Appallingly entertaining,В HauntedВ is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest-which means his most extreme and his most provocative. However, all the characters share the distinctively choppy writing style of Chuck Palahniuk, as well as his grim world view and fetishistic attraction to suffering. It draws from a great literary tradition-The Canterbury Tales,В The Decameron, the English storytellers in the Villa Diodati who produced, among other works,В Frankenstein-to tell an utterly contemporary tale of people desperate that their story be told at any cost. The main narrative is divided by 23 short stories, one from each character. At this point in my exploration of the most disturbing story ever, I was starting to feel a bit weary of my quest. 'Guts' is a story out of Chuck Palahnuik's collection-of-stories-in-the-form-of-a-novel, Haunted. 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.HauntedВ is on one level a satire of reality television-The Real WorldВ meetsВ Alive. Disturbometer: 9 - 10 out of 10 Another entry from the most disturbing story list. But вЂњhereвЂќ 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. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined вЂњWritersвЂ™ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,вЂќ and who are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of вЂњreal lifeвЂќ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales youвЂ™ll ever encounter-sometimes all at once. HauntedВ by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise.

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