Justin V. Chiang, author

Fiction and memoir rooted in Philadelphia.
The infrastructure is haunted.

Werehouse
In Progress
07
Werehouse
Horror · Comedy
A young therapist's first posting at a halfway house for people with transmissible zoanthropy forces her to choose between the institution she trusted and the residents she was hired to help.
The Heliotrope Hour
06
The Heliotrope Hour
Gothic Fiction
A man inherits a house on a moor and discovers that the loneliness he's been carrying his whole life has a name, a face, and a garden.
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Repossessed
05
Repossessed
Horror · Comedy
Charlie Young repossesses cars and ignores ghosts. He's been seeing the dead since he was six, long enough to know better than to help them. But Philadelphia is built on bones, and the dead are getting tired of being ignored.
"...a compelling read with a hopeful message about opening yourself up to others." — Natasha DuBose
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Rendered
04
Rendered
Literary Fiction
Maren designs places that feel real enough to believe in. Then a harbor she's never visited starts showing up in her work: the same lamplighter, an hour that doesn't exist, details she has no way of knowing. The place isn't just familiar. It's remembering her.
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Written
03
Written
Literary Fiction
Owen Hart finds a published novel that mirrors his unfinished manuscript down to the marrow, and he can't let it go. The truth is stranger than plagiarism and older than either of them.
"A haunting, razor-sharp exploration of creativity and obsession that burrows under your skin and refuses to leave."
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Feed the River
02
Feed the River
Fiction
Philadelphia podcaster Jake Sansoni has built a career debunking patterns that look like evidence. Then the researcher he's been publicly disagreeing with goes silent, and the thread she left behind keeps pointing somewhere it shouldn't.
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The Accidental Architect
01
The Accidental Architect
Memoir
A memoir about growing up inside broken systems and learning to build better ones. Nothing here happens fast. It's about what accumulates, and what it costs to become reliable when you were never protected.
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In Progress
Werehouse: A young therapist's first posting at a halfway house for people with transmissible zoanthropy forces her to choose between the institution she trusted and the residents she was hired to help.
New
The Heliotrope Hour: Now available. A man inherits a house on a moor and discovers that the loneliness he's been carrying his whole life has a name, a face, and a garden.
Coming Soon
Repossessed: audiobook narrated by Darin F. Earl II.
Justin V. Chiang

Justin V. Chiang writes novels about haunted infrastructure. Repo men who see ghosts, houses that inherit their owners' loneliness, cities with rooms that were never built. By day he builds analytics systems for a trading firm, which is probably why his fiction keeps asking what happens when the system notices you back.

He is the author of The Accidental Architect, Feed the River, Written, Rendered, Repossessed, and The Heliotrope Hour. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, four kids, and three cats, one of whom supervises all drafting.

Based in Philadelphia, PA
Genres Literary Fiction · Horror · Memoir
For queries, rights, and general correspondence:
justinvchiang@gmail.com