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Haunted

by Chuck Palahniuk

Stories from a retreat gone wrong

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Stories from a retreat gone wrong

Haunted combines a frame narrative about a writers’ retreat with twenty-three stories told by its participants. The retreat’s host withholds basic comforts, and the group’s growing desperation shapes both the tales they share and their efforts to become the central figure in a prospective reality show. This structure links the book’s horror with a satirical focus on storytelling, self-presentation, and competition for attention. Its mix of fictional accounts and the escalating situation around them gives the collection a shared narrative thread, rather than presenting the stories as entirely separate pieces.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in horror fiction structured as a connected collection of stories.
  • Those drawn to narratives about competitive self-presentation and reality television.

Themes

Storytelling and self-presentationCompetition for attentionHorror and desperation

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Book overview

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining classic Fight Club comes an utterly contemporary, appallingly entertaining tale of people desperate to tell their story at any cost.

"To Palahniuk's credit, there is something here to appall almost every sensibility. The author has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade." --The New York Post

Haunted
is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They're told by people who have answered an ad for a writer's retreat and unwittingly joined a "Survivor"-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you'll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.
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