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Night of the Mannequins

Night of the Mannequins is a 2020 novella by Stephen Graham Jones. The book was released through Tordotcom and was awarded the 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction and the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella.

Night of the Mannequins
AuthorStephen Graham Jones
Audio read byGary Tiedemann
PublisherTor
Publication date
2020
Media typePrint, ebook, audiobook
ISBN9781250752079 First edition US paperback

Synopsis edit

Per the publisher's synopsis:[1]

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.

Development edit

While developing the story Stephen Graham Jones wanted to write a "short slasher, but a different kind". He chose to have the plot's action start as the result of a prank, as "When you’re writing a slasher, they always start with a prank, crime, or trespass to open the cycle of injustice". Jones wrote the story with Sawyer as the central character and narrator as he wanted to explore the concept of "the villain is the hero of his own story", as Jones wanted to know what it would be like from their point of view.[2]

Release edit

Night of the Mannequins was first published in paperback and ebook formats in the United States on September 1, 2020 through Tordotcom.[3] An audiobook adaptation narrated by Gary Tiedermann was published through Tantor Audio on February 23, 2021.[4]

Reception edit

Critical reception for Night of the Mannequins has been favorable. Common elements of praise centered upon the character Sawyer,[5] who Paula Guran of Locus felt was a "convincing and endearing protagonist".[6] Reviewing for Booklist, Emily Whitmore noted that the book was "a fever dream of a horror novella, where the reader is never quite sure what is happening or whom to trust."[7] The book was also reviewed for Transmotion by Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo, who compared the work to Stephen Graham Jones's The Only Good Indians, noting that "whereas The Only Good Indians signalled its ties to coloniality and Indigenous kinship principles right from the title, Mannequins, which does not identify its characters as Indigenous or otherwise, takes an approach that is perhaps easier to miss."[8]

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ Jones, Stephen Graham (2023). Don't Fear the Reaper. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1982186593.
  2. ^ Mercurio, Marisa (2020-09-17). "Stephen Graham Jones: 'If I don't get scared then I'm not playing with the right kind of fire'". Sublime Horror. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  3. ^ Publishing, Tor com. "Night of the Mannequins". Tordotcom Publishing. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  4. ^ Jones, Stephen Graham (2020). Night of the Mannequins. Tordotcom. ISBN 9781705282427.
  5. ^ Gilliand, Blu (2020-06-26). "Review: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones". Cemetery Dance Online. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  6. ^ "Paula Guran Reviews Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones". Locus Online. 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  7. ^ Whitmore, Emily (2020). "Night of the Mannequins (review)". Booklist.
  8. ^ Diabo, Gage Karahkwiio (2023-01-29). "Review Essay: Little Books, Big Horror". Transmotion: 164–171 Pages. doi:10.22024/UNIKENT/03/TM.1073.
  9. ^ Templeton, Molly (2021-06-01). "Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". Tor.com. from the original on 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
  10. ^ "2020 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Online. 2021-05-24. from the original on 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2022-07-06.

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