Published: Oct. 1, 2011

Part 1 of the Bunnyhead Chronicles

By Stephen Graham Jones, professor of English

Trapdoor Books

There are borders, and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday.

Then there are the borders he鈥檚 made. Between himself and his estranged daughter, the border patrol agent. Between himself and his one-time employers. And there鈥檚 another border, one he cares about even less than the Rio Grande: the border between life and death.

Used to, the shadow Dodd Raines cast when he stood dripping from that water鈥攊t was the shadow of a fugitive. But now that fugitive鈥檚 coming home, and the shadow he鈥檚 casting?

It鈥檚 got rabbit ears. Listen, you can hear the chupacabras padding along beside him鈥攖heir new master. He鈥檚 that big guy in the hood, slouching out by the gas pumps. Walking north, for justice. Austin鈥檚 never seen anything like Dodd Raines, and never will again.

Get ready.

鈥淪tephen Graham Jones crosses into the noir badlands of No Country For Old Men鈥攂loody and throwing sparks but cool as a killer angel鈥攁nd by sundown he owns the joint.鈥

鈥擶ill Christopher Baer, author of 鈥楬ell鈥檚 Half Acre鈥 and others

鈥淣o other writer could have done this. Period. Stephen Graham Jones has built a story out of radioactive scrap metal that anyone else would have rendered as kitsch. But with Jones, the diary of a rabbit-headded zombie chupacabra shepherd is absolutely convincing and utterly moving.鈥

鈥擟raig Clevenger, author of 鈥楾he Contortionist鈥檚 Handbook and Dermaphoria鈥

鈥溾橧t Came From Del Rio鈥 is not just for fans of horror or noir. Like great realist fiction, it touches a place in us all where we ask ourselves, 鈥楬ow far would you go? What would you do if you were wronged? Or your family鈥攜our father, your wife or your daughter.鈥 Vengeance. Jones serves it up cold in this captivating story of a man who becomes less of a man and more of a legend.鈥

鈥擱ichard Thomas, author of 鈥楾ranssubstantiate鈥

鈥淭hat there is a rabbit-headed zombie in It Came From Del Rio is given away on the cover. How this happened is told in a pitch-perfect noir tale of love and revenge.鈥

鈥擣red Cleaver, Denver Post Review