Haunted

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Marc Cashman, Erik Davies, Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 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.

©2005 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"[The stories] consistently, powerfully transcend their macabre premises to showcase the heart beating beneath the horrors." (Publishers Weekly)

not for the freight of heart

even for chuck, this book is hard to sollow. very graphic a detail. My advice is if you start reading this book, be prepared to set it down for short periods, AND FINISH IT EVENTUALLY

Very good read! Worth the credit.

I enjoyed this listen. I would give it a 4.5 (if I could). Worth the credit, top 5 of this author's work IMO.

Modern day Canterbury Tales with a horror twist!

loved this book so much...I definitely cringed in some parts and had to take little brakes other times (like when a character cuts off his man part with a cleaver) but this is by far my favorite of this authors books 📚

its great!

it's great! would highly reccomend listening to this. it a great book and well narrated.

holy shit balls

You should read this book it was awesome , it was as if it questioned what is really scary. how far you're willing to go, what is the lowest you can reach for

Real horror

Great stories for gore fans. Narrators were excellent. The book wasn't what I expected but was classically a Palahniuk book.

I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would

The narration was very well done, I just didn't really enjoy it that much unfortunately

Gross

W O W. It took awhile to finish because I could only take so much at one time.

OMG wow, not for the squeamish

There is so much crazy in this book, but I highly recommend it. The first story is worth a credit all by itself, and you get a whole lot of stomach turn gore to boot.

None of the other reviews explicitly warned me

so ill warn you, although I'm not sure if you're allowed to say this in a review. This has graphic and specific sexual child abuse. All the disgusting and graphic violence and funny/shameful stories about masturbation and sex I could stomach but there is a few sections with cavalier yet detailed child abuse. I still like the book but here's the TW I wish I had had.