Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you?ll ever encounter?sometimes all at once.
Doubleday
May 2005
416 pages ISBN: 0385509480 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of
stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three
of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing,
stomach-churning tales you�ll ever encounter--sometimes all
at once. 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.
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. 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.
Haunted is on one level a satire of
reality television--The Real World meets
Alive. 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. Appallingly entertaining,
Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest--which means
his most extreme and his most provocative.
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