“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.” Much blood was spilled forming the American West into what it is today, so perhaps it should be no surprise this setting would make such fertile ground for a vampire tale. When I heard that Stephen Graham Jones—who has quickly become one of my favorite horror authors (check out my reviews of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher)—was coming out with a historical vampire novel, I knew it would be right up my alley. When The Buffalo Hunter Hunter came out last March, I went to a release event at The Strand in New York City and got a signed copy of the special edition with red sprayed edges. I savored the book slowly all through the fall until last week when I got to the point where I had to stay up until 1:00am to see how it would end. Though this is my very first book review of 2026, I can already tell that The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is going to end up on my favorites of the year list. Continue reading Review of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter—Vampires in the Wild West
Month: January 2026
Books I’m Excited for in 2026
The new year is already well under way, but there’s still plenty of time to add to your 2026 TBR! As I like to do every year, I have combed through book announcements and publishers’ lists to bring you ten of my most anticipated releases for the year. The titles below range from pure horror to fantasy to cozy sci-fi, with some dashes of mystery and romance.
But before I dive into my list, I first want to note that January has been dubbed International Gothic Reading Month by the Society for the Study of the American Gothic. A committee of Gothic fiction authors have put together an extensive reading list and are spending the month encouraging more people to experience the somber joys of Gothic literature. Check out their home page here, and peruse their suggested readings while you wait for the books below to be released. Here at The Gothic Library, every month is Gothic Reading Month, but I’d love to see IGRM get more people into the genre! And now, onto this year’s new releases that I am most excited for: Continue reading Books I’m Excited for in 2026