They all saw the same ad for a three-month writer's retreat. The characters are named after their personalities: Miss Sneezy, Agent Tattletale, Miss America, Comrade Snarky. Haunted is less a collection of horror stories than a warped satire, a combination of Survivor, Fear Factor and that Exquisite Corpse game where each person contributes a paragraph to the same story. The story in question, Guts, is such an over-the-top grossout spectacular that it ends up being more funny than disturbing. There's no in-between, especially not when the main thing people are saying about this collection is that one of the stories makes audiences at author readings pass out, weep and vomit.
The buzz about Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk's new collection of linked short stories, Haunted, is the type that will either scare you off immediately or have you scratching at bookshop doors to get in the minute the book comes out.
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