This isn’t your run of the mill horror story. People often forget that the horror genre is more than ghosts and monsters, more than a slasher—a killer story with something to say. If you’re willing to listen, Jones has crafted a unique own voices narrative with deep social commentary that breaks away from traditional horror. ⠀
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In The Only Good Indians, Jones weaves together horror, ancestral folklore and literary symbolism in this untraditional and metaphorical nightmare. Potentially, a cautionary tale in which the sentence structure and voice can be initially jarring, the imagery not always pretty— but that’s life isn’t it?—Messy, brutal and dangerous. ⠀
The Only Good Indians has a voice that can take time and adjustments to hear clearly. Meanings you might not initially understand... but it’s a story that is bleating—stomping—BITING to be heard. Will you hear it over the train tracks?
The takeaway from this story is open to interpretations. Not a story I’ll be forgetting about anytime soon!⠀
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In The Only Good Indians, Jones weaves together horror, ancestral folklore and literary symbolism in this untraditional and metaphorical nightmare. Potentially, a cautionary tale in which the sentence structure and voice can be initially jarring, the imagery not always pretty— but that’s life isn’t it?—Messy, brutal and dangerous. ⠀
The Only Good Indians has a voice that can take time and adjustments to hear clearly. Meanings you might not initially understand... but it’s a story that is bleating—stomping—BITING to be heard. Will you hear it over the train tracks?
The takeaway from this story is open to interpretations. Not a story I’ll be forgetting about anytime soon!⠀