John Chrostek
@johnchrostek.com
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, novel: https://shorturl.at/WeXfh
BOXCUTTERS, short stories: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
BOXCUTTERS, short stories: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/boxcutters
Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
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okay my grumpy ass has finally settled on a 2025 year in review/eligibility graphic. I have been a furious little literary badger this year desperately clawing at art from all angles. Any interest/support/awards consideration for this work (mine + Cold Signal contributors) is so appreciated
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ICE really does need to be abolished.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
ICE really does need to be abolished.
Haven't read FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN?
Watch this video I made in about an hour to learn more about the book people are saying:
"deserves at least a few more sales"
and for some people:
"maybe even their favorite debut fantasy/horror novel of 2025"
(or at least vibes-wise their basic point!)
Watch this video I made in about an hour to learn more about the book people are saying:
"deserves at least a few more sales"
and for some people:
"maybe even their favorite debut fantasy/horror novel of 2025"
(or at least vibes-wise their basic point!)
made another poor man's book commercial, this one for FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
please enjoy (the commercial and the book)
please enjoy (the commercial and the book)
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Haven't read FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN?
Watch this video I made in about an hour to learn more about the book people are saying:
"deserves at least a few more sales"
and for some people:
"maybe even their favorite debut fantasy/horror novel of 2025"
(or at least vibes-wise their basic point!)
Watch this video I made in about an hour to learn more about the book people are saying:
"deserves at least a few more sales"
and for some people:
"maybe even their favorite debut fantasy/horror novel of 2025"
(or at least vibes-wise their basic point!)
It's time for Chicago Pope to drop his letterboxd account
I did not expect to be quoting Pope Leo XIV today but here we are...
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's time for Chicago Pope to drop his letterboxd account
under @esedia.bsky.social's administration we will champion a greater awareness of the plight of the oppressed to build progressive energy while ALSO getting weird as shit with it, because that's the spice, that's the sauce right there 🫡
29) @johnchrostek.com Social Realism in Literature Bringer-Backer
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
under @esedia.bsky.social's administration we will champion a greater awareness of the plight of the oppressed to build progressive energy while ALSO getting weird as shit with it, because that's the spice, that's the sauce right there 🫡
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I'm so happy to say that I've got a new story out in @asimovpress.bsky.social today!
press.asimov.com/articles/see...
It's a hard sci fi exploration of grief. An instructional? A cautionary tale? Something in between? Check it out:
press.asimov.com/articles/see...
It's a hard sci fi exploration of grief. An instructional? A cautionary tale? Something in between? Check it out:
How to See the Dead
A retinal implant designer must decide if translating mourning into light is progress or a refusal to let go.
press.asimov.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I'm so happy to say that I've got a new story out in @asimovpress.bsky.social today!
press.asimov.com/articles/see...
It's a hard sci fi exploration of grief. An instructional? A cautionary tale? Something in between? Check it out:
press.asimov.com/articles/see...
It's a hard sci fi exploration of grief. An instructional? A cautionary tale? Something in between? Check it out:
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What I’m Reading Now:
1. The Waste Lands - King
2. The Dragons of Babel - Swanwick
3. Uncertain Sons - @thomasha.bsky.social
4. The Feast of the Pale Leviathan - @johnchrostek.com
5. Absolute Superman - Jason Aaron
6. Wish I Were Here - M. John Harrison
1. The Waste Lands - King
2. The Dragons of Babel - Swanwick
3. Uncertain Sons - @thomasha.bsky.social
4. The Feast of the Pale Leviathan - @johnchrostek.com
5. Absolute Superman - Jason Aaron
6. Wish I Were Here - M. John Harrison
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What I’m Reading Now:
1. The Waste Lands - King
2. The Dragons of Babel - Swanwick
3. Uncertain Sons - @thomasha.bsky.social
4. The Feast of the Pale Leviathan - @johnchrostek.com
5. Absolute Superman - Jason Aaron
6. Wish I Were Here - M. John Harrison
1. The Waste Lands - King
2. The Dragons of Babel - Swanwick
3. Uncertain Sons - @thomasha.bsky.social
4. The Feast of the Pale Leviathan - @johnchrostek.com
5. Absolute Superman - Jason Aaron
6. Wish I Were Here - M. John Harrison
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I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
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Just finished and *loved* @johnchrostek.com's brilliant cosmic horror epic Feast of the Pale Leviathan, and I'm a little (a lot) jealous of his beautiful imagination. Wild ride from start to finish. Check it out: deepoverstock.com/product/feas...
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Just finished and *loved* @johnchrostek.com's brilliant cosmic horror epic Feast of the Pale Leviathan, and I'm a little (a lot) jealous of his beautiful imagination. Wild ride from start to finish. Check it out: deepoverstock.com/product/feas...
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I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!
R.L. Summerling's review of The Cellar Below the Cellar
5/5: The Cellar Below the Cellar is about Jane and her story of self discovery. Stranded during an unprecedented weather event, she finds herself with the unappealing prospect of living with her domin...
www.goodreads.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I was lucky enough to read an early copy of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's The Cellar Below the Cellar, which I absolutely loved! Link to my review here!
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"The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages..." —Don DeLillo, Zero K
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages..." —Don DeLillo, Zero K
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It is the 174th anniversary of the US publication of Moby Dick; or the Whale, by Herman Melville. Prepare for me to be insufferable
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It is the 174th anniversary of the US publication of Moby Dick; or the Whale, by Herman Melville. Prepare for me to be insufferable
don't get angry at people who dislike your work, get angry at God and vow that your next work with glimmer with the unholy light of true life
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
don't get angry at people who dislike your work, get angry at God and vow that your next work with glimmer with the unholy light of true life
Upping other people’s so I’ll also up my own! Two books, three stories of my own and a fantastic issue of Cold Signal
okay my grumpy ass has finally settled on a 2025 year in review/eligibility graphic. I have been a furious little literary badger this year desperately clawing at art from all angles. Any interest/support/awards consideration for this work (mine + Cold Signal contributors) is so appreciated
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Upping other people’s so I’ll also up my own! Two books, three stories of my own and a fantastic issue of Cold Signal
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I had 4 new short stories published this year but would be honored if you checked out these two for Nebula/Hugo/Locus consideration 🙏
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
Barbershops of the Floating City - Uncanny Magazine
Content note: child abuse You used to be in a band. Now you cut hair. The Institute hired you because you’re the daughter of the Floating City’s Founder’s fourth mistress, the one who always cooks u...
www.uncannymagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I had 4 new short stories published this year but would be honored if you checked out these two for Nebula/Hugo/Locus consideration 🙏
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
1) “Barbershops of the Floating City” (fantasy)
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/barb...
2) “Brainstem Disco, 2191” (sci-fi)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/
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Time for an Eligibility post!
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Time for an Eligibility post!
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
Thanks to everyone who spent a little time with my words this year. I always appreciate your kindness :)
If you want to nominate anything for anything…that’s wonderful.
If you don’t, that’s cool too :)
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it occurs to me that i have a book coming out in like six days and i have not yet told you what it's about
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
it occurs to me that i have a book coming out in like six days and i have not yet told you what it's about
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
my bad
if you like any of the following you might fuck with it 💕
✅ indie sleaze
✅ chaos duos
✅ sexual tension
✅ dual POV with frankly unhinged voice
✅ rock n roll
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time is running out!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
75 physical ARCs of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA are up for grabs in my #goodreadsgiveaway!
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
there's a long-lost generation ship and a depressed monk. come and get it!
ends November 15th
Book giveaway for The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1) by A.D. Sui Nov 01-Nov 15, 2025
Enter to win one of 75 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 01-Nov 15, 2025. Richly layered and intensely compelling from start to finish.” —K...
www.goodreads.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
time is running out!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
giveaway ends tomorrow!
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It's #TransgenderAwarenessWeek. My own awareness of my nonbinary gender identity solidified while I was writing my debut novel ENDPAPERS—about a genderqueer bookbinder struggling to understand herself in post-9/11 NYC, while there was no mainstream language to help her.
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It's #TransgenderAwarenessWeek. My own awareness of my nonbinary gender identity solidified while I was writing my debut novel ENDPAPERS—about a genderqueer bookbinder struggling to understand herself in post-9/11 NYC, while there was no mainstream language to help her.
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At Evening House, in-person and online, our focus is on amazing books, especially indie & global reads. Some of the most enjoyable, mind-bending and heart-touching experiences can end up overlooked or lost inside an abundance of choices.
We're doing our part to put those books front and center.
We're doing our part to put those books front and center.
Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
eveninghousebooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
At Evening House, in-person and online, our focus is on amazing books, especially indie & global reads. Some of the most enjoyable, mind-bending and heart-touching experiences can end up overlooked or lost inside an abundance of choices.
We're doing our part to put those books front and center.
We're doing our part to put those books front and center.
Grappling with some serious existential & financial angst today. Friendly reminder I've got two fun books with big ideas out that cool readers seem to really enjoy. Would love for you to check 'em out, too
As a debut indie author, I’m really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025’s other great new releases!
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Grappling with some serious existential & financial angst today. Friendly reminder I've got two fun books with big ideas out that cool readers seem to really enjoy. Would love for you to check 'em out, too
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My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try!
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
First Aid for Choking Victims, Stories by Matthew Zanoni Müller — Malarkey
This book publishes in November 2024. Preorders will be signed by the author. First Aid for Choking Victims is a collection of mostly longer short stories set in rural areas around Western Massachu...
malarkeybooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try!
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
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QUEER SAINTS features @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @ericraglin1992.bsky.social @sammytotep.bsky.social @itsviviactually.bsky.social @emnays.bsky.social @xavilawrites.bsky.social and many, many more!
If I can reach 1000 followers by the end of the day, I’ll permanently make all the ebooks on my website free.
The queer horror anthologies THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS VOLS I & II, featuring the best horror writers working in the business, and my debut novel I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU.
FREE FOREVER!
The queer horror anthologies THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS VOLS I & II, featuring the best horror writers working in the business, and my debut novel I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU.
FREE FOREVER!
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
QUEER SAINTS features @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @horrorsong.blog @ericraglin1992.bsky.social @sammytotep.bsky.social @itsviviactually.bsky.social @emnays.bsky.social @xavilawrites.bsky.social and many, many more!
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX