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; Don't Fear the Reaper).
In 2012, Etsy Beaucarne is struggling to publish a book that will earn her tenure when the diary of her great-great-great grandfather Arthur, who vanished in 1912, is discovered in a wall. As documented in the diary, 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. In a series of conversations, 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 even in Etsy's day, 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. Arthur's diary entries and the history the Blackfeet stranger tells him would be gripping enough on their own, but their ramifications for Etsy only heighten the stakes. Fans of westerns and vampires should snatch this up. --Kristen Allen-Vogel, information services librarian at Dayton Metro Library