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Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short stories , most preceded by a free verse poem. Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative , as told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way.
Haunted (Palahniuk novel), by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005; Haunted (Angel novel), a 2002 novel based on the television series Angel; Haunted (The Hardy Boys), a 2008 novel featuring The Hardy Boys in the Undercover Brothers series; Haunted, a 1988 novel by James Herbert; Haunted, a 1990 novel in the Fear Street series by R.L. Stine
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Twenty-six books in, the author has made a career of writing about loners, misfits, and deviants. But the man behind these controversial and transgressive fictions is full of surprises.
Charles Michael Palahniuk (/ ˈ p ɔː l ə n ɪ k /; [1] [2] born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. [3] [4] He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories.
Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive fiction stories [1] written by multiple authors, edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer. 72 stories were submitted to the fan-made Palahniuk website "The Cult," and then put through a vetting process. [2] Palahniuk then selected and edited 20 of these for publication in the ...
Jason Sheehan, reviewing the novel for NPR, called most of the book a "quick, horrifying descent into madness", but that Palahniuk "just can't stick the landing" and that "it ends with a whimper rather than a bang".
Lullaby uses a framing device, alternating between the normal, linear narrative and the temporal end after every few chapters.Palahniuk often uses this format alongside a major plot twist near the end of the book which relates in some way to this temporal end (what Palahniuk refers to as "the hidden gun").