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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a Stephen Graham Jones story heavily indicated as his rendition of Anne Rice's An Interview With A Vampire, which is done through a Native American perspective. The book framework is based on the latest descendant of a Lutheran Priest, Arhur Beaucarne. Who recounts a confession from Good Stab, a Blackfeet man, who narrates his vampiric transformation and his blood-soaked life in the American West in the year 1912. After his conversion, Good Stab manages to rip and tear through the hunters and anything who satisfies his vengeance or just satisfies his appetite for blood. His rampages and his tussles with Cat Man are communicated through weighty prose filled with his language, which could cause some difficulty for new readers in understanding his rhetoric. However, while reading, you'll be intrigued by how Jones intertwines crimes committed because of colonialism within the historical tale of inhumanity and racial apathy. Likewise, Good Stab's saga will grip you as the story goes deeper with how the vampire sinks its teeth into every layer of the generational tale.
When it comes to disturbing moments contained within the tale, a possible contender could be when it reveals that Good Stab has murdered and proceeded to position every acquaintance and every member of Beaucarne's congregation within his church in a ghoulish and statuesque manner. It is a massacre that preludes a revelation that the priest had involvement in another bloodbath concerning a community of Blackfeet in the past. Nevertheless, what sticks out to me is a killing at the dugout where Good-Stab decapitates one of the Hide-Hunters with his teeth and proceeds to rip off the jaw, gorge the eyes, and split the head of the second one. What makes this brutality disturbing is that it was preceded by one of the hide-hunters sexually assaulting one of the "skinner boys" at their campsite, which shows how the mentality of predators and prey can work within the Old West.
Honestly, in the end, I thought Beacarne's revelation that he had transformed into a prairie dog was more bizarre within the narrative rather than shocking and terrifying, even if Esty's decision to put Beacarne out of his misery was unnerving when I visualized how she was doing it to spare him from living that life.
If patient with the prose, the saga can be an engrossing take on vampire mythos within a narrative that Jones developed with much research and care.
When it comes to disturbing moments contained within the tale, a possible contender could be when it reveals that Good Stab has murdered and proceeded to position every acquaintance and every member of Beaucarne's congregation within his church in a ghoulish and statuesque manner. It is a massacre that preludes a revelation that the priest had involvement in another bloodbath concerning a community of Blackfeet in the past. Nevertheless, what sticks out to me is a killing at the dugout where Good-Stab decapitates one of the Hide-Hunters with his teeth and proceeds to rip off the jaw, gorge the eyes, and split the head of the second one. What makes this brutality disturbing is that it was preceded by one of the hide-hunters sexually assaulting one of the "skinner boys" at their campsite, which shows how the mentality of predators and prey can work within the Old West.
Honestly, in the end, I thought Beacarne's revelation that he had transformed into a prairie dog was more bizarre within the narrative rather than shocking and terrifying, even if Esty's decision to put Beacarne out of his misery was unnerving when I visualized how she was doing it to spare him from living that life.
If patient with the prose, the saga can be an engrossing take on vampire mythos within a narrative that Jones developed with much research and care.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gore, Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Rape, Colonisation
Minor: Sexual assault, Excrement, Kidnapping