Mapping the Interior
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Publisher Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, brings readers a spine-tingling journey through a young boy's haunted home. Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction!
"A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant."
—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie
Walking through his own house at night, a young boy thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. The figure reminds him of his long-dead father, who drowned mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows, it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he ever knew.
The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his younger brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at a terrible cost.
"Brilliant." —The New York Times
Also by Stephen Graham Jones:
Night of the Mannequins
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jones's neat little horror novella balances an energetic narrative with larger explorations of the inescapable burdens of family ties. A young boy, Junior, who's dealing with his brother's deteriorating mental condition and constant seizures, begins to see visions of his dead father in his labyrinthine house. Junior wrestles with his Native American heritage, calling into question his family's failures and his own sense of justice as his father's sinister purpose is revealed to the family. Jones weaves these meditations through the entirety of the novella, and his writing, at once electric and elegiac, keeps the reader firmly in a state of suspense. The central idea of the novella could have been expanded and elaborated on, but part of the charm of this piece is its brevity, and Jones still imbues it with emotional depth. The immediacy of Jones's fiction is wonderfully refreshing and not to be missed.
