of Trail of Lightning and Black Sun “Fans of Stephen King's It and Peter Straub's Ghost Story should find plenty to love in this tale of friends who are haunted by a supernatural entity they first encountered in their youth.” -Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of Mexican Gothic

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