But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world, and where heat and power and, most important, food are in increasingly short supply. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined 'Writers' Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months', and who 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. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter, sometimes all at once.

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 of them, to be precise.