Costa Koutsoutis
@costakout.bsky.social
Writer, professor, old punk. NO CASTLES, THE HOWL OF THE EARTH, & more out now on your favorite e-book platforms. Read MAPMAKERS on Patreon. No roads but the ones we make. He/Him.
costak.wordpress.com
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If I’m lucky, I’ll end up like this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If I’m lucky, I’ll end up like this.
I feel like I’m maybe a decade or so away from a very unfashionable dad fedora.
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I feel like I’m maybe a decade or so away from a very unfashionable dad fedora.
I also disliked them until I aged into them recently and now I am fully into them.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I also disliked them until I aged into them recently and now I am fully into them.
I had to drop out of the subreddit for it because it was just turning into fifty people all unboxing the same three movies for days on end.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I had to drop out of the subreddit for it because it was just turning into fifty people all unboxing the same three movies for days on end.
And I like obtuse and garbage shit but come on guys.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
And I like obtuse and garbage shit but come on guys.
I had to bow out of the fancy blu/ray/DVD communities because it just a lot of collecting VS liking stuff and insisting that some of the most obtuse and/or garbage shit should get a boutique release.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I had to bow out of the fancy blu/ray/DVD communities because it just a lot of collecting VS liking stuff and insisting that some of the most obtuse and/or garbage shit should get a boutique release.
I think it had almost ten!
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I think it had almost ten!
I would simply let the shogun know I will be committing ritual seppuku over this.
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I would simply let the shogun know I will be committing ritual seppuku over this.
Anyway it’s fine if you have Shudder and some friends to laugh at it with, or at least a large sandwich.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Anyway it’s fine if you have Shudder and some friends to laugh at it with, or at least a large sandwich.
Invoke not the spirit of DEATH SPA if you aren’t willing to go full “maybe it’s a haunted computer?”
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Invoke not the spirit of DEATH SPA if you aren’t willing to go full “maybe it’s a haunted computer?”
My continual plea that if you’re gonna do goofy horror with a cheesy/“retro” title you must be SILLY-silly. It’s gotta be too dumb to ever remind you of reality.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My continual plea that if you’re gonna do goofy horror with a cheesy/“retro” title you must be SILLY-silly. It’s gotta be too dumb to ever remind you of reality.
Jesus, glad you two are OK.
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Jesus, glad you two are OK.
I’m quite proud of this short story, a little cyberpunk crime ditty about found family, crypto, and punching YouTube rappers in the face;
“Appreciation In Value”
(this is a work of fiction)
medium.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’m quite proud of this short story, a little cyberpunk crime ditty about found family, crypto, and punching YouTube rappers in the face;
Still on a crime/noir kick, earlier this year Typebar Magazine published my piece about CASINO, one of my favorite gangster movies;
Martin Scorsese's Casino and America's Rotten Promises - Typebar Magazine
Money, murder, and Manifest Destiny.
www.typebarmagazine.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Still on a crime/noir kick, earlier this year Typebar Magazine published my piece about CASINO, one of my favorite gangster movies;
Since its November/Noirvember…back in 2017, Akashic Press published my short crime story “Hit the Till,” inspired by a real crime in my old neighborhood;
"Hit the Till" by Costa Koutsoutis - Akashic Books
The first thing out of his mouth when I sat down was about the High Park. I hadn’t been in maybe a year or so since I’d moved out of the neighborhood, but my brother was a regular . . .
www.akashicbooks.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Since its November/Noirvember…back in 2017, Akashic Press published my short crime story “Hit the Till,” inspired by a real crime in my old neighborhood;
For the just-passed Halloween season, I managed to blog about epistolary fiction and found-footage horror;
A Message from the Underworld
Static, so much analog static, both realistic or otherwise. People who you’re expected to see and think of as real, as your peers, running or chatting on-screen in out-of-context fragments, though …
costak.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
For the just-passed Halloween season, I managed to blog about epistolary fiction and found-footage horror;
Recently I compiled a project that I’d done writing about JRR Tolkien’s legendarium into a single pay-what-you-want webzine;
A Year (Or So) Of Tolkien by Costa Koutsoutis
A webzine collection of my personal essay series on the works of JRR Tolkien.
nightmare-party.itch.io
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Recently I compiled a project that I’d done writing about JRR Tolkien’s legendarium into a single pay-what-you-want webzine;
I have a Patreon where (among other things) I am serializing MAPMAKERS, a mystery about the internet set in a future not too far from now;
Get more from Costa Koutsoutis on Patreon
creating weird genre fiction and nonfiction
www.patreon.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I have a Patreon where (among other things) I am serializing MAPMAKERS, a mystery about the internet set in a future not too far from now;