Horror writer Stephen Graham Jones invites readers to graft their own nightmares onto his monsters. Alina Art/Tor Publishing Group hide caption Stephen Graham Jones never intended to be a writer. "I only planned to drive a tractor and be a farmer," he says. Jones, a member of the Blackfeet Nation from Midland, Texas, saw either oil fields or cornfields in his future. But he always knew he had the chops to tell a good story.