Do you like your horror with a little spice? Do you like your smut with a side of gore? As a character in one of my favorite zombie movies put it: "I like death with sex. Do you like sex with death?" ...

Podcast Episode · Malarkey Public Radio · October 1 · 41m

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Underground fiction by a crazy canuck.

Rick is divorced, has a drinking problem, and works as a janitor at his local high school. During one of his shifts, he makes a shocking and disturbing discovery in the girl's bathroom that sucks him ...

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...

Books by Ben Arzate

Paperback Between 2001 and 2013, the leader of the Japanese noise band The Gerogerigegege, Juntaro Yamanouchi, disappeared. Where did he go for over a decade? Perhaps he met a victim of the Slit-Mout...

Just a reminder to everyone who’s been enjoying The Substack Review — It is FREE and will always remain that way.

Books by Ben Arzate

July 2026 Preorders will be signed by the author and shipped out in June/July 2026, accompanied by a bookmark and a bonus micro-chapbook of the author’s poetry. I loved  Submarines  fo...

Prose poem

King Ludd’s Rag No. 26 features stories by Kay Vaindal and Eli Sugerman.

Purgatory took a trip through Ben Arzate’s brain, and oh my goodness, what a trip.

Dystopian furry philosophical fiction.

Dear Malarkey Readers, I hope your summer is going well. My own summer is certainly going. Ronald Reagan once said “A few months ago I told the American...