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Off the Reservation 2026

Nate Yellow Tail is one of the survivors of the deadly revenge murders of Stephen Graham Jones's breakout bestseller The Only Good Indians. Five years after the massacre on the Blackfeet reservation, Nate finds himself in the hospital after a terrible accident that should’ve killed him and that nearly killed his best friend Sebby, who is hanging onto life in a room a few doors down.

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About Stephen Graham Jones · 1972

Stephen Graham work has been included in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year vol.2, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and has been a finalist for The Shirley Jackson Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Black Quill. Jones grew up in West Texas, Ph.D'd. at Florida State University, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. *From publisher*

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