John Chrostek
@johnchrostek.com
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, novel: https://shorturl.at/7A4bA
BOXCUTTERS, short stories: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters
(IBR's "TOP BOOKS WE READ IN 2025")
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
BOXCUTTERS, short stories: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters
(IBR's "TOP BOOKS WE READ IN 2025")
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Pinned
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 Owen finds inside is a community of fellow su...
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If you want to read a book by a pretentious NY stoner about a Hobbesian Leviathan attacking the East Coast and devouring people who have to escape the Flesh Zone and destroy New Atlantis, you can get a copy here for any price and I'll donate any proceeds I make for the next month to mutual aid
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Oh, what's this? No big deal, just the cover reveal for my next book, QUAINT FOLK -- a story about an obnoxious American family who visits an incredibly quaint British island where people follow the old ways. 😎🖤
February 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Oh, what's this? No big deal, just the cover reveal for my next book, QUAINT FOLK -- a story about an obnoxious American family who visits an incredibly quaint British island where people follow the old ways. 😎🖤
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NEW REVIEW IN FOR MY BOOK:
“It’s so hard to believe that this is a debut novel.”
Preorder below 🙂
“It’s so hard to believe that this is a debut novel.”
Preorder below 🙂
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
NEW REVIEW IN FOR MY BOOK:
“It’s so hard to believe that this is a debut novel.”
Preorder below 🙂
“It’s so hard to believe that this is a debut novel.”
Preorder below 🙂
GENERAL CALL: If you have a book release later this year that's speculative, funky or strange and you're looking for venues in the Northeast for events, DM me + let's talk about whether @eveninghouse.bsky.social in downtown Buffalo would be a good fit for you 🍻
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Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
GENERAL CALL: If you have a book release later this year that's speculative, funky or strange and you're looking for venues in the Northeast for events, DM me + let's talk about whether @eveninghouse.bsky.social in downtown Buffalo would be a good fit for you 🍻
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More books with smaller dimensions for lower costs and more profit to authors and we’re not joking around
hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
More books with smaller dimensions for lower costs and more profit to authors and we’re not joking around
working on some stickers for the shop
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
working on some stickers for the shop
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I’d just like to give a shoutout to this incredible guide for writers with an upcoming book from @ljabouttown.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
So You've Got a Book Coming Out on an Indie Press — Malarkey
LJ Pemberton And you’re excited, and can’t believe it, but also now you need people to actually buy and read your book! If you’re lucky, you’ve got five to ten people who are already very excit...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I’d just like to give a shoutout to this incredible guide for writers with an upcoming book from @ljabouttown.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
malarkeybooks.com/publishing/s...
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I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
this one has helped inspire some fun talks with fellow writers about their own relationship with genre, which has been the highlight of an otherwise frustrating day
a somewhat lengthy newsletter, first of the year, about the cold and about genre
Thawing Out Of the Ice, or, Some Thoughts on Genre
Bearing winter's chill, thinking about the future and exploring the boundaries and limitations of genre.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:14 PM
this one has helped inspire some fun talks with fellow writers about their own relationship with genre, which has been the highlight of an otherwise frustrating day
growing up with a construction worker father who had a disabling stroke, I remember his Puerto Rican coworkers who cared about him + checked in, I remember racist white neighbors who barely gave a fuck, and how much the system turns on the economically unproductive. that's always been America to me
February 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
growing up with a construction worker father who had a disabling stroke, I remember his Puerto Rican coworkers who cared about him + checked in, I remember racist white neighbors who barely gave a fuck, and how much the system turns on the economically unproductive. that's always been America to me
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
so what this guy is suggesting is that the bad bunny show may have actually indecently exposed viewers to words, or "thought nipples", but that investigation is ongoing as to whether such thought nipples were in fact exposed. they're just not sure yet, but either way it's bad
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
House GOP launches Bad Bunny probe: 'Worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction'
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction."During a Tuesday interview on Real America's Voice, Alford told the hosts that he and other House Repu...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
so what this guy is suggesting is that the bad bunny show may have actually indecently exposed viewers to words, or "thought nipples", but that investigation is ongoing as to whether such thought nipples were in fact exposed. they're just not sure yet, but either way it's bad
a somewhat lengthy newsletter, first of the year, about the cold and about genre
Thawing Out Of the Ice, or, Some Thoughts on Genre
Bearing winter's chill, thinking about the future and exploring the boundaries and limitations of genre.
buttondown.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
a somewhat lengthy newsletter, first of the year, about the cold and about genre
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I think Samir's built up quite a rep for the weird and the transgressive. And Cursed Morsels has excellent taste.
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February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I think Samir's built up quite a rep for the weird and the transgressive. And Cursed Morsels has excellent taste.
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Here’s some Larisa Brechun art to make your Monday a little better.
February 9, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Here’s some Larisa Brechun art to make your Monday a little better.
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February 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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alternative: drink absolutely as much caffeine as possible
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February 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
alternative: drink absolutely as much caffeine as possible
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burialmagazine.neocities.org/nolongerther...
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Like short stories but are tired of dojng the same inane discourse about stories from 70 years ago?read my newsletter and discourse about stuff from @strangehorizons.bsky.social @kayv.bsky.social @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org and crucially, the 2nd Red Krayola album buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
SHORT STORY REX Jan 2026
SHORT STORY REX Jan 2026 [Before we begin: it does feel hopelessly trivial to be nattering on about short fiction just now, so let my first recommendation...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Like short stories but are tired of dojng the same inane discourse about stories from 70 years ago?read my newsletter and discourse about stuff from @strangehorizons.bsky.social @kayv.bsky.social @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org and crucially, the 2nd Red Krayola album buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
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So what is weird fiction, anyway? It's when you read weird fiction.
February 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
So what is weird fiction, anyway? It's when you read weird fiction.
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there is something like weird fiction, a sister to it, that sits somewhere in the intersections of magical realism, weird fic, absurdism, surrealism and horror, and it is very alive right now despite (or perhaps because of) its namelessness
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
there is something like weird fiction, a sister to it, that sits somewhere in the intersections of magical realism, weird fic, absurdism, surrealism and horror, and it is very alive right now despite (or perhaps because of) its namelessness
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Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
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February 9, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
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Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
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They're trying to encourage disease to spread throughout the camps and starve people what the fuck does that sound like to you. Seriously if you are still on the incremental bullshit you're supporting more of this. It's evil to do this shit but it's also evil to ignore it
The government says the people being deported are violent criminals, and they treat them inhumanely. But mostly they are subjecting ordinary people to extraordinary punishments.
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
They're trying to encourage disease to spread throughout the camps and starve people what the fuck does that sound like to you. Seriously if you are still on the incremental bullshit you're supporting more of this. It's evil to do this shit but it's also evil to ignore it
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man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
<smiling, giving a best man speech> Webster’s dictionary defines love as “1 of 2, verb, lev, definition of love, 1. As in to adore, to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for. “A husband who loves his wife more than anything.” Synonyms and similar words: adore, cherish, worship, fall for, carry th
February 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
<smiling, giving a best man speech> Webster’s dictionary defines love as “1 of 2, verb, lev, definition of love, 1. As in to adore, to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for. “A husband who loves his wife more than anything.” Synonyms and similar words: adore, cherish, worship, fall for, carry th