The Only Good Indians: A Novel

By Stephen Graham Jones

From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting social commentary on identity politics and the American Indian experience. Fans of Jordan Peele and Tommy Orange will love this story as it follows the lives of four American Indian men and their families, all haunted by a disturbing, deadly event that took place in their youth. Years later, they find themselves tracked by an entity bent on revenge, totally helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.

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Published Jan 26, 2021

336 pages

Average rating: 6.86

369 RATINGS

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Readers say *The Only Good Indians* is a chilling, intense horror novel blending cultural themes with slasher elements and surreal imagery. Reviewers ...

foxland
8/10 stars
4 stars for being the absolute strangest horror concept I've ever read. I really did not know how to feel for the entire book.

But let me tell you, imagining a woman with an elk head morphing back and forth was sufficiently creepy enough to keep me reading.
Groundhogcat
8/10 stars
Wow! Chilling tale.

Four Native Americans massacre elk in an illegal hunt and in the process also kill an unborn elk calf.

Ten years later they are being hunted by some unknown entity hellbent on revenge.

Do these men deserve what happens to them? Maybe? The four men could be any man who kills just for the heck of it. They did not give any thought as to if it was okay to kill those elk. They killed the elk because they could.
literarily_occupied
8/10 stars
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Bibliofiend62
6/10 stars
A story of how an act of violence against nature can result in dire consequences.
Books-n-more
8/10 stars
I really liked the creep factor and the animalistic retribution.

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