Is there an audiobook of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter?

Yes. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, and Owen Teale.

How long is the The Buffalo Hunter Hunter audiobook?

The The Buffalo Hunter Hunter audiobook runs 15 hr 29 min.

Is The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on Kindle Unlimited?

No. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 16, 2026.

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Our score

4.0/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDMarch 2026

Genres

Fiction Horror Historical Fiction

Themes

Colonial violence and the Marias MassacreRevenge across generationsWho gets to write historySurvival and endurance among the Blackfeet

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Name: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Price: 2.99 USD
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Author: Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones turns The Buffalo Hunter Hunter into a horror novel built from the actual bones of American history: a vampire who was once Blackfeet, a massacre that really happened, and a descendant transcribing the journal that ties them together. It's historical fiction with fangs, patient and vicious in equal measure.

The Review

Our take

The book arrives as paperwork before it arrives as horror. A found journal, dated 1912, gets handed to a university researcher named Etsy, who annotates it as she reads. Footnotes interrupt the narrative just often enough to remind you someone is editing this, deciding what to trust and what to flag. It's a slow way into a vampire novel, and it turns out to be the right one. By the time the actual account starts, first the pastor's own words, then a captive audience of one Blackfeet man named Good Stab, the reader has already learned to read everything twice.

Good Stab talks for pages at a stretch, working through decades of his life for an audience of one increasingly rattled pastor. He was turned during the years when U.S. cavalry were hunting the Blackfeet as thoroughly as they hunted the buffalo, and his account keeps circling back to a single winter morning: soldiers, a frozen river, over two hundred dead. Jones doesn't stage that scene as a twist. He tells you early it's coming, then makes you sit through every mile that leads there, so that when the killing finally arrives, it lands like something already grieved rather than something sprung on you.

The vampire mechanics are stripped down and mean. No capes, no seduction, no rules about mirrors. Being turned here plays closer to being poisoned: hunger that doesn't discriminate, a body that keeps living past the point where it should have stopped, teeth that show up only when they're needed. Jones uses that hunger as an engine for dread rather than spectacle. What actually unsettles is watching Good Stab ration his patience across decades, waiting for the men responsible to die slowly enough for him to notice.

The frame does cost something. Etsy's sections move in short, present-tense bursts that read almost like thriller pacing, and dropping back into Arthur's dense 1912 prose right after one of those chapters can feel like downshifting hard. A few of her scenes late in the book run long enough that the momentum Good Stab built starts to cool. The violence itself is not softened either: whippings, starvation, a massacre described in enough physical detail that it stops being historical shorthand and becomes something you sit with page by page. Anyone picking this up expecting a lean, fast horror novel should know upfront that its ambitions run closer to a generational history than a quick scare.

Which raises the trickiest question a book like this has to answer: whose story actually needed defending. Jones spends most of the novel training suspicion onto the obvious target before turning it, in the closing chapters, onto the men who got to write the history books instead of living inside them. The reveal about who has been the real predator all along takes its time and never feels engineered. It was sitting in the historical record the whole time, which is worse. Setup honored, not cheated, though the early Good Stab chapters read differently once you know where they're heading.

Why you should read

Readers who want horror grounded in real U.S. history
Fans of vampire lore reinvented outside gothic trappings
Anyone drawn to slow-burn revenge stories that pay off in full
Readers comfortable with graphic violence tied to a real massacre

What to expect

Three interlocking first-person narrators across two time periods
Dense, footnoted 1912 prose alternating with punchier modern chapters
A patient build toward a single historical massacre
Vampire rules stripped of gothic trappings, closer to affliction than myth

Close the book and what stays is Good Stab's math, not the body count. He measured his revenge out one man at a time, across decades, and the arithmetic of that patience is the most frightening thing in a novel with plenty of competition for the title.

Reviewed by Quinn · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.0/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter?: Yes. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, and Owen Teale.
Listen to The Buffalo Hunter Hunter free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the The Buffalo Hunter Hunter audiobook?: The The Buffalo Hunter Hunter audiobook runs 15 hr 29 min.
Is The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on Kindle Unlimited?: No. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 16, 2026.
How much does The Buffalo Hunter Hunter cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $2.99, Paperback $18.16, Hardcover $17.00. Prices as of August 24, 2026 at 2:20 AM EDT and may change.

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What is The Buffalo Hunter Hunter about?: The book arrives as paperwork before it arrives as horror. A found journal, dated 1912, gets handed to a university researcher named Etsy, who annotates it as she reads. Footnotes interrupt the narrative just often enough to remind you someone is editing this, deciding what to trust and what to…
Is The Buffalo Hunter Hunter worth reading?: We scored The Buffalo Hunter Hunter 4 out of 5. Stephen Graham Jones turns The Buffalo Hunter Hunter into a horror novel built from the actual bones of American history: a vampire who was once Blackfeet, a massacre that really happened, and a descendant transcribing the journal that ties them together. It's historical…