Stephen Graham Jones

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2000
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Earthdivers

1 - Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus (Sep-2023)
2 - Earthdivers, Vol. 2: Ice Age (Mar-2024)

Jade Daniels / Indian Lake

1 - My Heart Is a Chainsaw (Jan-2021)
2 - Don't Fear the Reaper (Feb-2023)
3 - The Angel of Indian Lake (Apr-2024)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • The Fast Red Road

    The Fast Red Road -- A Plainsong is a novel which plunders, in a gleeful, two-fisted fashion, the myth and pop-culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a story fueled on pot fumes and blues, borrowing and distorting the rigid conventions of the...

  • The Bird is Gone

    Imagine a world where the American government signed a conservation act to "restore all indigenous flora and fauna to the Great Plains," which means suddenly the Great Plains are Indian again. Now fast-forward fourteen years to a bowling alley deep i...

  • All the Beautiful Sinners

    Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe plunges into a renegade manhunt after the Nazareth, Texas town sheriff is gunned down. But unbeknownst to him, the suspect-an American Indian-holds chilling connections to the disappearance of Doe's sister years before. And the...

  • Seven Spanish Angels

    Seven Spanish Angels is a pitch-perfectly streamlined first-person crime novel that features the most engaging lead character to come out of a forensic crime lab since Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta.

    After painstakingly building a career f...

  • Bleed into Me

    We stare at each other because we don't know which tribe, and then nod at the last possible instant. Standard procedure. You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to stand you up by another Indian, arrange you like fur...

  • Demon Theory

    Following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother on Halloween night, Hale and six of his med school classmates return to the house where his sister disappeared years ago only to find a chilling surprise in store for them. Written as a liter...

  • Ledfeather

    After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with The Fast Red Road and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian ...

  • The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti

    "Suicide notes from a father who can't quite manage to kill himself, the nine final hours of customer support at a help desk for a video game no one has played in almost a decade, train-length, time-traveling, hyper-adaptive super-centipedes, lethal ...

  • It Came From Del Rio

    There are borders and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday. Then there's the borders he's made. Between himself and his estranged daughter, the border patro...



  • The Ones That Got Away

    • These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy’s summer romance doesn’t end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who’s exactly what she needs, except then that...

  • Zombie Bake-Off

    It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gather to show off their family recipes, learn new secrets for the perfect shortcake, and perhaps earn a chance to be on the famous cooking show, How Wou...

  • Growing Up Dead in Texas

    PUBLISHER'S WEEKLYJones combines memoir and mystery in his latest novel (after Zombie Bake-Off), returning to his hometown of Greenwood, Texas, to explore a decades-old crime that would rend a community irrevocably asunder. In 1985, when the author ...

  • The Last Final Girl

    "The Last Final Girl is like Quentin Tarantino's take on The Cabin in the Woods. Bloody, absurd, and smart. Plus, there's a killer in a Michael Jackson mask." - Carlton Mellick III, author of Apeshit

    Life in a slasher film is easy. You just...

  • Three Miles Past

    A collection of three powerfully disturbing novellas by multiple award-winning author, Stephen Graham Jones.

    There are lines that probably shouldn't be crossed, doors that should stay shut, thoughts that shouldn't be considered. In these thr...

  • Flushboy

    "My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt." -- PopMatters

    So there's video footage of me not washing my hands in the bathroom a...

  • Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth

    If you've never been inside a giant space lobster, well. I don't recommend it.

    "Mixing doughnuts and the walking dead proves to be a deadly combination in Stephen Graham Jones' latest novel, Zombie Bake-Off, a slim volume of experime...

  • The Least of My Scars

    You haven't heard of William Colton Hughes. Or, if you have, then you're not telling anybody. Not telling them anything, ever. He's not the serial killer on the news, in the textbooks. He's the one out there still punching his card, and a few other p...

  • The Gospel of Z

    The only thing more dangerous than zombies is the truth. In the ten years since zombies killed the world, Jory Gray has found exactly one person who matters. Her name is Linse. But when he wakes to find her gone, to join the church, his world fall...

  • Not for Nothing

    "My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt." -- PopMatters

    A novel written in second person. The town is Stanton, Texas, populat...



  • States of Grace

    Fiction. Native American Studies. Stephen Graham Jones' first collection of flash fiction, STATES OF GRACE, is aptly named: these stories balance drama, play, and puissance, like forty-nine high-wire feats. While some stories arc through the briefest...

  • The Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly

    Mary's life is going fine. Except for being a freshman in high school. And having anxiety attacks. And her dad having no job. So, introduce one boy who can fly, kidnap the little brother she's supposed to be babysitting, and drop a military quaran...

  • Sterling City

    A moon explodes and a marriage dies. An impossible creature rises from the tall grass, watches a farmer's circle system crawl across the field like a giant insect. That farmer watches back. His wife's footprints are there in the dirt. The fire in the...

  • Chapter Six

    "Chapter Six", by Stephen Graham Jones, is an anthropological zombie story about Crain, a grad student, who has a theory of mankind's evolution. As he and his former professor scavenge on bone marrow left behind by the local zombie horde, he makes...

  • Washed in the Blood

    The scene of his mother's gruesome death greets high school senior Cooper as he arrives home from illegally killing a pregnant doe in the wilds of west Texas. In grief and with a sense of helpless guilt, Cooper begins to uncover the details of his mo...

  • The Big Click: July 2014

    In our special Bizarro Crime issue we start things off with Cameron Pierce's "Drop the World," the tale of a young woman hoping to heal her life through taking hits to the face in the boxing ring. Then, Stephen Graham Jones gives us a helpful tutoria...

  • After the People Lights Have Gone Off

    WINNER, Best Collection of the Year, THIS IS HORRORNOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, BRAM STOKER AWARDSNOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDSThe fifteen stories in After the People Lights Have Gone O...

  • The Faster Redder Road

    This 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 excerpts from Jones's novels--including The Last Final Girl, The F...

  • Mongrels

    A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them. He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. P...

  • The Night Cyclist

    "The Night Cyclist" by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose nightly bicycle ride home is interrupted by an unexpected encounter.

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights...



  • My Hero

    What do you do when your dreams come true? When you were twelve, camping out in the back yard, you told your best friend that if he could draw a superhero good enough, you’d give him the perfect words to say. And then it didn’t just happen, th...

  • Mapping the Interior

    Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones brings readers a spine-tingling Native American horror novella. Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who c...

  • The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 1

    Wealthy couple drunkenly ditch their car and a strange tow truck driver regales them with off-putting stories, stories relating strangely to their personal lives. With short fiction by Stephen Graham Jones (Mongrels, Mapping the Interior, The Only Go...

  • Attack of the 50 Foot Indian

    Sharp, searing, with a masterful use of language, Attack of the 50 Foot Indian is a brilliant satire of the portrayal of American Indians from breakout author Stephen Graham Jones.A Tale of Two Moons.Every government of every nation debates what to d...

  • The Only Good Indians

    “One of 2020’s buzziest horror novels.” -- Entertainment Weekly “The Only Good Indians is a masterpiece. Intimate, devastating, brutal, terrifying, yet warm and heartbreaking in the best way, Stephen Graham Jones has written a horror novel a...

  • Night of the Mannequins

    Award-winning 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 supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both?...

  • Wait for Night

    Read award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones's horror story, "Wait for Night", a Tor.com Original A day laborer hired to clean up a flooded creek outside of Boulder, Colorado uncovers what could be a valuable find -- if it doesn'...

  • My Heart Is a Chainsaw

    Jade Daniels / Indian Lake - 1

    Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR​In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, New Yor...

  • Memorial Ride

    Memorial Ride is a high-speed, ragtag chase across the American Southwest. Cooper Town, an American Indian soldier, has returned from the Middle East to attend his father's funeral, make some quick cash off his father's old Harley, and spend a whirlw...

  • Men, Women, and Chainsaws

    It's been two years since Jenna's ex-boyfriend left her alone in East Texas heartbroken. Now he's back in town and she wants to payback. One night, she stumbles upon a bloodthirsty Camaro that may be the key to carrying out her revenge.At the Publish...



  • The Babysitter Lives

    Only on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw. A mother carries her six-year-old daughter into the tiled bathroom where the bathtub is already running, is still running, is overfl...

  • Don't Fear the Reaper

    Jade Daniels / Indian Lake - 2

    December 12th, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New Yo...

  • Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence

    Legendary Hardcover Edition- Exclusive Variant Dust Jacket Art- Rare Case Laminate Cover Art- 20 Premium Full Color Interior IllustrationsIn the year 2145 AD, Malcolm Orion, destined to go down in history as the Brave Traveler, made his historic jump...

  • Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus

    Earthdivers - 1

    The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his comics debut with this time-hopping horror thriller about far-future Indigenous outcasts on a mission to kill Christopher Columbus.The year is 2...

  • Lord of the Mount

    Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today’s top writers in fantasy and ...

  • Earthdivers, Vol. 2: Ice Age

    Earthdivers - 2

    Guest artist Riccardo Burchielli (DMZ) joins Stephen Graham Jones—New York Times best-selling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw—for a mission to the Ice Age exploring America’s pre-Columbian past!When Martin...

  • The Angel of Indian Lake

    Jade Daniels / Indian Lake - 3

    The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror novels picks up four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch...

Award-Winning Books by Stephen Graham Jones

The Fast Red Road
2001 Independent Publisher Book Award -- Multicultural Fiction
Mapping the Interior
2017 Bram Stoker Award -- Long Fiction
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
2021 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
2022 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
Night of the Mannequins
2020 Bram Stoker Award -- Long Fiction
The Only Good Indians
2020 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
2021 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Graham Jones has published 46 books.

The next book by Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake, will be published in April 2024.

The first book by Stephen Graham Jones, The Fast Red Road, was published in December 2000.

Yes. Stephen Graham Jones has 2 series.
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