Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter. They are told by the people who have all answered an ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. They 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 theatre where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight.

Haunted

Alex Dubois

Jasper

      No, this was only a writers' retreat until it was too late for us to be anything,

Her face swimming and flickering with aerobic work, her

     to diminish initial buyer resistance.

With a long-term goal of becoming someone's long-term investment.

We fight wars. We fight for peace. We fight hunger. We love

      We fight and fight and fight, with our guns or mouths or

       And the planet is never one lick better than it was before

'And if you're really stupid,' Director Denial says, 'you die

      You made the world just a little bit better place.

'I fainted...I fainted and you ate my ass?'

She looks at the empty, greasy paper plate still on the snack bar, and she says:

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