The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (First Edition, Signed)

A Blackfeet vampire, a Lutheran pastor’s 1912 diary found inside a wall, and a reckoning with the buffalo hunters: Stephen Graham Jones’s award-sweeping novel, signed.

The vampire novel has existed, in one form or another, for two centuries. From Polidori’s The Vampyre through Le Fanu’s Carmilla to Stoker’s Dracula, and through Anne Rice’s chronicles into modern literature, the vampire has remained a beloved figure. It has carried the anxieties of each age: sexuality, the foreign and the Other, class and inheritance, the persistence of the past. Stephen Graham Jones, a Native American author whose earlier books include The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw, turns it to a new purpose.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a Blackfeet revenge story set in Montana in 1912. Arthur Beaucarne, a Lutheran pastor, records in his diary the confession of Good Stab, a Pikuni man and vampire. Generations later, an academic descendant, Etsy Beaucarne, finds the diary inside a wall and sees her chance to publish. Good Stab’s account runs from the Marias Massacre and the slaughter of the buffalo to the present of his telling. The buffalo hunters are the true monsters, and the horror is inseparable from the documented history of what the United States did to the Indigenous peoples of the northern plains.

Its reception has been exceptional. The novel won the Bram Stoker Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel, both for 2025, and the 2026 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel. It was a New York Times 100 Notable Book of 2025, a Barack Obama summer read and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. NPR called it a “horror masterpiece”, and Jones has spent his career doing with genre fiction what the genre did not know it could do.

The American edition appeared on 18 March 2025, and Titan Books issued the first UK edition on 29 April. This is the special edition, signed by Jones to the front endpapers.

First UK edition, special signed Titan edition. Signed by the author to the front endpapers. Full number line to copyright page. Black sprayed edges. Octavo. 443, [i] pp. Original publisher's cloth. Unclipped dust jacket. Impeccably preserved, presenting as new. A Fine copy.

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Catalogue Number: HH000448