My Heart Is a Chainsaw

Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel · 2022 · WinnerShirley Jackson Award for Novel · 2021 · Winner

Saga PressAugust 31, 2021horrorISBN 9781982137649

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 JonesUS

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 →