Mapping the Interior

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

The New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones, brings readers a spine-tingling journey through a young boy's haunted home. Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction!

"A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant."
—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie

Walking through his own house at night, a young boy thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. The figure reminds him of his long-dead father, who drowned mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows, it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he ever knew.

The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his younger brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at a terrible cost.

"Brilliant." —The New York Times

Also by Stephen Graham Jones:
Night of the Mannequins

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

Critic reviews

WINNER OF THE 2017 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION • NOMINATED FOR THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLA!

"Brilliant."
—The New York Times

"A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant. You will not be unmoved. You will not be unaffected. It's a ghost story in the truest, darkest, most melancholy sense. Stephen knows we are haunted by our parents, our families, and our shared pasts as much as we are haunted by ourselves; haunted by who we were, who we become, and who we could've been."
—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts

"Part S.E. Hinton and part Shirley Jackson. It’s about being young and broke, and that moment when you first wonder who your parents really are. The answers are out there, but they will leave you haunted forever."
—Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series and co-author of The Dead Take the A Train

"Jones’s neat little horror novella balances an energetic narrative with larger explorations of the inescapable burdens of family ties...Wonderfully refreshing and not to be missed."
—Publishers Weekly

"A darkly meditative tale of innocence, family, and ghosts that only Stephen Graham Jones could tell."
—New York Journal of Books

"Jones explores the fraught and tangled landscape of memory in its various forms — dream and nightmare, presence and absence, specter and reality — through a narrative that merges dark fantasy and horror with a classic coming-of-age story."
—Los Angeles Review of Books

"Mapping the Interior is Jones at his best."
—PANK Magazine

"A chilling tale told from a less-heard perspective, Mapping the Interior is the type of horror story you keep on your shelf for regular hauntings."
—Rue Morgue

"Mapping the Interior is thus a masterful critique of time, place, and memory in (post/de)colonial contexts that surfaces questions urgent for Native literature, horror fiction, and American history."
—World Literature Today

Perfect

Incredible story with a perfect new narration! SGJ and Shaun Taylor-Corbett are a match made in heaven.

Story was ok

I randomly put this on during my drive since it was novella length. Going to be honest, I'm not sure what I listened to or know what this was entirely about. Maybe I zoned out, maybe I'm just not smart enough to grasp what SGJ was trying to say...probably both.

I did feel Shaun Taylor-Corbett did a great job narrating. He brought the dread and suspense off the pages. Unfortunately, I just didn't really understand what was going on plotwise 😆 It could just be a me problem.

Unexpectedly amazing

I think it's deep and surreal, I was never afraid at any point, but the anticipation was definitely there. it made me sad and a little guilty, but I think that was the point.

Beautiful writing and imagery

Beautiful writing, bring out primitive feelings of grief, love, sadness, family connection, and the cyclical nature of life.