Why we’re excited
Mr. Morning Gun, a disgraced history teacher now living in his car, makes a little money keeping empty houses in working order. At one of them a little girl's ghost, still dressed in lavender footie pyjamas, kills an intruder couple to save him, and keeps killing to stop the house from selling.
Stephen Graham Jones wrote The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and he is one of the most respected horror writers working now. Novellas let him be strange and fast. Horror readers wanting a short, dark and funny haunted-house story should note the date.
On our most-anticipated list since 22 October 2026. See all the most anticipated books →
What to know about Ears
We have reviewed 6 of Stephen Graham Jones’s books, with an average score of 4.0 out of 5. The one we rated highest is Off the Reservation (4★).
From the publisher
A haunted house tale by the new master of horror, Stephen Graham Jones, in which a mysterious girl in lavender footie pajamas will do anything to keep her house from being sold.
Disgraced former teacher Mr. Morning Gun survives on the margins, earning cash by checking on vacant homes waiting to be sold. His work is keep the pipes flowing and keep the houses move-in ready.
Then he arrives at the Messner House.
When a confrontation turns deadly, Morning Gun is saved by the ghost of a missing child—a girl in lavender footie pajamas who haunts her family’s home. But everything has a price, doesn’t it? What begins as a rescue soon becomes something far stranger and bloodier.
When this former teacher crawls into the hidden places of this house for answers, what he finds are more questions, ones that pertain to him. A reckoning is coming, and it starts with the flush of a toilet.
A haunting story of belonging, isolation, and the dangerous pull of home, Ears is Stephen Graham Jones at his most intimate and unnerving.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read Ears yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
