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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Saga. Mar. 2025. 448p. ISBN 9781668075081. $29.99. HORROR
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Etsy Beaucarne is a professor under pressure to publish more, thereby securing tenure. When a dayworker finds a 1912 manuscript written by Arthur Beaucarne, an unknown relative, she may have found a way. Arthur’s journal tells of his life as a pastor while transcribing the account of Good Stab, a man from the Blackfoot Nation who says he is a vampire. These three distinct narrative voices are layered within the novel, and each voice contributes to a compelling story that draws readers forward, even as the terror increases. The horrors of historical atrocities are described while also bringing readers along in a deep exploration of identity, revenge, guilt, and the potential for hope. While this is a unique vampire story, it is also grief horror, portraying the mourning of a land and a people, inscribing profound sorrow for what was and what can never be again.
VERDICT Jones (I Was A Teenage Slasher) holds up past atrocities and their impact into the future. Highly recommended for those who enjoy historical horror with family history, such as Andy Davidson’s The Hollow Kind, or for those who loved the anthology Never Whistle at Night.
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