John Chrostek
@johnchrostek.com
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Pinned
Psyched to announce our visiting authors for October:
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
Beyond hype about these events, come out!!!
Reposted by John Chrostek
And now I get to say that Muñeca won the Octavia E. Butler award! And I got to be there in person:) This is the first time I've won anything for my writing, and I'm so happy.
So this is still a true thing that I get to say: Muñeca is a finalist for the Octavia E. Butler award!
September 16, 2026 at 1:37 PM
And now I get to say that Muñeca won the Octavia E. Butler award! And I got to be there in person:) This is the first time I've won anything for my writing, and I'm so happy.
Fun update!!!
Reading with Adam Voith for the October 2nd event is gonna be myself & fellow Malarkey writer & general superstar @ljabouttown.bsky.social
Reading with Adam Voith for the October 2nd event is gonna be myself & fellow Malarkey writer & general superstar @ljabouttown.bsky.social
Psyched to announce our visiting authors for October:
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
September 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Fun update!!!
Reading with Adam Voith for the October 2nd event is gonna be myself & fellow Malarkey writer & general superstar @ljabouttown.bsky.social
Reading with Adam Voith for the October 2nd event is gonna be myself & fellow Malarkey writer & general superstar @ljabouttown.bsky.social
Reposted by John Chrostek
Flash Fiction: Friar’s Table by Alex Rost
It's the son's birthday and they are headed to a steak restaurant and the dad is talking about steaks.
It's the son's birthday and they are headed to a steak restaurant and the dad is talking about steaks.
Flash Fiction: Friar’s Table by Alex Rost
It's the son's birthday and they are headed to a steak restaurant and the dad is talking about steaks.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Flash Fiction: Friar’s Table by Alex Rost
It's the son's birthday and they are headed to a steak restaurant and the dad is talking about steaks.
It's the son's birthday and they are headed to a steak restaurant and the dad is talking about steaks.
I feel like I have to say this more frequently than I do, but Amanda is the primary architect of the store. I’m happily second fiddle. We are life partners + we both work very hard at it, but if you always default to treating me as the primary/solitary authority, we both notice + it is a shitty look
September 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I feel like I have to say this more frequently than I do, but Amanda is the primary architect of the store. I’m happily second fiddle. We are life partners + we both work very hard at it, but if you always default to treating me as the primary/solitary authority, we both notice + it is a shitty look
Reposted by John Chrostek
Beyond hype about these events, come out!!!
Psyched to announce our visiting authors for October:
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
September 16, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Beyond hype about these events, come out!!!
Reposted by John Chrostek
The very first entry in my commonplace book.
September 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
The very first entry in my commonplace book.
Beyond hype about these events, come out!!!
Psyched to announce our visiting authors for October:
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
@adamvoith.bsky.social
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
@carrielaben.com
If you’re around Buffalo/WNY, these are all incredible writers and you should come out to see them!
September 16, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Beyond hype about these events, come out!!!
Reposted by John Chrostek
This is crushing news. Dillard is so incredibly important to me, as both a person and a writer. I’m so insanely grateful to her for her body of work.
Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
This is crushing news. Dillard is so incredibly important to me, as both a person and a writer. I’m so insanely grateful to her for her body of work.
Reposted by John Chrostek
For those in the NE Penn. or Western NY state area, I will be doing an event at @eveninghouse.bsky.social on Oct. 17 at 4pm for THE SHIP OF DEATH. Come out, say hi, buy a book! Can't wait to meet @johnchrostek.com in person and dig Buffalo.
September 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
For those in the NE Penn. or Western NY state area, I will be doing an event at @eveninghouse.bsky.social on Oct. 17 at 4pm for THE SHIP OF DEATH. Come out, say hi, buy a book! Can't wait to meet @johnchrostek.com in person and dig Buffalo.
Had our first Strange Short Story Sunday bookclub today, discussing Liliana Colanzi's excellent collection YOU GLOW IN THE DARK, then got sushi for lunch and came home and watched IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
It was a nice, fun day. Still working on my blood pressure after last week, but getting there
It was a nice, fun day. Still working on my blood pressure after last week, but getting there
September 14, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Had our first Strange Short Story Sunday bookclub today, discussing Liliana Colanzi's excellent collection YOU GLOW IN THE DARK, then got sushi for lunch and came home and watched IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
It was a nice, fun day. Still working on my blood pressure after last week, but getting there
It was a nice, fun day. Still working on my blood pressure after last week, but getting there
Reposted by John Chrostek
also releasing work as a writer in 2026
September 12, 2026 at 3:28 PM
also releasing work as a writer in 2026
Will always cherish stories that suggest more than they dramatize. A dream is a figment of thought that purifies the mind and abides no laws and so too is a story
September 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Will always cherish stories that suggest more than they dramatize. A dream is a figment of thought that purifies the mind and abides no laws and so too is a story
I'm at Endorphin Port level today
September 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I'm at Endorphin Port level today
Reposted by John Chrostek
If you’ve been interested in ordering books from us to support the shop but have struggled to use the website, it is currently running smoothly in a defensive mode protecting it from spam traffic overloading the servers
Eveninghousebooks.com
We’d love to connect you with great books
Eveninghousebooks.com
We’d love to connect you with great books
Eveninghousebooks.com
September 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
If you’ve been interested in ordering books from us to support the shop but have struggled to use the website, it is currently running smoothly in a defensive mode protecting it from spam traffic overloading the servers
Eveninghousebooks.com
We’d love to connect you with great books
Eveninghousebooks.com
We’d love to connect you with great books
We’ve been having serious issues with our website, especially in the last few days after the robbery. People wanting to support us being gated out w/ an unusable site.
So we went to tech support & they are saying we seem to be getting targeted by unusual traffic slamming the servers???
So we went to tech support & they are saying we seem to be getting targeted by unusual traffic slamming the servers???
September 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
We’ve been having serious issues with our website, especially in the last few days after the robbery. People wanting to support us being gated out w/ an unusable site.
So we went to tech support & they are saying we seem to be getting targeted by unusual traffic slamming the servers???
So we went to tech support & they are saying we seem to be getting targeted by unusual traffic slamming the servers???
increasingly understand the wolf mother from Princess Mononoke who hung on to life as a head in order to get one really solid final bite in
September 10, 2026 at 9:55 PM
increasingly understand the wolf mother from Princess Mononoke who hung on to life as a head in order to get one really solid final bite in
Learning how to thread the line today between my core nature of "it is what it is" and "yes, my bookstore getting robbed did suck, thank you for supporting us"
we call this painful but necessary growth
we call this painful but necessary growth
September 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Learning how to thread the line today between my core nature of "it is what it is" and "yes, my bookstore getting robbed did suck, thank you for supporting us"
we call this painful but necessary growth
we call this painful but necessary growth
Reposted by John Chrostek
A reminder that a few brilliant friends & I did a completely free Ligotti tribute anthology. Download free to read my story "Jar Of Arms" and other fine scribblings.
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
Get your FREE copy of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
“The ruined factory stood three stories high in an otherwise featureless landscape…”
With these words, Thomas Ligotti begins one of the most influential short stories in the canon of horror and weird ...
dl.bookfunnel.com
September 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
A reminder that a few brilliant friends & I did a completely free Ligotti tribute anthology. Download free to read my story "Jar Of Arms" and other fine scribblings.
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
Guys I am afraid that indie literature is going to be the end of the world
September 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Guys I am afraid that indie literature is going to be the end of the world
Reposted by John Chrostek
It's my birthday and I'd love for you to gift yourself (or a friend) a copy of my first book child, TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE.
Nathan Ballingrud calls it "creepy, touching, grotesque, and beautiful." Stephen Graham Jones says it's filled with magic tricks!
Nathan Ballingrud calls it "creepy, touching, grotesque, and beautiful." Stephen Graham Jones says it's filled with magic tricks!
September 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
It's my birthday and I'd love for you to gift yourself (or a friend) a copy of my first book child, TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE.
Nathan Ballingrud calls it "creepy, touching, grotesque, and beautiful." Stephen Graham Jones says it's filled with magic tricks!
Nathan Ballingrud calls it "creepy, touching, grotesque, and beautiful." Stephen Graham Jones says it's filled with magic tricks!
Reposted by John Chrostek
Yesterday I got my first blurb for my book, After Last Call, which is coming out from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social next April.
If you haven't already, you can preorder my book here: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
If you haven't already, you can preorder my book here: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
After Last Call by Will Musgrove — Malarkey
April 2027 Preorders will be signed by the author. After Last Call is about those who linger long past closing time, who bum around the bar’s parking lot to trade stories about a time when t...
malarkeybooks.com
September 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Yesterday I got my first blurb for my book, After Last Call, which is coming out from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social next April.
If you haven't already, you can preorder my book here: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
If you haven't already, you can preorder my book here: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
Here’s our post about this and also our hardcover sale
What a fun day 😮💨
What a fun day 😮💨
Good news and bad news!
Good news:
We’re running a hardcover sale bc we don’t like doing returns and we choose books v carefully so we know these are excellent
Bad news:
We had a break in this week with hundreds of dollars of items stolen and could use some help recouping the loss
Good news:
We’re running a hardcover sale bc we don’t like doing returns and we choose books v carefully so we know these are excellent
Bad news:
We had a break in this week with hundreds of dollars of items stolen and could use some help recouping the loss
September 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Here’s our post about this and also our hardcover sale
What a fun day 😮💨
What a fun day 😮💨
This is my favorite detail of this terrible fucking situation
September 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
This is my favorite detail of this terrible fucking situation
Fun new experience: someone stole hundreds of dollars of tarot cards and a customer’s special order from the shop (and left an open bottle of wine and broke stuff)
:))))))))
:))))))))
September 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Fun new experience: someone stole hundreds of dollars of tarot cards and a customer’s special order from the shop (and left an open bottle of wine and broke stuff)
:))))))))
:))))))))
Reposted by John Chrostek
i dont know how to get this through to the true believers but i simply do not want to ask a machine to do my work for me. i dont want it to communicate with other people for me. i dont want it to plan my vacations or make my agendas or anything because all of that IS my life
September 8, 2026 at 1:08 AM
i dont know how to get this through to the true believers but i simply do not want to ask a machine to do my work for me. i dont want it to communicate with other people for me. i dont want it to plan my vacations or make my agendas or anything because all of that IS my life