#112 in Horror
The Only Good Indians
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- Bram Stoker Award for Novel
- Alex Award
- Shirley Jackson Award for Novel
- Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
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Our view
“The Only Good Indians” is a dark, tense horror novel about revenge and friendship that also manages to move. Some readers find its structure uneven: the first half keeps to a single character’s point of view, then the story widens to a group and can lose immediacy as it does. Best for those who want horror with emotional weight and can accept a change of gear midway.
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About the book
The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones. It was written during a stay at a rented house in Colorado. It was first published on July 14, 2020, through Saga Press and Titan Books.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 481 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 76% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 13 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 468 | 97% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Only Good Indians?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 52% of the ranked books in Horror.
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