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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 22h

the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love
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Toadstones

Check out Toadstones - <p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to ...

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 2d

New @dharlanwilson.bsky.social in the mail today.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 3d

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BOOK REVIEW: Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin

Dark domestic stories from Argentina.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 3d

Over at my Substack, I review a collection of dark stories about family by National Book award-winning author, Samanta Schweblin.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 16d

Been wanting to read it for a while.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 16d

Got some @ghoulish.bsky.social in the mail today.

@michaelallenrose.bsky.social

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations!

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22d

We can’t fix this world but we can put more books in it. To a lot of people that doesn’t matter but often it’s the things that people think don’t matter that are the most meaningful. I don’t know.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 23d

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the feel bad dispatch #9

Planes, trains, and brains.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 23d

Some updates and a couple cover reveals at the latest edition of my Substack.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 25d

Got some gritty crime fiction today from @tusitalabruni.bsky.social

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 25d

Overestimated how many copies we actually have available. This is actually your last chance to order a copy of Hellarkey IV. We will be sold out very soon.

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 25d

Will begin shipping copies of Hellarkey over the weekend. Order a copy and you get some spooky stories to read, help us recover some of the costs, and get a free zine in the bargain! malarkeybooks.com/store/hellar...

Hellarkey vol. IV — Malarkey

Hellarkey IV 56 pages. 6.14 by 9.21 inches. This item will ship in September or early October. Hellarkey is a horror-themed magazine published by Malarkey every October. Each summer, mystical ed...

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 25d

Recently acquired books from @bitterkarella.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @kaijupoet.bsky.social @davidscotthay.bsky.social

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 25d

Hell yeah! I hope you enjoy those books!

Teresa Ardrey (She/Her) @teresa-ardrey.bsky.social · 25d

Book mail!
My Ardent Love for the Pencil by @vikhinao.bsky.social and King Ludd's Rag no 24, both from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social the best book club around.
&: If Today The Sun Should Set on All my Hopes and Cares and the sky is black and blue like a batterered child both by @benarz13.bsky.social

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 27d

Facebook suspended my account. Possibly permanently. I'm not even sure why. I have another account there under Benjamin Arzate. Feel free to shoot me a friend request.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Bizarro Circus of Madness

Bizarro Circus of Madness - Kindle edition by Odell, Riley, Starr, Em , Chambers, John, Dorr, James , Gray, Sebastian, Morris, Jacy, Carson, Nathan , Rogers, Alex, Millard, Stephen , Swann, Madeleine . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bizarro Circus of Madness.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · Sep 9

My story, "The Garfield Phones from the Ocean," will be in the anthology Bizarro Circus of Madness, releasing Nov. 4th. Thank you to Riley Odell for having me!

It's currently available for pre-order on Kindle.

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · Sep 9

check it out! My story "The Very, Very Last Gender Apocalypse," about the very very last gender apocalypse, is gonna be in the Bizzaro Circus of Madness anthology!! :D
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Bizarro Circus of Madness

Bizarro Circus of Madness - Kindle edition by Odell, Riley, Starr, Em , Chambers, John, Dorr, James , Gray, Sebastian, Morris, Jacy, Carson, Nathan , Rogers, Alex, Millard, Stephen , Swann, Madeleine . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bizarro Circus of Madness.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · Sep 7

It was exhausting work but a lot of fun. Congratulations on selling so many copies of your books!

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · Sep 7

Update: These have been sold.

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · Sep 7

Printers Row went really well this year! Only two books left. The first one to message me can get both signed and sent for only $15.

Thank you @michaelallenrose.bsky.social, Sauda Namir, @renbolger.bsky.social, @tusitalabruni.bsky.social and everyone at @whiskeytit.com and @deadskypub.bsky.social

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · Sep 5

Reposting. Come see us at the Bizarro booth At Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend!

Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · Sep 1

Gonna be here next weekend at the Bizarro Booth! Will be there Sat morning and all day Sunday. Come on down!!

September 6&7, 2025
10A-6P
Free admission
Printers Row Lit Fest 2025
40th anniversary
150+ booksellers
200+ presenters
70+ programs for all ages on 6 stages
South Dearborn St
Ida B. Wells St to Polk St
Printersrowlitfest.org
#printersrowlitfest

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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · Aug 29

Next weekend, I'll be at the Printer's Row Lit Fest with the Chicago Bizarro Writers Association and @whiskeytit.com. I'll have signed copies of several of my titles for sale.

Come by and pick up books or just to say hi.

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · Aug 19

@malarkeybooks.bsky.social is hungry so we're back at it!
Mealarkey's Fall Menu call opens soon.

Guidelines — Malarkey

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · Aug 13

August has been decent so far; we need it to be ridiculous. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Tell your parents and your children and your neighbors and your coworkers and the person looking over your shoulder on the bus—to read, to buy, to exude Malarkey.

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The Grift: Volume 2 — Malarkey

The Grift, the greatest and most important literary magazine in history, is back, this time with work from Jacquelyn Bengfort, Zachary Kocanda, Christopher Stevenson, Neil Willcox , Dereck Heckman, Cr...

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