"At once an homage to the horror genre and a searing indictment of the brutal legacy of Indigenous genocide in America, Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw delivers both dazzling thrills and visceral commentary... Jones takes grief, gentrification and abuse to task in a tale that will terrify you and break your heart all at the same time."
― Time

"He's a master of that creepy, anxious feeling... Through Jade, Jones shows off his extensive knowledge of the genre and pays homage to some of the greatest slasher films of all time, while tying it all into ideas about gentrification and life as an Indian in America. It’s wickedly suspenseful and incredibly clever."
― Tor.com

A brilliantly crafted, heartbreakingly beautiful slasher.
– Booklist starred review

Horror fans [will] be blown away by this audacious extravaganza.
― Publishers Weekly starred review

Meticulously crafted horror [with a] vivid, moving, gory end.
– Library Journal starred review

A brilliantly crafted, heartbreakingly beautiful slasher.
– Booklist starred review

This extraordinary novel is an essential purchase.
― Library Journal, Starred Review

A methodically paced story where every detail both entertains and matters .Brilliantly crafted, heartbreakingly beautiful.
― Becky Spratford, Booklist, Starred Review

An homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre. You don't have to be a slasher fan to read My Heart is a Chainsaw, but I guarantee that you will be after you read it.
― Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger

Brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable. It's everything I never knew I needed in a horror novel.
― Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens

A frantic, gory whodunnit mystery, with an ending both savage and shocking. Don't say I didn't warn you!
― Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and Red Hands

An easy contender for Best of the Year. It left me stunned and applauding.
― Brian Keene, World Horror Convention Grandmaster Award-winning author of The Rising and The Damned Highway

A captivating story ... It’s both a heartfelt love letter and a fresh take, making you fall in love while shredding your heart
― Bloody Disgusting

PRAISE FOR STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES

Fans of Stephen King's It and Peter Straub's Ghost Story should find plenty to love in this tale of friends who are haunted by a supernatural entity they first encountered in their youth.
-  Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of Mexican Gothic

Jones boldly and bravely incorporates both the difficult and the beautiful parts of contemporary Indian life into his story, never once falling into stereotypes or easy answers but also not shying away from the horrors caused by cycles of violence.
- Rebecca Roanhorse, bestselling author of Trail of Lightning and Black Sun

The Only Good Indians is equal parts revenge thriller, monster movie, and meditation on the inescapable undertow of the past. A gripping, deeply unsettling novel.
- Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow and author of Her Body and Other Parties

The best yet from one of the best in the business. An emotional depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, one's place in the world, what's right and what's wrong. The Only Good Indians has it all: style, elevation, reality, the unreal, revenge, warmth, freezing cold, and even some slashing. In other words, the book is made up of everything Stephen Graham Jones seemingly explores and, in turn, everything the rest of us want to explore with him.
- Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and A House at the Bottom of a Lake.

Stephen Graham Jones is a literary master who happens to write horror, and you've never read a book quite like The Only Good Indians.
- Tananarive Due, National Book Award winner, author of The Good House

The Only Good Indians is scary good. Stephen Graham Jones is one of our most talented and prolific living writers. The book is full of humor and bone chilling images. It's got love and revenge, blood and basketball. More than I could have asked for in a novel. It also both reveals and subverts ideas about contemporary Native life and identity. Novels can do some much to render actual and possible lives lived. Stephen Graham Jones truly knows how to do this, and how to move us through a story at breakneck (literally) speed. I ll never see an elk or hunting, or what a horror novel can do the same way again.
- Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize finalist of There There

The Only Good Indians is the most American horror novel I've ever read. Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival, grappling with themes of cultural identity, family, and traditions.
- Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course.
- Buzzfeed

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.
- Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW