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John Chrostek

Goodreads Author

Born

The United States

Website

http://www.johnchrostek.com

Genre

Fiction, Horror, Fantasy

Member Since

October 2022

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Average rating: 4.33 · 39 ratings · 19 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Boxcutters 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feast of the Pale Leviathan 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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John Chrostek liked David Brehmer's review of Boxcutters: "John Chrostek's wide-ranging collection makes obvious the author is a dedicated student of strange fiction and epic storytelling and also possesses a boundless imagination. There are echoes of Kafka, Dick, Le Guin, Vonnegut, and Nabokov, but his crea" Read more of this review »
Feb 22, 2026 11:21AM · see review
John Chrostek and 3 other people liked T.J. Price's review of (Th)ings and (Th)oughts: "Lydia Davis & Leonora Carrington fashion homunculi from one another's hearts, breathe a strange, magical life into them, and then send them off into the dark wilderness to gather folktales from the folktale tree; all the while, Chekov & Kafka—in the " Read more of this review »
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John Chrostek rated a book really liked it The Singularity by Dino Buzzati	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John Chrostek liked Chris’s status update Chris Scott is currently reading Deliver Thy Pigs
Feb 05, 2026 02:21PM
John Chrostek is now following Joshua Trent Brown Author of The Holon Project Volume 1
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John Chrostek liked Travis’s status update Travis Johnson wants to read The Walls Are Closing In On Us
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John Chrostek rated a book it was amazing The Fisherman by John Langan	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John Chrostek is now following André Alexis Author of Fifteen Dogs (Quincunx, #2)
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John Chrostek rated a book it was amazing Fifteen Dogs (Quincunx, #2) by André Alexis	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John Chrostek rated a book it was amazing Glossy Eyed, Buzzy Fly by Michael Farfel (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Farfel strikes again. Schizophrenic Columbo tears through a acid-washed stain in the world and tumbles through a sea of stars, meditating on the impact we leave in the world and inside other people, in the spaces we can hide in, the folds of our sagg ...more
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