Haunted
- 432
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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About the book
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 that 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 328 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 68% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.9 | 28 | 9% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 37 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 263 | 80% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“DNF Best way to describe this book. That conversation you have with your horror loving best friend, you discuss Serbian Film, Irreversible, The Human Centipede and your friend eulogises about all the hidden messages and how the film is a take on modern day society…”
“It's giving “I'm 14 and this is deep.” All the pseudo-intellectual messaging of the 2010s “Russian Sleep Experiment” creepypasta, except this is 400 pages, for some reason. Also, maybe it's my fault for having unsupervised internet access during the age of LiveLeak, but there's virtually…”
Frequently asked
How long is Haunted?
It has 432 pages — longer than 61% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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