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Writer: johnchrostek.com EIC @cold-signal.com Bookseller @eveninghouse.bsky.social BOXCUTTERS, short stories: May 2025 https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, novel: Aug 2025 https://shorturl.at/WeXfh Buffalo, NY
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they're running with the dolls line because if they talked about adult men going without their toys instead of young girls they might get got

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

They say the pen is mightier than the sword but in actuality the pet is just a very small sword you dip in ink instead of blood

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

No matter how hostile of an environment these monsters try to make literature, I will hang on, for my own books and the work of others I respect and admire. From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee, motherfuckers

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Do yourself, and John, and Malarkey, but mostly yourself a favor and order a copy of Boxcutters. John will sign it!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Been doing a lot of Boxcutters posting (and for good reason, it's all up in my business right now) but just a friendly reminder that my first novel, Feast of the Pale Leviathan, is coming out this year as well, in August with Deep Overstock Books!

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Spent a good chunk of yesterday signing boxes of copies of Boxcutters (not signing the boxes, signing the boxes’ worth of copies) and getting them ready to mail out. It was extremely touching and also a little scary

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The army is about to launch a new operation. I haven’t even recovered from the last displacement just two weeks ago. But this time… we are starving it’s been over two months. We are exhausted, drained, broken, and without hope. I need your donations to survive this… to make it through.

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I cannot understand the interior lives of the architects of this mass suffering, no matter how much I try. I don't understand how someone inoculates themselves to empathy, shame and regret to be able to commit these levels of violence and then continues on living

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i am not part of the write every day school of thinking, but i am part of the read every day school. if you can fit 1-2 short stories a day (even just fifteen minutes some days), that's hundreds in a year. i will eat my hat if that doesn't change your writing instincts. will eat my goddamn hat.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I love this one. A phenomenal primer for the dark magic of weird fiction against the grim currents of the day

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I’m so sick of this unrelenting shit from this stupid fucking asshole and his army of fascist goons. He’s just literally going after every little thing that isn’t criminal or evil in this country and he’s doing it in the fucking stupidest way possible. What even is this shit? What is the point?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I hate him so much that my hatred has eaten my heart and is now copulating with the carcasses of dead dictators.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

submitted 6 days ago • 143 comments

while you're prepping your Hellarkey V. 4 submission, you should ALSO be aware that @malarkeybooks.bsky.social has ANOTHER rad as hell opportunity to get some stuff out there - MEALARKEY, a collection of fiction and food that sounds rad as hell malarkeybooks.com/mealarkey/20...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a strange shape, and there’s still a lot more shelving and stock to get before it feels full but we’re working on it! It’s so exciting having a door and window! Any online purchase at eveninghousebooks.com helps us with this big transition! Thanks either way, friends ❤️🖤

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We made a class war reading list for you.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Story out today on the Ninth Letter site!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

this program could have saved my baby brother's life. the republican party is an enemy of humanity

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Open Letter to Worldcon: Concerns about LLM usage in Panelist Vetting by Jake Casella Brookins, ARB editor and host of A Meal of Thorns ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/01/l...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

When I see people say things like "the average person only has 3 friends," I wonder how strictly people are defining friendship. If your definition is "person who will rearrange their entire life for me at a moment's notice," then sure I guess. But I define friends as people I like who like me.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

YEAHHHHHH

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Pink on pink on pink for @alinaetc.bsky.social’s pub day! 🩷🩷🩷

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Walpurgisnacht again, and as is traditional, the submission window for Hellarkey V.4 yawns wide as a grave! Myself, @ossuary.bsky.social, and @renbolger.bsky.social are your editors, and the printing presses of @malarkeybooks.bsky.social are ready! Here's the details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Gonna need to work on being emotionally ready for things like this (thank you so much, Teresa!!!)

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