FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
DEEP OVERSTOCK
2025
AN ELDRITCH BODY HORROR &
DARK FANTASY ADVENTURE
FOR FANS OF: KAIJU, CULTS & ASTRAL REALMS
A man dozes off on a river raft, only to awaken adrift at sea and swallowed whole by a colossal titan. But death is not the end for Owen. Inside the Leviathan, he discovers a community of survivors, eking out a precarious existence amidst the creature’s flesh and the ocean’s debris.
Escape seems impossible until a new arrival sparks a series of revelations. They soon learn that their fates are intertwined with a mysterious cult dwelling in the immortal city of New Atlantis.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
“Brimming with heart, adventure, and imagination, Feast of the Pale Leviathan is the best cosmic horror epic I’ve read in quite some time.“
“Robert Louis Stevenson by way of Lovecraft and John Carpenter… Chrostek’s ability to keep it all spinning is frequently breathtaking.”
“What a crazy ride this is!“
BOXCUTTERS
MALARKEY BOOKS
2025
A SHORT STORY COLLECTION
//PARANOID FICTION/HORROR/DARK FANTASY/SCI-FI//
FOR FANS OF: SAUNDERS, PKD, VONNEGUT, KAFKA, LEGUIN & LIGOTTI
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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 office’s coveted HR department vacancy, earning him a bitter detractor. A famous sculptor locks himself in a glass apartment in the park, turning his entire life into an exhibit. A young cashier takes his lumps to endure his small town’s mandatory fight club.
John Chrostek’s collection Boxcutters packs together thirteen stories of fools, freaks and fallen stars slamming against the boundary lines, desperate to push through grief and terror to find something close to freedom. With sharp, funny and incisive prose, this collection carves a through-line through the past, present, mythic and mundane to figure out how the hell we got here and whether there’s any chance at all we might get to break out.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
“Chrostek’s prose is so assured and confident that I felt immediate pleasure upon starting each story and not having a clue as to where I was about to be taken. I came to expect the unexpected, and that’s a good thing.“
“The stories in this book are bonkers, in the best way. Truly a pleasure.”
“Thoroughly compelling, ridiculously engaging, wholly original.“
John Chrostek 