A multi-layered dive into the heart of a horrific secret – complete with talking cat – it received a rave review from master of the genre Stephen King, who said he hadn’t “read anything this exciting since Gone Girl”. Ward had already published two literary horror novels, Little Eve and Rawblood, when her latest work, The Last House on Needless Street, came out this year.
It’s what horror is for: finding new, boundary-breaking ways to share fear and empathy.” Jones has published over a dozen novels in the US, but The Only Good Indians was his first outing in the UK George Sandison, who acquired it for Titan, said that “one breakneck fever dream of a read later, my mind astray in the North American wilderness, thunderclouds rolling, elk breath at my neck, I realised I had to buy it”.īritish-American author Catriona Ward calls Jones: “a master stylist who takes risks with narrative boundaries, playing with the very idea of what horror is”. Stephen Graham Jones Photograph: Titan Books