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
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Some new testimonial graphics for my books because I put my heart + soul into them, readers enjoy 'em + they're out with small presses so I need to bang the gong twice as loud
Anti-fascist, genre-agnostic stories about regular folks + myths, demons, freaks, fools + lovers
Links at johnchrostek.com
Anti-fascist, genre-agnostic stories about regular folks + myths, demons, freaks, fools + lovers
Links at johnchrostek.com
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Late night bookmail from @eveninghouse.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Late night bookmail from @eveninghouse.bsky.social
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ELECTROCHEMISTRY - The funk soul brother at the back of his head has gone dark. Forever.
January 18, 2026 at 4:43 AM
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - The funk soul brother at the back of his head has gone dark. Forever.
Fuck that terrible game, let’s talk video games instead
January 18, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Fuck that terrible game, let’s talk video games instead
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47 yards on two pass interference calls, that’s what the people wanna see.
Gotta love winning a game with zero clutch catches in OT other than your DB.
January 18, 2026 at 1:13 AM
47 yards on two pass interference calls, that’s what the people wanna see.
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sometimes you get author copies of your book and think: that was a thing that lived inside me and now it’s in the world and if that isn’t the coolest thing. work is love made visible etc etc
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
sometimes you get author copies of your book and think: that was a thing that lived inside me and now it’s in the world and if that isn’t the coolest thing. work is love made visible etc etc
Depressing thinking about how the people of Greenland have a large movement that doesn't want to be a colony of Denmark anymore, and that is being aggressively set back by the imperialist terrorism of Trump
January 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Depressing thinking about how the people of Greenland have a large movement that doesn't want to be a colony of Denmark anymore, and that is being aggressively set back by the imperialist terrorism of Trump
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Feast of the Pale Leviathan is really good. Highly recommended.
The book tries to walk a tightrope, putting together historic shipwrecks, Boschian demons in dark woods, liminal magic and flesh orbs as well as mundane life like river raft parks, breakfast bars, corporate orientations, the Jersey turnpike, family drama into one strange ride
Hope you check it out!
Hope you check it out!
January 16, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Feast of the Pale Leviathan is really good. Highly recommended.
Do you guys remember Shutter Island
January 16, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Do you guys remember Shutter Island
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Riding the lightning of economic and sociopolitcal anxiety to say "I got books to read if you've got the appetite"
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
January 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Riding the lightning of economic and sociopolitcal anxiety to say "I got books to read if you've got the appetite"
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
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Riding the lightning of economic and sociopolitcal anxiety to say "I got books to read if you've got the appetite"
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
January 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Riding the lightning of economic and sociopolitcal anxiety to say "I got books to read if you've got the appetite"
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
For example, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is a weird dark fantasy inside a kaiju titan's guts where devoured souls exist outside time, until things get culty & interdimensional
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Kill Radio has 69 reviews which is kinda funny (and so cool) to me. Here’s a link! A crystal radio opens a portal to hell. It’s got Romance, bad decisions, witchy shit, and is my love letter to John Constantine and Saga of the Swamp Thing.
Kill Radio — Malarkey
April 2023. Lauren Bolger finds the right frequency for horror with her absolutely frightening novel KILL RADIO. Turn on, tune in and get ready to be terrified. —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Gho...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Kill Radio has 69 reviews which is kinda funny (and so cool) to me. Here’s a link! A crystal radio opens a portal to hell. It’s got Romance, bad decisions, witchy shit, and is my love letter to John Constantine and Saga of the Swamp Thing.
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You might be having a hard day, but at least you're not a pathetic loser no one likes who agreed to ruin lives, murder strangers, and eat shit over and over again on frozen sidewalks, all in return for a paycheck you'll never be able to spend because you get booed out of any business you enter.
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
You might be having a hard day, but at least you're not a pathetic loser no one likes who agreed to ruin lives, murder strangers, and eat shit over and over again on frozen sidewalks, all in return for a paycheck you'll never be able to spend because you get booed out of any business you enter.
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Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up
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Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going
Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Minneapolis is headed towards something resembling a general strike, if you were wondering how the campaign to cow working people into quiescence is going
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Some studies from last year
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Some studies from last year
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Just a friendly reminder that today is the last day to recommend works for the Stoker Awards!
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The Bram Stoker Awards® – The Bram Stoker Awards
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January 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Just a friendly reminder that today is the last day to recommend works for the Stoker Awards!
bramstokerawards.horror.org/the-bram-sto...
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People in Minneapolis don't like it when secret police come into their city to kill and brutalize them, people in rural areas think it's great. Somehow, this is a problem that Minneapolis is supposed to make amends for.
As usual, the story here isn't about "divides" or cosmopolitan elites looking down on rural populations. It is about radicalization. This woman wants violent vengeance for things that did not happen.
January 15, 2026 at 5:18 PM
People in Minneapolis don't like it when secret police come into their city to kill and brutalize them, people in rural areas think it's great. Somehow, this is a problem that Minneapolis is supposed to make amends for.
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If you're a member of the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social, may I suggest you check out @megapolisomancy.bsky.social's "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" for the Short Nonfiction category (and a worth a read either way):
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
If you're a member of the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social, may I suggest you check out @megapolisomancy.bsky.social's "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" for the Short Nonfiction category (and a worth a read either way):
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It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com
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unspeakably honored to be included on the Brave New Weird Vol. 4 shortlist, alongside some seriously great writers!! thanks to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @cold-signal.com for giving That Red Hot Beat a home ❤️🖤
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...
January 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
unspeakably honored to be included on the Brave New Weird Vol. 4 shortlist, alongside some seriously great writers!! thanks to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and @cold-signal.com for giving That Red Hot Beat a home ❤️🖤
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/1/...
Incredible list!!! It’s so sick that Tenebrous does the work to celebrate the field like this. Congrats to all!!
🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
tinyurl.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Incredible list!!! It’s so sick that Tenebrous does the work to celebrate the field like this. Congrats to all!!
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general winter once again comes to the aid of the left
To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south—you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it.
Next week is what will break you.
Next week is what will break you.
We've lead charmed weather lives so far in January.
Temperatures are +5F to +10F across MN so far this month. 🌡️
We're about to be reminded what persistent cold and occasional snow feels like. ❄️
MSP could bottom out -10 to -20 next Tue.
#mnwx
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Temperatures are +5F to +10F across MN so far this month. 🌡️
We're about to be reminded what persistent cold and occasional snow feels like. ❄️
MSP could bottom out -10 to -20 next Tue.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 14, 2026 at 12:20 AM
general winter once again comes to the aid of the left
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oh shitttt!!!
We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS.
Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations, Thomas!
January 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM
oh shitttt!!!
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*