Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones
Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones
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Mapping the Interior

Author: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Unabridged: 2 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/10/2025

Synopsis

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.

About Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

About Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Shaun Michael Taylor-Corbett is an American actor, singer and writer. Taylor-Corbett is known for his roles in Jersey Boys, In the Heights by Lin Manuel Miranda, and Between Two Knees by The 1491s. He also stars as Darrell Walters in the musical he co-created, Distant Thunder, and is a prolific audiobook narrator with credits including There There by Tommy Orange, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones,an d Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie on March 31, 2023

This is a very haunting and atmospheric tale that I think many readers will interpret differently, and feel a vast range of emotions. This is ownvoices for the Native representations, and this novella stars a young boy, living on a reservation with his family, who is seeing his dead father's ghost.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on April 29, 2025

4.0 Stars This is a slow burning literary fiction horror novel. I appreciate the subtle psychological aspect of this one, dealing with familiar grief. I can be hit or miss with haunted house stories but this one didn't fit the usual tropes. Instead this one felt fresh and special. I would recommend th......more

Goodreads review by Mel (Epic Reading) on June 22, 2017

You know when you read a book and you know that at least 50% of the symbolism, comparisons, philosophy and psychology went over your head? That's what Mapping the Interior felt like to me. I know there is obviously a lot of importance and density to this novella but ask me to explain it or pull out......more

Goodreads review by Debra on March 14, 2025

Stephen Graham Jones always provides a unique reading experience. Mapping the Interior fits that bill perfectly. On the surface this book is about a fifteen-year-old native American teen, while sleepwalking one evening, sees an image of a person stepping though a doorway. He lives with his mother an......more

Goodreads review by Johann (jobis89) on January 07, 2018

"In death, he had become what he never could in life. And now he was back." While walking through his house late one night, a fifteen-year old boy thinks he sees his long-dead father stepping through a doorway. What follows is an exploration of this young boy, his family, and Native American culture.......more

Quotes

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

Awards

  • World Fantasy Award - Finalist
  • Bram Stoker Awards - Winner
  • Bram Stoker Awards - Nominee
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