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Literary Roadkill

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

May 29, 2020 by Caesar's Wife 2 Comments

Haunted is a series of short stories and poems, loosely related insofar as each is written from the perspective of different member of a group of degenerate sociopaths locked together in a masochistic “Writers’ Retreat”. **trigger warning** this review mentions some extreme and horrific aspects of the book, including miscarriage. The backbone of Haunted that ties each poem and short story together is a horrific three-month-long “Writers’ Retreat”. Each character with a poem and story to tell throughout the novel apparently answered a mysterious advertisement […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: body horror, chuck palahniuk, Transgressive Fiction

Caesar's Wife's CBR12 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: body horror, chuck palahniuk, Transgressive Fiction ·
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