His stories are often as bizarre as his own career origin story, having fabricated a novel upon meeting former Houghton-Mifflin editor Janet Silver at a writer’s conference. Prolificacy has been a key element to his success, contributing over twenty stories of varying length to the world of genre fiction. Agent: BJ Robbins, BJ Robbins Literary.Stephen Graham Jones has quietly amassed a following over the course of his twenty-year career writing fiction. Challenging and rewarding, this tale will thrill Jones’s fans and garner him plenty of new readers. This novel works both as a terrifying chiller and as biting commentary on the existential crisis of indigenous peoples adapting to a culture that is bent on eradicating theirs. Jones’s writing is raw, balancing on the knife-edge between dark humor and all-out gore as he forces his characters to reckon with their pasts, as well as their culture’s. As people around Lewis start to die, his paranoia about the elk mounts, leading him to acts of violence of his own. Though he doesn’t understand why the elk-shaped demon has come to haunt him, he slowly realizes it wants revenge for him distancing himself from his ancestors’ beliefs. avoided all the car crashes and jail time and alcoholism on his cultural dance card.” Then a mysterious entity in the form of an elk begins to dog Lewis’s every move. Lewis and his three childhood friends, now in their 30s, have all moved away from the soul-sucking depression of the Blackfeet Reservation where they grew up, leading Lewis to believe “he deserves some big Indian award for having. Jones ( Mapping the Interior) spins a sharp, remarkable horror story out of a crisis of cultural identity.
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