Just Read: MAPPING THE INTERIOR by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is a one-click author for me, but this grief-stricken ghost story has long escaped my reading list—until now. MAPPING THE INTERIOR won the 2017 Bram Stoker Award® for Long Fiction, and has been updated for a brand new edition coming April 9, 2025 from Tor.com. Part ghost-story, part coming-of-age, there is an incredible amount of powerful storytelling packed into fifty or so pages. It’s hard to define the exact type of sadness that haunts these pages, but it’s the sort that finds you at your core. One of Jones’s best. Quintessential reading, for sure.
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he 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 little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.
MAPPING THE INTERIOR is available from Stephen Graham Jones and Tor.com now, with the new edition available April 9!
