John Chrostek
@johnchrostek.com
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
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Got two strange flash fictions coming out in the next few weeks: a story about ice fishing, pub’ing w/Buffalo pals at @varietypack.bsky.social in the new Halloween issue & then a story about Madeline and rabbits with the fine folk at @capecodreview.bsky.social later on this November 🫡
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I was honored to contribute a cover illustration for this collection of Perry's stories. I've been lucky enough to be friends with Perry for years, and to get to read his work early.
A collection of his work is a long time coming, and this is a great one.
A collection of his work is a long time coming, and this is a great one.
ergot. regular Perry Ruhland has a new, debut, collection out entitled 'Invisible Graves' with Organ Fail: www.organ.fail/product/invi...
13 Stories, including 4 stories which were first published in ergot.
13 Stories, including 4 stories which were first published in ergot.
Invisible Graves:Perry Ruhland - Perry Ruhland
Thirteen gothic tales about the direct encounter with death, in its physical, psychical, cultural, and ontological dimensions.
www.organ.fail
November 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I was honored to contribute a cover illustration for this collection of Perry's stories. I've been lucky enough to be friends with Perry for years, and to get to read his work early.
A collection of his work is a long time coming, and this is a great one.
A collection of his work is a long time coming, and this is a great one.
Watched SHIN GODZILLA (2016) last night and absolutely loved it. A fascinating command room drama with plenty of bite paired with an ever-changing. fundamentally unknowable tragic nightmare Godzilla at its center. The moment it developed its atomic breath was beautiful. Psyched to see MINUS ONE soon
November 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Watched SHIN GODZILLA (2016) last night and absolutely loved it. A fascinating command room drama with plenty of bite paired with an ever-changing. fundamentally unknowable tragic nightmare Godzilla at its center. The moment it developed its atomic breath was beautiful. Psyched to see MINUS ONE soon
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“'[UB's poetics program] has changed American literature & it should be allowed to continue to do that work,' [alum Juliana] Spahr wrote. 'Someday, someone will write a laudatory history, & if it ends now, that history will have to say who let it end & why.'" investigativepost.org/2026/10/30/r...
Renowned University at Buffalo poetry program in limbo
The UB Poetics program has produced a Pulitzer winner & two Guggenheim fellows and is in limbo after losing two positions & program funding.
investigativepost.org
October 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
“'[UB's poetics program] has changed American literature & it should be allowed to continue to do that work,' [alum Juliana] Spahr wrote. 'Someday, someone will write a laudatory history, & if it ends now, that history will have to say who let it end & why.'" investigativepost.org/2026/10/30/r...
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Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Borges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers.
October 31, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Parents... please check your children's candy tonight. I just went through Salomé Athena's haul and I found a copy of the Jorge Luis Borges short story collection "The Garden of Forking Paths". This metatextual exploration may be too advanced for young readers.
Happy Halloween!!
Got a new flash fiction story in the cosmic horror issue of local pals lit mag @varietypack.bsky.social!
It’s called UNDER THE LAKE, and it’s a short Lake Eerie thing about a very sad man going ice fishing in hopes of spotting a wandering fortress
varietypack.net/issue-xv/
Got a new flash fiction story in the cosmic horror issue of local pals lit mag @varietypack.bsky.social!
It’s called UNDER THE LAKE, and it’s a short Lake Eerie thing about a very sad man going ice fishing in hopes of spotting a wandering fortress
varietypack.net/issue-xv/
October 31, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Happy Halloween!!
Got a new flash fiction story in the cosmic horror issue of local pals lit mag @varietypack.bsky.social!
It’s called UNDER THE LAKE, and it’s a short Lake Eerie thing about a very sad man going ice fishing in hopes of spotting a wandering fortress
varietypack.net/issue-xv/
Got a new flash fiction story in the cosmic horror issue of local pals lit mag @varietypack.bsky.social!
It’s called UNDER THE LAKE, and it’s a short Lake Eerie thing about a very sad man going ice fishing in hopes of spotting a wandering fortress
varietypack.net/issue-xv/
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We have three copies left of @johnchrostek.com’s collection, Boxcutters. These are the first edition with the French flap. Claim one for yourself!
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
Boxcutters, stories by John Chrostek — Malarkey
One Amazon delivery stolen from a neighbor’s porch leads to plenty more. To keep the show going, a balding sitcom actress tries out a new wig and discovers a hunger for life. Jesus Christ claims the o...
malarkeybooks.com
October 31, 2026 at 8:11 PM
We have three copies left of @johnchrostek.com’s collection, Boxcutters. These are the first edition with the French flap. Claim one for yourself!
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcut...
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For anybody looking for a Halloween weekend read, you can get an ebook of my debut novel FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN for $4.99 (or pay whatever you want) on Gumroad.
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN (a novel)
A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what...
chrostek.gumroad.com
October 30, 2026 at 9:51 PM
For anybody looking for a Halloween weekend read, you can get an ebook of my debut novel FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN for $4.99 (or pay whatever you want) on Gumroad.
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
For anybody looking for a Halloween weekend read, you can get an ebook of my debut novel FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN for $4.99 (or pay whatever you want) on Gumroad.
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN (a novel)
A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what...
chrostek.gumroad.com
October 30, 2026 at 9:51 PM
For anybody looking for a Halloween weekend read, you can get an ebook of my debut novel FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN for $4.99 (or pay whatever you want) on Gumroad.
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
Think Gulliver's Travels + Whalefall + Attack on Titan with a hallucinogenic splash
chrostek.gumroad.com/l/feastofthe...
When I see Gen Z making "millennial optimism" parody videos, I feel nothing. It's like being a drop of water in the ocean hearing a sailor call the sea a harsh mistress. I'm not the ocean, baby, I'm just in it. I'm on my way to becoming sea foam. I'm one summer's day away from being a whiff of cloud
October 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
When I see Gen Z making "millennial optimism" parody videos, I feel nothing. It's like being a drop of water in the ocean hearing a sailor call the sea a harsh mistress. I'm not the ocean, baby, I'm just in it. I'm on my way to becoming sea foam. I'm one summer's day away from being a whiff of cloud
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do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all
If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.
October 30, 2026 at 5:55 AM
do not funnel your grief over this death into trek and x-men merch, paramount & disney dont need your money. go to plays, give to charities, vote for candidates who will fund public art, and you will make it possible for people like patrick stewart to exist and keep existing. a rising tide lifts all
Happy to finally join the choir on this and say “holy fucking shit” to You Can See Everything
October 30, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Happy to finally join the choir on this and say “holy fucking shit” to You Can See Everything
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It shouldn't come as a shock when a man dies at 86, but I'm floored. I somehow never imagined that I would live in a world without Captain Picard in it. Thank you for everything, Sir Patrick. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86
He’s forever known for playing Jean-Luc Picard and Charles Xavier, whom he “admired for their morality, for their kindness, for their sensitivity, for their compassion.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
It shouldn't come as a shock when a man dies at 86, but I'm floored. I somehow never imagined that I would live in a world without Captain Picard in it. Thank you for everything, Sir Patrick. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Pedrò Paramo rips! Some other great books borne of the “Latin America’s Haunted” Gothic:
EYE OF GOLIATH by Diego Muzzio @pushkinpress.com
FURY by Clyo Mendoza
@sevenstories.bsky.social
ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN by Mónica Ojeda
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
EYE OF GOLIATH by Diego Muzzio @pushkinpress.com
FURY by Clyo Mendoza
@sevenstories.bsky.social
ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN by Mónica Ojeda
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
"This, dear reader, is my thesis for why Latin America is the Gothic setting par excellence: it’s haunted. It remains haunted."
Author @isabelcanas.bsky.social recommends 5 Latin American Gothics for your TBR 📖
Author @isabelcanas.bsky.social recommends 5 Latin American Gothics for your TBR 📖
Why Latin America Is the Perfect Gothic Setting - Reactor
iI’s haunted. It remains haunted. Case closed.
reactormag.com
October 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Pedrò Paramo rips! Some other great books borne of the “Latin America’s Haunted” Gothic:
EYE OF GOLIATH by Diego Muzzio @pushkinpress.com
FURY by Clyo Mendoza
@sevenstories.bsky.social
ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN by Mónica Ojeda
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
EYE OF GOLIATH by Diego Muzzio @pushkinpress.com
FURY by Clyo Mendoza
@sevenstories.bsky.social
ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN by Mónica Ojeda
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
An excellent article on an excellent book! Love the respect put on Swift’s rage & the targeting of Francis Bacon. I wrote FEAST to try to engage with Bacon’s New Atlantis & Hobbes’ Leviathan from a 2020’s weird fiction + Swiftian lens. It feels like the Enlightenment’s corpse has begun rotting
At 300 years old, Gulliver’s Travels still has so much to teach us.
The Limits of Rationality: On Gulliver’s Travels at 300
On every birthday, Jonathan Swift would take off his starched, powdered wig with its cascade of white curls, gingerly place it down by the candle-light illuminated stained-glass window of the Deane…
bit.ly
October 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM
An excellent article on an excellent book! Love the respect put on Swift’s rage & the targeting of Francis Bacon. I wrote FEAST to try to engage with Bacon’s New Atlantis & Hobbes’ Leviathan from a 2020’s weird fiction + Swiftian lens. It feels like the Enlightenment’s corpse has begun rotting
We’ve got our novel book club at the shop tonight and I hope this isn’t a spoiler to anyone curious, but my personal opinion is that Brian Evenson’s THE OPEN CURTAIN is really, really good
October 28, 2026 at 2:12 PM
We’ve got our novel book club at the shop tonight and I hope this isn’t a spoiler to anyone curious, but my personal opinion is that Brian Evenson’s THE OPEN CURTAIN is really, really good
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Hey, everybody - two things:
1. My novella, "Iron Kelwas, the Raven Knights and Their Little Sister" has a release date in both ebook and print (April 23, 2027; ebook pre-order link below)
bookshop.org/p/books/iron...
1. My novella, "Iron Kelwas, the Raven Knights and Their Little Sister" has a release date in both ebook and print (April 23, 2027; ebook pre-order link below)
bookshop.org/p/books/iron...
Iron Kelwas, the Raven Knights and Their Little Sister
Iron Kelwas, The Raven Knights, and Their Little Sister is a sword and sorcery dark fantasy epic that melds the storytelling voice of The Princess Bride with the fairy tale whimsy of The West Passage....
bookshop.org
October 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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It's gonna turn out this is being funded by tech billionaires to dramatize the need for law enforcement to leverage the omnipresent power of vengeful birds on every street lamp and tree branch in a small town. The spec script's working title? FLOCK
HBO is officially developing ‘THE BIRDS’, a new series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film.
Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center.
(Source: Deadline)
Starring Sarah Snook, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the film set in Alaska with a murder mystery at the center.
(Source: Deadline)
October 27, 2026 at 10:41 PM
It's gonna turn out this is being funded by tech billionaires to dramatize the need for law enforcement to leverage the omnipresent power of vengeful birds on every street lamp and tree branch in a small town. The spec script's working title? FLOCK
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Posting some of our TBR piles! All of these books are available to purchase from our shop. If this post puts a cool book on your radar, hell yeah.
eveninghousebooks.com
eveninghousebooks.com
October 27, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Posting some of our TBR piles! All of these books are available to purchase from our shop. If this post puts a cool book on your radar, hell yeah.
eveninghousebooks.com
eveninghousebooks.com
Got two strange flash fictions coming out in the next few weeks: a story about ice fishing, pub’ing w/Buffalo pals at @varietypack.bsky.social in the new Halloween issue & then a story about Madeline and rabbits with the fine folk at @capecodreview.bsky.social later on this November 🫡
October 27, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Got two strange flash fictions coming out in the next few weeks: a story about ice fishing, pub’ing w/Buffalo pals at @varietypack.bsky.social in the new Halloween issue & then a story about Madeline and rabbits with the fine folk at @capecodreview.bsky.social later on this November 🫡
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It's Halloween week! It's also the anniversary month of my two @malarkeybooks.bsky.social titles, which both happen to be firmly in the Horror genre, among other subgenres. If you like Romance in your Horror, Hell portals, demons, cryptids... give one or both of these a shot! Order links below ⬇️
October 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
It's Halloween week! It's also the anniversary month of my two @malarkeybooks.bsky.social titles, which both happen to be firmly in the Horror genre, among other subgenres. If you like Romance in your Horror, Hell portals, demons, cryptids... give one or both of these a shot! Order links below ⬇️
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this is some of the most repulsive, abhorrent racism I've seen from a public official in my lifetime, and I say this as 1) a guy who was born 59 years ago and has been around to see some shit, and 2) an American ffs. rfk in any position of influence to the lasting shame of us all
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
October 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM
this is some of the most repulsive, abhorrent racism I've seen from a public official in my lifetime, and I say this as 1) a guy who was born 59 years ago and has been around to see some shit, and 2) an American ffs. rfk in any position of influence to the lasting shame of us all
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Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.
October 26, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
October 25, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
ICYMI: the cover reveal for @patricknevins.bsky.social ‘s new novel, PRETTY JOEY ROSS. Cover by yours truly!
Malarkey books are worth their weight in gold. Preorder this bad boy and/or grab the book club for a year of great literature 🫡
Malarkey books are worth their weight in gold. Preorder this bad boy and/or grab the book club for a year of great literature 🫡
We have some incredible books in the pipeline. One that I’m especially excited about is Pretty Joey Ross by @patricknevins.bsky.social. Have a look at the cover by @johnchrostek.com and preorder a signed copy while you’re at it!
malarkeybooks.com/store/pretty...
malarkeybooks.com/store/pretty...
October 25, 2026 at 5:14 PM
ICYMI: the cover reveal for @patricknevins.bsky.social ‘s new novel, PRETTY JOEY ROSS. Cover by yours truly!
Malarkey books are worth their weight in gold. Preorder this bad boy and/or grab the book club for a year of great literature 🫡
Malarkey books are worth their weight in gold. Preorder this bad boy and/or grab the book club for a year of great literature 🫡