Ben Arzate
@benarz13.bsky.social
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My sky is blue and my mood is too. benarzate.substack.com Contact: benarz13(at)gmail(dot)com
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My newest novel, a noir, is out now in paperback and Kindle If today the sun should set in all my hopes and cares... US:
a.co/d/60go33B
UK:
amzn.eu/d/b81phl2
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Lauren Bolger
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You all need this book in your hands. It is scary, very dark, and highly fucked up with some awesome dark humor. Also, that cover is so good!!
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Coming 12/30 as an ebook to Godless and to Amazon in January of 2026, my new collection of horror stories, The Dinner Show and Other Consumptions.
@renbolger.bsky.social
says "Arzate is a trope-crusher" and calls it "one wild-ass ride!" Cover art by Ruth Ann Evans.
about 23 hours ago
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Lauren Bolger
4 days ago
Heyyy come get The Barre Incidents for 15% off with the MALARKEY offer code! Still have a few really nice Bookmobile-printed copies and have a few fun things I can add that were part of the preorder package.
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Today's book mail: award-winning Bizarro, extreme horror, and what I got from the NYRB sale.
4 days ago
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My contributor's copy of Bizarro Circus of Madness, edited by
@rileyodellwriter.bsky.social
, came today. Pick it up on Amazon in paperback or Kindle.
15 days ago
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I have a new prose poem up at The Cattle.
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Poetry Selection #9: A Quiet Place to Work by Ben Arzate
send us your weirdest poetry bites
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16 days ago
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My story, Gravel on the Path, has moved up to #4 on the Godless Top Ten!
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Malarkey
19 days ago
Order a copy! Long beautiful stories—and we’ll send stickers and a few zines.
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Nictitating Books
20 days ago
Give if you can! Proceeds go to indie authors having trouble with SNAP.
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Donate to Support Indie Facing Food Insecurity, organized by Desiree Horton
10 awesome authors got together to help raise money for fellow authors who need ou… Desiree Horton needs your support for Support Indie Facing Food Insecurity
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Malarkey
23 days ago
What if you bought a book of poetry?
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Hair Shirt, poems by Adrian Sobol — Malarkey
Published April 1, 2025 Get a free sample here HAIR SHIRT, Adrian Sobol’s second full-length poetry collection, continues his particular take on poetry. Filled with trademark black humor and...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/hairshirt
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I'll have more details about both to share soon, but in addition to a new short story collection coming soon from myself, Rob Ramirez's debut has found a new home. Big things are on the horizon.
22 days ago
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Blood+Honey
30 days ago
Micro-fiction "The Job Interview" by Ben Arzate “The interviewee goes to the nearby window. He jumps out. He falls twenty floors and dies on impact with the sidewalk…The company accepts him for the position two days later….”
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the job interview — Blood+Honey
by Ben Arzate “The interviewee goes to the nearby window. He jumps out. He falls twenty floors and dies on impact with the sidewalk…The company accepts him for the position two days later….”
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/the-job-interview
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Today's book mail is Idiocy by Pierre Guyotat and Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr.
23 days ago
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Good news. My new short story, Gravel on the Path, reached #9 on the Godless Top Ten. Pick it up at
Godless.com
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Malarkey
23 days ago
As we look toward 2026, we need more book club members. Join up now for a year of book mail and, while we have them, a free t-shirt.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bookclub
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I went to the re-launch of Iowa's Biggest Book Sale and here's what I picked up.
24 days ago
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Today is Friday in California
about 1 month ago
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Íde “of March” Hennessy
about 1 month ago
🧵5 - my story of crushing depression in King Ludd’s Ray from
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Get it here:
malarkeybooks.com/store/klr18-19
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Over at my Substack, I take a look at a book the debut novel of Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale. I was surprised to learn this one was out of print.
27 days ago
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Today is the release day of Bizarro Circus of Madness, edited by
@rileyodellwriter.bsky.social
It contains my story "The Garfield Phones from the Ocean." Get it on Kindle at Amazon.
28 days ago
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My short prose piece, "The Job Interview," is up at
@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
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30 days ago
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Remember Saturday Morning Cartoons? What if they held a dark secret? Check out my short novel, Saturday Morning Mind Control from D&T Publishing for a quick Halloween read.
about 1 month ago
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Malarkey
about 1 month ago
Celebrate the Blue Jays with
@emilyjoythomas.bsky.social
’s story “Blue Jays in Cottage Country” from KLR 4, which also features a great one by
@chrisstevenson.bsky.social
. Buy it for $4 or, while the Series is going, get it free with any book order.
malarkeybooks.com/store/king-l...
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King Ludd's Rag No. 4 — Malarkey
Issue 4 of King Ludd’s Rag, our zine of long-form fiction, features stories by Emily Thomas Mani and Christopher Stevenson. KLR is printed on regular computer paper and folded and stapled by hand. 14...
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/king-ludds-rag-no-4
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I finished the second round of edits on a manuscript of a short story collection and sent it to a few authors for quotes. I also had a short prose piece accepted for publication. More news soon.
about 1 month ago
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Eric Williams
about 1 month ago
spent ~$100 this morning alone on books, so why not slide into the ol' DMs and get yerself a copy of TOADSTONES, the greatest collection of weird fiction ever written by mortal man! $25 flat fee (includes S+H!!!) and i'll scribe you a monster guy in there AND send you a silly S&S bumpersticker
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Got some
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
from Craig Rodgers today. Thanks Craig!
about 1 month ago
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I have a new story up at Godless. A surreal nightmare about two men breaking out of prison, only to find themselves stuck on a seemingly endless path.
about 1 month ago
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I had to start a new FB page. Add me if you're on there.
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about 1 month ago
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Eric Williams
about 2 months ago
honestly, buy a hundred copies and hand em out to the trick-or-treaters
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Malarkey
about 2 months ago
Finally got some Malarkey books in an NPR article!
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Over at Horror Realm, I talk about my new novel, If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares...
about 2 months ago
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Malarkey
about 2 months ago
Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by
@johnchrostek.com
, for
@trentbwrites.bsky.social
’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now!
malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...
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New Thomas Pynchon acquired.
about 2 months ago
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I finished putting together a manuscript today. Next step is editing. Stay tuned.
about 2 months ago
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Eric Williams
about 2 months ago
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 ...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/toadstones-eric-williams/8847d7e5a9644f3f?ean=9781088017302&next=t
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New
@dharlanwilson.bsky.social
in the mail today.
about 2 months ago
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Over at my Substack, I review a collection of dark stories about family by National Book award-winning author, Samanta Schweblin.
about 2 months ago
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Got some
@ghoulish.bsky.social
in the mail today.
@michaelallenrose.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Malarkey
3 months ago
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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Some updates and a couple cover reveals at the latest edition of my Substack.
3 months ago
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Got some gritty crime fiction today from
@tusitalabruni.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Malarkey
3 months ago
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.
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Recently acquired books from
@bitterkarella.bsky.social
@whiskeytit.com
@kaijupoet.bsky.social
@davidscotthay.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Hell yeah! I hope you enjoy those books!
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3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ8PPZZB
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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.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ8PPZZB
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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
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Reposting. Come see us at the Bizarro booth At Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend!
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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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