Pour One for the Devil

Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. (enrolled Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is the author of award-winning mosaic novels Sacred Smokes and Sacred City and the editor of The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. He is the co-editor (with Shane Hawk) of the Vintage/Penguin Random House bestseller Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. His work has appeared in Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Chicago Review, The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Apex Magazine, Red Earth Review, Indian Country Today, Great Plains Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is an active HWA member. Find him online across platforms: @TVAyyyy

“Very cool.” —Stephen Graham Jones, NYT best-selling author of My Heart is a Chainsaw and The Only Good Indians “A cinematic swirl of bourbon, blood-soaked soil, and bad magic.” —Jeremy Robert Johnson, award-winning author of The Loop and Skullcrack City“Creepy, atmospheric, and darkly funny.” —Sonora Taylor, award-winning author of Little Paranoias: Stories and Seeing Things"Mixing the profane and sacred with a sledgehammer finish."—Kimberly Davis Basso, author of Next Door