And this is saying a lot, considering how reluctant I was to read Palahniuk ever again. There are the above-mentioned problems with the voice, and some elements aren't believable at all (which is saying something for a book like this), but Haunted is one hell of a ride. Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest-which means his most extreme and his most provocative. But be clear: Haunted isn't, by any means, literature. throughout the entire book, he writes in the first person. These people are writers, people who have somewhat disturbed minds, and Palahniuk must have a disturbed mind to have written this novel. In Haunted, he chooses to write about people who are similar to him. 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. Chuck Palahniuk write with a unique style and highly significant style. 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. 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. This list from the very beginning is highly subjective and the top five could be in a totally different order if you asked me a week, a month, or a year from now. 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. Here now I happily present my top 5 Doctor Who Companions. This crowd of us, his gifted students, locked away from the ordinary world for three months. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter-sometimes all at once. An isolated writers colony, where we could work, run by an old, old, dying man named Whittier, until it wasnt. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise.