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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Bram Stoker · 2022 · WinnerShirley Jackson · 2021 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel | 2022 | Winner | |
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novel | 2021 | Winner | “Jones's second consecutive SJA win recognized this genre-obsessed, deeply compassionate slasher novel for its love of horror cinema and its honest portrayal of the protagonist's Indigenous identity and inner life.” |
About This Book
Jade Daniels—a half-Blackfeet outsider in a small Idaho lake town—is obsessed with slasher movies and becomes convinced that a real-life slasher scenario is unfolding around her. Stephen Graham Jones's second consecutive Bram Stoker Award winner is a love letter to the horror genre and a devastatingly astute portrait of marginalization.
About the Author
Stephen Graham Jones is an American author of horror fiction, celebrated as one of the most important voices in Native American horror. He won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel twice—for The Only Good Indians (2020) and My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)—as well as the Bram Stoker Award, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Locus Award. Jones is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe. Read more →
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