Stephen Graham Jones Writes Hopeful Horror

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We have two horror genre shows left and this week we bring you Stephen Graham Jones. Although not all of his books fall squarely in horror category, My Heart is a Chainsaw and Don’t Fear the Reaper are beautiful love letters to horror fans who will take much glee in all the genre conventions within which Stephen plays. The final Indian Lake Trilogy novel comes out this fall, The Angel Of Indian Lake. Kate can’t wait. Stephen brings his Blackfoot Native American culture and aspects of social justice to his writings and his writing is all the better for it. If you shy away from horror, try Mapping The Interior or The Only Good Indians. For an independent bookseller this week, we reach out to one of Stephen’s local favorites, the Boulder Bookstore in Colorado. Books mentioned in this week's episode: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones Ararat by Christopher Golden Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Come Closer by Sara Gran Collected Poems, 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg Merlin Book 1: The Lost Years by T. A. Barron The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel Biography of X by Catherine Lacey Stars Go Blue by Laura Pritchett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Welcome bookcasers. I am Kate Gibson.
0:35.4	And I'm Charlie Gibson.
0:36.6	Her father have been for quite some number of years.
0:39.4	47 of them total, actually. 47, because, you know, if it was less years than that, that would be really
0:45.2	strange because I'm 47, so that would be weird. I hope you will stay with us. It is our second to last
0:50.1	dark fiction show. I've decided we're not going to call it horror anymore. It just implies too much
0:54.4	negative stuff. So we are in our second to last dark fiction show. I'm really excited because today
0:59.0	we're talking to Stephen Graham Jones, writer of my heart as a chainsaw, the only good Indians,
1:04.6	don't fear of the Reaper. He's relatively new to the scene, but he's been widely celebrated.
1:09.9	And I think he's the first
1:12.2	dark fiction author that we've talked to that brings so much of his identity and where he comes
1:18.9	from to what he writes. And I think it adds another dimension to what he writes.
1:23.8	You had me read some that I would consider horror. That is a sav a chainsaw certainly indicates that you're going to read a book that's
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