The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

A novel

Pages: 435
Published: 2025
Language: English

In 1912 Montana, a Lutheran pastor named Arthur Beaucarne begins transcribing the confession of a Blackfeet man called Good Stab, who arrives at his church night after night to tell an impossible story. Good Stab is old beyond reckoning, and what he describes is a life turned monstrous: a man made into a blood-drinker, moving through the vanishing world of the Blackfeet as buffalo herds and people alike are slaughtered by white settlers and soldiers.

As the confession unspools, it circles a real historical atrocity—a massacre that left more than two hundred Blackfeet dead in the snow—and the terrible, patient vengeance it set in motion. Framed as an unearthed diary read by a present-day descendant, the novel braids past and present into a single accusatory reckoning.

A historical horror epic by Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a vampire story unlike any other: a furious, sorrowful meditation on genocide, memory, and survival in the American West.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Dark Gritty Atmospheric Tense Melancholic

Revenge Dual Timeline Epistolary

Fantasy Horror Paranormal Historical Fiction Vampire Literary Fiction Folklore

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972, in Midland, Texas) is an American author of horror, crime and speculative fiction, and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation. He holds a B.A. from Texas Tech University, an M.A. from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University, and is the Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 2008. His novels include The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and The Bu...