Appallingly entertaining, "Haunted" is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest - which means his most extreme and his most provocative. 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 at one level a satire of reality television. Comrade Snarky wakes up after being thought dead and eats some of the flesh her friends cut off of her. As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. In short order, the place has become an unlivable nightmare. All the writers are put up in a well-stocked private complex (a former theater), but each of them has the idea to sabotage their own stuff with the intent that their subsequent tell-all book deals would be more compelling. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight. Chuck Palahniuk stated that his goal in the story was to create horror among ordinary things. Subverted horribly in Chuck Palahniuks Haunted 2005. But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theatre where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. The subject lines to Chuck’s emails are declarative, to the point of him sounding like AI. They 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. When Chuck Palahniuk didn’t show up for our initial Zoom interview, I assumed he was dead. They are told by the people who have all answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. Twenty-two of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at once. Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifyi.Haunted book. "Haunted" is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. Read 4,689 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.