Made up of 23 of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales listeners will ever encounter, Haunted is Palahniuk at his finest--which means his most extreme and his most provocative. Unabridged. 11 CDs.

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.

Narrator:

Various

Publisher:

Random House Audio

ISBN:

9780739302866

Publication date:

May 2005

Length:

149mm

Width:

154mm

Thickness:

34mm

Weight:

304g

Illustrations:

Digital

Reading a Palahniuk novel is like getting zipped inside a boxer's heavy bag while the author goes to work on you, pounding you until there is nothing left but a big bag of bones and blood and pain.
-- The Miami Herald
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
Frequently entertaining [and] often appalling. . . . There are paragraphs here--entire pages, in fact--that are as disgusting as anything I've ever read. Truly vivid and harrowing (and often quite funny).
-- Minneapolis Star Tribune
Summer reading for people who like their lit doused in bodily fluids.. . . Haunted has an anarchic sensibility that hurdles over the top. -- Time Out New York
Chuck Palahniuk is one of the most intriguing writers of our time. [ Haunted ] is a blend of stories that are among the most horrifying, stomach-churning and mind-blowing tales ever encountered. -- Tucson Citizen
Chuck Palahniuk's rightful place is among literary giants. He combines the masculinity of Ernest Hemingway, the satirical bent of Juvenal and the attitude of Lenny Bruce. -- Greensboro News & Record
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. -- New York Post
Funny, always on the edge of reality and bloodied by the profound horror of narcissism. -- Playboy
Place this bet in your time capsule: Chuck Palahniuk's novels will be required reading in American literature classes 100 years fromnow. -- The Fort Myers News-Press
Palahniuk is as unique and colorful as ever. -- The Onion
Searing and honest. ...His nasty detail and unimaginably horrible scenarios will give some people nightmares. This creepy ?ction masterpiece could be the de?nitive novel of our time for its genre. -- The Cincinnati News Record
Chuck Palahniuk appears to be going around the bend. ...A satire of reality television-an effective one-but also an homage to horror stories and a meditation on pop culture. -- The Seattle Times
The most original work of ?ction this year. -- The Guardian (London)
Chuck Palahniuk is up to his old tricks. ...His prose is, as always, gorgeous. -- Entertainment Weekly
One part Canterbury Tales, one part Lord of the Flies, and 100 percent classic Palahniuk. ...[His] grisliest book yet. --Broward--Palm Beach New Times

From the Trade Paperback edition.