“This is the most American horror novel I have ever read.” – Grady Hendricks Stephen Graham Jones is the author of 15 novels and 6 short story collections in the horror, science fiction, experimental, and crime genres. He is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award and is a four-time This Is Horror Award winner, a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. Almost never published in Russian. Jones is a full-blooded Blackfeet Indian. He really loves werewolves and slasher movies. Although his list of favorite books changes daily, it always includes Dick's VALIS and the western Lonesome Dove. Jones is a literature professor at Colorado State University. He lives in Boulder, is married, has a bunch of kids and a couple of trucks. “Fans of King's It and Straub's A Ghost Story should love this book: a story about friends being haunted by a supernatural being. which they encountered in their youth." – Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Nebula Award finalist “This is a revenge thriller, akin to a monster movie, and a meditation on the inevitable, latent influence of the past. A gripping, deeply disturbing novel." – Carmen Maria Machado, laureate of the. Shirley Jackson Four childhood friends meet every year. They go on a deer hunt to forget about it until next year. A common thing, a common trophy – it’s always been that way. Until this time. Ten years have passed. Something begins to haunt these people who have forgotten their heritage. A fierce, vengeful spirit comes to everyone, one after another. Nature takes revenge on the lost generation, which already has no chance.