Stephen Graham Jones Books in Order
Browse Stephen Graham Jones books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start tips for his horror, crime, and dark fiction all in one place.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
51 books
The Fast Red Road
by Stephen Graham Jones
2000
Pidgin heads across New Mexico to bury his father, then has to chase the stolen corpse through a surreal, half-mythic West. It is wild, funny, and dangerous from the first page.
All the Beautiful Sinners
by Stephen Graham Jones
2003
Texas deputy Jim Doe chases a killer whose trail leads straight back to his sister's long-ago disappearance. It starts like a manhunt and grows stranger and darker as it goes.
Bleed into Me
by Stephen Graham Jones
2003
A collection of stories about Native life, family strain, race, and everyday violence, often with a weird or brutal turn. Jones shifts between realism and horror without ever losing the people.
The Bird is Gone
by Stephen Graham Jones
2003
In an alternate America where the Great Plains have been made Indian again, a stolen treaty could change everything. Jones turns political history into a wild, hallucinatory caper.
Seven Spanish Angels
by Stephen Graham Jones
2005
Jones blends crime, grief, and Texas unease in a dark, restless novel about damaged people circling old violence. The mood stays raw, and nobody gets to walk away clean.
Demon Theory
by Stephen Graham Jones
2006
Hale and his med school friends return to the house where his sister vanished, only to find a horror story waiting for them. Jones frames it like a lost movie trilogy brought terrifyingly to life.
Ledfeather
by Stephen Graham Jones
2008
On the Blackfeet reservation, Doby Saxon stands in the road and tries to do something impossible, change history. Jones builds a tense, time-bent novel out of family, vengeance, and the weight of the past.
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
by Stephen Graham Jones
2008
Reality, games, grief, and a father's absence collapse into each other as Nolan Dugatti runs through a fractured world that will not hold still. It is strange, funny, and genuinely unsettling.
It Came from Del Rio
by Stephen Graham Jones
2010
Dodd Raines comes shuffling back into Texas, bunny head and all, forcing a reckoning with the border patrol daughter he left behind. Jones makes the weird setup funny, sad, and surprisingly tender.
The Ones That Got Away
by Stephen Graham Jones
2010
This collection gathers dark stories about loss, fear, family, and the terrible bargains people make under pressure. Jones moves from intimate menace to outright horror without losing the human core.
Growing Up Dead in Texas
by Stephen Graham Jones
2012
A man looks back on a west Texas childhood shaped by rumor, fear, and an old death that never settled. Part mystery, part memory piece, it turns hometown nostalgia into something raw and unsettling.
The Last Final Girl
by Stephen Graham Jones
2012
Lindsay survived one masked killer, but survival is not enough in a town full of final girls and slasher rules. Jones turns the genre inside out without losing the blood or the fun.
Three Miles Past
by Stephen Graham Jones
2012
This dark collection moves through highways, small towns, and intimate relationships that keep sliding toward horror. Jones mixes tenderness, menace, and the sense that the world is stranger than it looks.
Zombie Bake-Off
by Stephen Graham Jones
2012
A Texas bake-off turns into a locked-room bloodbath when infected doughnuts turn pro wrestlers into zombies. It is fast, ridiculous, and exactly as messy as that setup promises.
Flushboy
by Stephen Graham Jones
2013
A sixteen-year-old working the window at his father's drive-through urinal has to juggle floods, the urine mafia, and a failing love life. Somehow it is both gross-out funny and unexpectedly sweet.
Sterling City
by Stephen Graham Jones
2013
A compact novella that turns a hard Texas setting into a pressure cooker of bad choices, memory, and danger. Jones keeps the scale small, then lets the unease do the real work.
The Least of My Scars
by Stephen Graham Jones
2013
William Colton Hughes is a serial killer with a voice you cannot trust and appetites he can barely contain. Jones makes the book funny, revolting, and unnervingly intimate.
Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth
by Stephen Graham Jones
2013
A pulp-charged collection of stories full of sharp humor, horror energy, and sudden turns into the bizarre. The title tells you a lot about the spirit of the book, fast, weird, and happily unruly.
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
by Stephen Graham Jones
2014
These stories live in the dark corners after ordinary life slips out of focus. Jones mixes grief, menace, and the uncanny in a collection where the quiet moments can be the most frightening.
Chapter Six
by Stephen Graham Jones
2014
This short piece imagines how anthropologists might respond to the apocalypse once zombies arrive. Jones turns an academic angle into a sly, unsettling end-of-the-world story.
Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly
by Stephen Graham Jones
2014
Mary sees a strange boy float up from a tree, then learns her younger brother may be caught in the same impossible mystery. She has to protect him before the adults around them lose control.
Not for Nothing
by Stephen Graham Jones
2014
Disgraced detective Nicholas Bruiseman returns to his hometown to work security at a storage facility and stumbles into a murder case full of old classmates and older ghosts. The noir voice is sharp and bitter.
States of Grace
by Stephen Graham Jones
2014
These stories circle faith, damage, grace, and the people left trying to survive afterward. Jones moves easily between the ordinary and the uncanny, always keeping one foot in lived experience.
The Elvis Room
by Stephen Graham Jones
2014
A research scientist finds proof of something supernatural and has to decide whether to hide it or tell the world. Either way, the discovery is going to haunt him.
The Gospel of Z
by Stephen Graham Jones
2014
Ten years after the zombie apocalypse, Jory Gray goes looking for the woman he loves and uncovers the secret history behind the end of the world. The real danger may be the truth itself.
The Faster Redder Road
by Stephen Graham Jones
2015
This selected volume offers a wide sample of Jones's range, with stories, excerpts, and framing material that show how restless his fiction can be. It is a strong way to explore his earlier work.
Mongrels
by Stephen Graham Jones
2016
An unnamed boy comes of age in a drifting family of werewolves who live on the edge of every town they enter. It is a monster novel, but even more a family novel.
The Night Cyclist
by Stephen Graham Jones
2016
A middle-aged chef's routine bike ride home is broken by an encounter that should not be there in the dark. Jones gets a lot of fear out of one road, one rider, and one wrong moment.
Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham Jones
2017
A twelve-year-old boy thinks he sees his dead father inside the house, then discovers the house is bigger and stranger than it should be. It is a ghost story about poverty, family, and danger.
My Hero
by Stephen Graham Jones
2017
A superhero comic idea born in childhood becomes a strange, personal meditation on friendship, art, and what happens when dreams really do come true. It is part graphic story, part reflection.
Attack of the 50 Foot Indian
by Stephen Graham Jones
2020
When a fifty-foot-tall Indian man rises from the sea, governments, media, and the military scramble to explain him. Jones uses giant-monster energy to slice into stereotype and spectacle.
Night of the Mannequins
by Stephen Graham Jones
2020
A prank involving a mannequin goes horribly wrong, and suddenly nobody can tell whether the danger is supernatural, human, or both. The story is short, fast, and deeply off-kilter.
The Midnight Exhibit, Vol. 1
by Stephen Graham Jones
2020
This first volume opens a gallery of dark comics and strange exhibits, each one leading to a new nightmare. It is built for readers who like their horror quick, visual, and varied.
The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
2020
Four Blackfeet men are hunted by the consequences of an elk hunt that should never have happened. Jones turns guilt, friendship, and community into a relentless supernatural revenge story.
Wait for Night
by Stephen Graham Jones
2020
A construction site by the creek feels wrong long before dark, and night only makes it worse. In a few pages, Jones builds a sharp little nightmare out of place, dread, and what may be waiting underground.
Memorial Ride
by Stephen Graham Jones
2021
This graphic novel turns grief, motion, and memory into a lean visual story with a hard, propulsive edge. Jones uses the road and the ride to keep loss close at every turn.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones
2021
Jade Daniels, a slasher-obsessed teenager in Proofrock, Idaho, spots the signs of a real killing spree before anyone else does. Her movie logic may be the town's best chance of surviving.
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
by Stephen Graham Jones
2022
Two years after a bad breakup, Jenna finds what may be the perfect tool for revenge, a bloodthirsty Camaro. It is a lean revenge story with horror muscle under the hood.
The Babysitter Lives
by Stephen Graham Jones
2022
A high school senior takes a babysitting job in a house with a grim past and finds the night spiraling into terror. Jones uses the familiar setup to mix haunted-house dread with teenage pressure and survival.
The Backbone of the World
by Stephen Graham Jones
2022
Millie Two Bears is living alone in the Blackfeet Nation when prairie dogs invade her land and a stranger enters her life. The story turns survival, vengeance, and isolation into slow-building pressure.
Conan: Lord of the Mount
by Stephen Graham Jones
2023
Conan heads into a mountain stronghold where brute force alone will not solve the danger waiting there. Jones brings speed, blood, and a grim sense of momentum to the sword-and-sorcery setup.
Don't Fear the Reaper
by Stephen Graham Jones
2023
Jade Daniels returns to a frozen Proofrock just as a notorious killer arrives and the bodies start piling up again. The sequel widens the story without losing its sharp slasher edge.
I Was A Teenage Slasher
by Stephen Graham Jones
2024
In 1989 west Texas, seventeen-year-old Tolly Driver is cursed into becoming a killer and tells the story himself. Jones flips the slasher script by putting readers inside the monster's head.
Parthenogenesis
by Stephen Graham Jones
2024
When their rental truck breaks down, two friends waiting at a motel pass the time by telling stories about a strange carving outside. Jones turns a roadside delay into layered, creeping unease.
The Angel of Indian Lake
by Stephen Graham Jones
2024
After years in prison, Jade Daniels returns to Proofrock for one last reckoning with the town, the lake, and everything still unfinished. The trilogy closes on grief, fury, and hard-won survival.
The Belle of the Ball
by Stephen Graham Jones
2025
In a future where time travel has been made consequence-free, a young man decides to visit his parents two years earlier. That simple choice gives Jones plenty of room for trouble.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
2025
Across 1870, 1912, and 2012, an aging pastor and a Blackfeet vampire circle history, justice, and blood. Jones turns vampire fiction into something haunted by the American West.
The Indigo Room
by Stephen Graham Jones
2025
A strange room becomes the center of an eerie, intimate nightmare about memory and perception. Jones keeps the setup spare, then lets the unease spread until even ordinary space feels unsafe.
The Ones Who Got Away: Stories
by Stephen Graham Jones
2025
This collection gathers dark stories about loss, fear, and the terrible bargains people make under pressure. Jones moves from intimate menace to outright horror without losing the human core.
Why Horror
by Stephen Graham Jones
2025
Jones digs into the pull of horror itself, asking why fear stories matter and why readers keep returning to them. It reads like criticism and personal reflection at the same time.
Off the Reservation
by Stephen Graham Jones
2026
Set after The Only Good Indians, this follow-up returns to Blackfeet country as old wounds start moving again. Jones goes back to unfinished business instead of easy closure.
Where should I start?
If you want a great first horror novel: The Only Good Indians → My Heart Is a Chainsaw
If you want the full slasher trilogy: My Heart Is a Chainsaw → Don't Fear the Reaper → The Angel of Indian Lake
If you want monsters with heart: Mongrels → Mapping the Interior
If you want his earlier, wilder side: The Fast Red Road → Demon Theory → Ledfeather
Author bio
Stephen Graham Jones was born in Midland, Texas, in 1972, and grew up mostly in West Texas. He is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe, but the landscapes that first shaped him as a person and later as a writer were cotton fields, oil towns, long roads, and the flat, windy reaches of the plains.
For a long time, he did not expect writing to be his life.
He has said that as a kid he wanted to farm, not become a professor or novelist. Reading started to matter to him early, and writing followed not long after. He studied at Texas Tech, earned a master's degree at the University of North Texas, then completed a PhD at Florida State in 1998.
His first publication came while he was in graduate school. Later, his dissertation became The Fast Red Road, his debut novel, a book that immediately showed how willing he was to bend genre, fracture form, and push against easy ideas about what Native fiction or horror should look like.
Then life shoved him sideways. After graduate school he worked warehouse jobs, including a stretch moving appliances at Sears, and a back injury helped push him toward desk work, teaching, and the writing life he had not quite planned so directly.
He has never stayed in one lane.
Many readers first meet him through The Only Good Indians, which takes guilt, friendship, tradition, and an old hunting trip and turns them into something brutal and unforgettable. Others come in through My Heart Is a Chainsaw and the Indian Lake trilogy, where Jade Daniels uses slasher movie logic to read the danger gathering around her Idaho town. Mongrels is another favorite, a werewolf novel that is also funny, sad, and deeply about family, while shorter books like Mapping the Interior and Night of the Mannequins show how much force he can pack into a small space.
What links all that work is not one genre but a way of seeing. Jones writes horror, crime, science fiction, westerns, comics, and books that sit between categories, but his stories keep returning to outsiders, working people, kids growing up fast, the pressure of history, and the strange ways pop culture can become a survival language. West Texas keeps showing up. So do Montana and Blackfeet life, basketball courts, highways, old trucks, and homes that never feel fully safe.
The wider reading public caught up slowly, then all at once. He has received an NEA fellowship and multiple Bram Stoker Awards, and The Only Good Indians also won the Ray Bradbury Prize. Since 2008 he has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he lives with his wife and children. Even now, there is something refreshingly unvarnished about him on the page and off it. He still feels like a writer who loves stories first, whether they come from horror movies, comics, family memory, or one unsettling thought that will not let go.
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