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As the storytellers grow more desperate they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show or film that they expect will be made from their plight. "Haunted" is a thriller comedy that revolves around a group of characters who answer an ad for a writers retreat and unwittingly end up competing in a "Survivor"-like scenario, where the host withholds heat, power and food. Palahniuk's "Haunted" is the latest to secure a director - Koen Mortier of last year's Ex-Drummer has signed on to write the adaptation and direct. With that disregard comes the freedom that only books have”.Chuck Palahniuk's books are going fast, so if you want to direct one, hurry up and throw your name into the hat. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades. But the best explanation may lie with the author himself: “a film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Or, perhaps its satirical take on celebrity culture would require updating a decade on. So why has Haunted yet to be adapted into film? Perhaps the narrative is too fragmented, blending a novel, short stories and poetry in one.

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When a serial killer of the homeless starts including these nouveau-poor in his spree, however, the social divers are appalled to find themselves with no avenue for help. “Social divers are the new social climbers”. “Anonymity is the new fame”, one character declares. ‘Slumming’, meanwhile, predates the later craze of ‘poverty porn’, showcasing the rich and famous’ fetishisation of the poor: sleeping rough and faking homelessness just for the thrill of it. “From the minute we sat down, we tried to explain…” the narrator rationalises, in turn misgendering the woman and echoing a culture which can work against its own social progress. The original group, unable to accept her as one of their own, viciously attack her in a frenzy of transphobic violence. At an all-female victim support group for sufferers of male violence, a transsexual woman attends.

In ‘Speaking Bitterness’, the fine line preventing social justice from tipping into injustice is exposed. Likewise, the individual stories of Haunted lampoon society through a horrific lens. They turn to self-mutilation and murder, all with the goal of marketing themselves as the most sympathetic survivor of the writing retreat from Hell. Trapped within the writing retreat, the characters start to compete to create the best personal narrative arc for when they are eventually rescued and exposed to a media storm.

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First published in 2005 during the peak of reality TV like Big Brother, Haunted‘s framing narrative skewers the fame-hungry culture of modern celebrity. However, like all the greatest works of horror, Haunted seethes with social satire. The story focuses on the final four people on Earth: a family, suffocating themselves in their car. The global population then commits suicide en masse, with the belief that with no more bodies to carry souls, everyone will emigrate to Venus. The imperfect, meanwhile, are doomed to live out cyclical lives. In ‘Obsolete’, humanity discovers that human souls achieve immortality on Venus. ‘The Nightmare Box’ and ‘Obsolete’, for instance, are pure existential dread.

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It is here, isolated and slowly descending into insanity, that each character pens their story.įar from the splatter of ‘Guts’, however, these stories span the full breadth of horror. Told by a group of dehumanised stereotypes named the likes of Comrade Snarky and the Earl of Slander, these stories are connected by the framing narrative of a writing retreat: “abandon your lives for three months”, declares the advert.

Yet, this infamous tale is far from the main course, instead serving only as an appetiser: the first of twenty-three gruesome works which make up Palahniuk’s ‘novel of stories’, Haunted. Following a sex-starved teenager in search of the ultimate orgasm, ‘Guts’ ends with the youth’s trip to a swimming pool suction system, and the story earning its name. The legend foes that over the course of reading his story ‘Guts’ across the world, Chuck Palahniuk caused sixty-seven people to faint. Be it because they’re too drenched with gore, too dark, or just too damn weird, a host of horror writing stirs silent and underappreciated.

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In the past year alone, horror movie heavyweights like IT, Annihilation and The Ritual have all brought to life the nightmares of the page.īut not every book claws its way to the silver screen. As early as the classic Hammer monsters of Dracula and Frankenstein, horror cinema has been inseparable from literature.