Haunted (Palahniuk novel)

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Haunted

First edition cover
Author	Chuck Palahniuk
Cover artist	Rodrigo Corral Jeff Middleton
Language	English
Genre	Horror, satire, dark comedy
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	May 3, 2005
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	416
ISBN	0-385-50948-0
OCLC	56686360
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3566.A4554 H38 2005
Preceded by	Diary
Followed by	Rant

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. Typical of Palahniuk's work, the dominant motifs in Haunted are sexual deviance, sexual identity, desperation, social distastefulness, disease, murder, death, and existentialism.

The synopsis on the dustjacket describes Haunted as a satire of reality television, but according to Palahniuk, the novel is actually about "the battle for credibility" that has resulted from the ease with which one can publish through the use of modern technology.^[1]