The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, 448 pages.

A Lutheran pastor in remote Montana receives a strange visitor who has an even stranger confession. Over the course of weeks the strange Blackfeet man spins a tale of tragedy and revenge on the American frontier at the end of the 19th century, a tale which it becomes increasingly obvious intersects with the pastors own sins, decades past. His visitor has confessed to killing many, many people, and he feels his own dread grow as he wonders what fate awaits him.

I wanted to like this book more than I actually liked it. I thought the story was solid, and I enjoyed the pastor's journal as a framing device for the story. I also thought that the nature of the revenge story was very effective, and I quite like vampire stories with a social justice aspect. Unfortunately, the sum total felt sort of emotionally sterile, which is the last thing you want in horror. I found the atmosphere entirely lacking, and it made it a little difficult to really get into the story. This had the potential to be a really great  book, but unfortunately it didn't quite work for me.