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. 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.
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. 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. They are told by the people who have all answered the ad headlined "Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months".
These stories were told by the people who have answered the ad headlined Artists. Twenty-two of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you"ll ever encounter - sometimes all at once. Haunted () Palahniuk Chuck ( ): A novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise.
"Haunted" is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise.
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