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Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas, Sep 14, 2010, Fiction, 352 pages. ␜a wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief.␝␠San Francisco Chronicle Tender Branson†last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult†is. Survivor: A Novel, Chuck Palahniuk, Mar 21, 2011, Fiction, 289 pages. After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity and trying to forget the boy she fell in love with-the boy who must not exist, cannot exist. The Haunted, Jessica Verday, Aug 31, 2010, Juvenile Fiction, 480 pages. Presents short stories and excerpts of novels that deal with ghosts and hauntings.

(NA), Gareth Stevens Publishing, Jul 1, 2006, Juvenile Fiction, 128 pages.

Appallingly entertaining, HAUNTED is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest - which means his most extreme and his most provocative. 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. HAUNTED is at one level a satire of reality television.

And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight. 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. 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.

They are told by the people who have all answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. Twenty-two of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at once. 1 Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk,, , 2006 DOWNLOAD Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise.