A long-hidden diary in which a Lutheran pastor records a strange confession reveals a mysterious horror with repercussions that span centuries in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, the chilling and original vampire novel from Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians).
In the 20th century, Arthur's small Montana town is shocked by the discovery of an exsanguinated corpse. Soon after, a Blackfeet stranger appears among Arthur's congregation during the Sunday service and asks to make his confession. The stranger, named Good Stab, recounts a story that begins with a massacre and his encounter with a creature he calls the Cat Man, after which he can consume only blood. As the confession continues and more bodies appear, it becomes clear that Good Stab is in this specific church for a purpose, and the horrors of the American West's past have not been laid to rest.
Jones has built a Native American revenge narrative on the scaffolding of a highly inventive approach to vampire lore, all the more horrifying for the logic that grounds it. --Kristen Allen-Vogel, information services librarian at Dayton Metro Library