Ultimately, he finds himself stuck on the bottom of the pool and must gnaw through his own innards to free himself and avoid drowning.

Even with chlorine, there was my sister to worry about. And it’s not even the most extreme one but it’s the one that makes people pass out,” Palahniuk says. I read this as part of his “Haunted” anthology and its the first time I recall reading something and feeling like I really wanted to stop because I was so disturbed by the relentlessly horrific imagery. Everything is true here, even if it’s not. NoSleep is a place for realistic horror stories.

I don’t recall having read anything else. Guts is actually 3 short stories, but the most relevant is the last one. It’s a short story published on playboy magazine. Appallingly entertaining, Haunted is Chuck Palahniuk at his finest - which means his most extreme and his most provocative.Chuck Palahniuk received some surprising reactions to his new short my last novel, I read a short story called Guts for the first time in public. 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. Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise.

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