Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest-which means his most extreme and his most provocative. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. It draws from a great literary tradition- The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works, Frankenstein-to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. Haunted is on one level a satire of reality television- The Real World meets Alive. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more extreme the stories they tell-and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/nonfiction blockbuster that will surely be made from their plight. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months. CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novelsBeautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, and Fight Clubwhich have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encountersometimes all at once. But “here” turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world-and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of “real life” that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter-sometimes all at once. Haunted is set in a drab old theater, past it's prime, boarded up, invisible, and impenetrable to the outside world. But Haunted is so much more than that and so worth reading. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. No matter how much you can take, you will squirm and say 'Oh My GOD' out loud on the bus or plane or couch or wherever it is you read.
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