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Night of the Mannequins: A Tor.com Original Paperback – Sept. 1 2020

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Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both?

We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead.

One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until it starts killing.

Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He’ll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. He'll do whatever he needs to so he can save the day. That's the thing about heroes―sometimes you have to become a monster first.

"Suffused with questions about the nature of change and friendship, “Night of the Mannequins” is a fairy tale of impermanence showcasing Graham Jones’s signature style of smart, irreverent horror." ―The New York Times

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Sept. 1 2020
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12.7 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm
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"Suffused with questions about the nature of change and friendship, “Night of the Mannequins” is a fairy tale of impermanence showcasing Graham Jones’s signature style of smart, irreverent horror." ―The New York Times

"A funny and harrowing parable about adolescent alienation that shows Jones in top form." ―The Toronto Star

"Night of the Mannequins is dark and twisted, funny, a little crazy, and unsettling as hell." ―Christopher Golden

"Sly, surprising psychic sleight-of-hand, in a tale of teenage madness where the next plastic face might be your own." ―John Skipp

"Wicked and wry, this is a terrific story by one of my favorite writers, Stephen Graham Jones. Tip-top with a twist of dread."―Joe R. Lansdale

"Propulsive and poignant, capturing the mundane terror of adolescence, and adding that ever-so-essential dab of killer mannequin." ―Sarah Langan

"Stephen Graham Jones’s range and his understanding of horror in fiction and film is staggering. In this novella he juggles―sometimes in very sly ways―slasher stories, coming of age horror, traditions of madness and unreliability, and Kaiju to create an amazingly speedy, voice-driven read that's tons of fun. Each new book of his gives his own take on a different facet of horror, and together they all add up to something really expansive and original." ―Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

"A hotter voice in horror would be hard to find these days, and Graham Jones does not disappoint, delivering another masterpiece. Give to fans of slasher or serial killer tales." ―Library Journal, starred review

"Jones tiptoes the border between supernatural and psychological horror in this weird and wild novella... Balancing horror and humor, this novella puts a clever modern twist on a classic monster story." ―Publishers Weekly

"Readers will delight more than once in the realization that they might be reading a different story from the one they thought was unfolding... trust Jones and enjoy the ride." ―Shelf Awareness

About the Author

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES was raised as pretty much the only Blackfeet in West Texas - except for his dad and grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. He now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, a couple kids, and too many old trucks. Between West Texas and now, he's published more than twenty books, including the novels The Fast Red Road, Ledfeather, and Mongrels, and the short story collections After the People Lights Have Gone Off, States of Grace, and The Ones that Got Away.

Stephen’s been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Awards for Multicultural Fiction, three This is Horror awards, and he’s made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Novels of the Year. Stephen teaches in the MFA programs at University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California Riverside-Palm Desert.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tordotcom (Sept. 1 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250752078
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250752079
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 153 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #189,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #569 in American Horror Fiction
- #588 in Native American Literature (Books)
- #3,080 in Dark Fantasy Horror Fiction

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Born and raised in Texas. In Boulder, Colorado now. Forty-nine. Blackfeet. Into werewolves and slashers, zombies and vampires, haunted houses and good stories. Would wear pirate shirts a lot if I could find them. And probably carry some kind of sword. More over at http://demontheory.net or http://twitter.com/@SGJ72

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Steve Vernon, Horror Author and Windbag at Large

More Twists and Tangles than a Barbed Wire Tourniquet

Reviewed in Canada on June 25, 2021

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Okay - so the first thing I looked at was the title.

NIGHT OF THE MANNEQUINS.

Okay, so mannequins are kind of creepy. Especially in the nighttime. Worse than clowns.

Then I read the first line in the first chapter.

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So Shanna got a new job at the movie theater, we thought we’d play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead, and I’m really starting to feel kind of guilty about it all.

That's the first freaking line of the novel.

I mean, that one line kind of kicks the door down, throws to the floor, and catches you by the throat and squeezes until your face gets all pale and choked up.

Cool, I thought to myself.

We've got a freaking mannequin walking around the town in the night.

I mean, I can get behind that.

Only that isn't the whole story.

The story gets a whole lot darker than that.

An animated mannequin - well that's just the gift-wrap on 130+ pages of mind-gripping horror. You might think you've got it figured out when you start to read and then the plot gets a little darker until you realize that you are looking at a novella with more twists and tangles than a barbed wire tourniquet.

This is dark, baby. I mean darker than midnight eclipsed in pitch black shadow.

Pick up this book. Hold your breath and jump right in.

You won't regret it.

yours in storytelling,

Steve Vernon

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Josee L.

A novella that reads like a slasher film.

Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2021

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2.5 stars
I liked the concept of this novella and it was somewhat entertaining, but ultimately I found it didn't have enough depth. I would have liked to find out more about the protaginist's friends, to know what they were thinking. Also, that twist at the end... what the heck? Again, I would have liked details. As I saw someone mention, perhaps this would have worked better as a full-length novel. I think this is really meant to read like a slasher film. If that sounds appealing to you, you'll probably enjoy it more than I did.

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Robert Elle

Lean, just the right amount of "mean"...

Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2020

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The initial breezy tone of the narrator's account of a high-school-prank gone horribly awry won't prepare you for the terrible fates of all those involved (this is very much a Stephen Graham Jones horror tale) when a mannequin won't stay lifeless, at least, so we are told! The slasher-structure helps us easily navigate the detours into various tones for such a taut, compressed endeavour--wistful, paranoid, unnervingly terrifying--that are signatures of SGJ's other humane and moving works like "Mongrels" and "The Only Good Indians".

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Strange and wonderful

Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2020

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The writing, the characters, I loved it. I don’t want to give away the plot too much here. Suffice to say that it’s an experience living in the mind of the main character as thinks through the happenings and comes up with his own twisted logic...

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TheShadesofOrange

Not Your Typical Slasher Story!

Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2020

What an entertaining and unexpected novella! This started out as a classic coming of age narrative, but quickly evolved in a brilliant slasher story.

The writing and characters were both excellent as I have come to expect from Graham Jones. His work always has a literary flair, but this one leaned more into the genre fiction with a gripping narrative plot.

As a novella, this was the perfect length. Horror works so well in the short form and this one maintained it's suspense from start to finish.

From the premise, I initially expected some killer dolls horror, but this story was very far more psychological in nature. I would love to say more about the plot, but it's best going into this one without knowing too much.

I would highly recommend this one to just about any horror reader. I think this one of those stories that will appeal to a wide audience.

Disclaimer: I received a copy from the publisher, Tor.com.

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Samantha K Krewulak

Unsettling and Unique

Reviewed in Canada on November 24, 2020

I am in love with this book. The writing is very well done, with the perspectives of these teenagers being presented in a very believable and nostalgic way. Even the games they played together were things I'd forgotten I'd done with my own childhood friends, and I commend Stephen Graham Jones for recalling these things with vivid clarity.

This is one of those books that you can't say too much about without spoiling the plot. It is terrifying and surreal. I felt like I could relate to Sawyer, which became a slippery slope in and of itself, almost like a sinkhole pulling me in with no hope of getting out.

There were some fantastic lines that synced up beautifully with what's going on in the plot and I was often awestruck by them:

"It takes real imagination to connect the dots the right way. Imagination with a little helping of guilt."

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direction you need to go, giving you secrete nods and obvious hand signals, and getting everything out of the way so you have the clearest path possible."

The pareidolia in the second quote is all too relatable and makes everything happening even more disturbing and scary. It helps that I am also terrified of mannequins. When I was a child, I would always make a point to talk nicely in front of my Barbies, lest they gang up on me and murder me in my sleep for shit-talking them or treating them poorly.

This book really connected with me and I believe I'll be reading everything Stephen Graham Jones has to offer. I also recommend reading this book during the Autumnal season because it just feels a little Halloween-ish, even though it wasn't explicitly suggested. Read it!

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Power Librarian

Delightfully peculiar!

Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2021

What a delightfully peculiar book! This novella is a psychological horror done right, and I was riveted right from the start. The author uses unsettling prose to tell us a truly horrifying story, and I loved the way that the author returned to specific imagery (no spoilers!) throughout the book.
5 stars!

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Emily Charlotte

SPOILER ALERT

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2021

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Night of the Mannequins – 1/5
By Stephen Graham Jones

[SPOILER ALERT]

I feel like this book got me expecting great things... just to be let down.

I felt like the title of this story was misleading and the blurb didn't accurately describe the story.

There was literally one mannequin in the whole book and we literally read about it for about four pages and then it was gone. I mean, basically Sawyer didn't take his meds for three days, he hallucinates a bit and then decides the mannequin has come to life – his next bit of logic is then to murder all his friends before the mannequin does.

My biggest annoyance with this book? The first sentence tells you everything that is going to happen in the book. Spoiler alert anyone?

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Thomas Joyce

A unique tale from an author who is a master of unique tales told well

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2021

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I've enjoyed everything I have read by this author, but he manages to convey something new with each story. If you read the premise of this tale, you may be expecting something very specific. But, in Jones fashion, he manages to give us something even deeper, something greater than our expectations. I felt that this story began in one direction, before quickly shifting into an altogether more disturbing direction. The voice of the main character is expertly realised. I'm not sure he qualifies as "unreliable" as we know, mostly, what he is saying and experiencing isn't the same reality as the other characters. But his thought process is brought to life thanks to Jones's fantastic storytelling ability, and the entire cast of characters are deployed beautifully. A unique tale from an author who is a master of unique tales told well.

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Stephen Howard

Great slasher, super writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2021

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This is a great piece of writing, always keeping a slight sense of unreality, of uncertainty regarding what’s really going on, all the while giving us an entertaining slasher story that feels fresh. I think it’s main strength is the narrative voice. You always feel like this is a troubled teenager, that he believes it all. Another hearty recommendation.

Richard Barber

Sometimes the hype is the killer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2021

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I'd never read anything by Stephen Graham Jones, but Night of the Mannequins kept coming up in recommendations. Maybe it just wasn't for me. That's just how it is with books; sometimes they click and sometimes they don't.
For new, there was nothing to raise this above any other number of stories.
Maybe others will fare better better with this

Jay Slayton-joslin

Fantastic, one of Jones' best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2021

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God damn what a fun time. Half Stand By Me / half Scream with a twist. SGJ's voice excels here and probably ranks in my top 3 from him, which says a lot after so many books.

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