"Reading a Palahniuk novel is like getting zipped inside a boxer's heavy bag while the author goes to work on you, pounding you until there is nothing left but a big bag of bones and blood and pain." —
The Miami Herald
"To Palahniuk's credit, there is something here to appall almost every sensibility. The author has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade." —
The New York Post
"Frequently entertaining [and] often appalling. . . . There are paragraphs here--entire pages, in fact--that are as disgusting as anything I've ever read. Truly vivid and harrowing (and often quite funny)." —
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Summer reading for people who like their lit doused in bodily fluids. . . .
Haunted has an anarchic sensibility that hurdles over the top." —
Time Out New York
"Chuck Palahniuk is one of the most intriguing writers of our time. [
Haunted] is a blend of stories that are among the most horrifying, stomach-churning and mind-blowing tales ever encountered." —
Tucson Citizen
"Chuck Palahniuk's rightful place is among literary giants. He combines the masculinity of Ernest Hemingway, the satirical bent of Juvenal and the attitude of Lenny Bruce." —
Greensboro News & Record
"To Palahniuk's credit, there is something here to appall almost every sensibility. The author has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade." —
New York Post
"Funny, always on the edge of reality and bloodied by the profound horror of narcissism." —
Playboy
"Place this bet in your time capsule: Chuck Palahniuk's novels will be required reading in American literature classes 100 years from now." —
The Fort Myers News-Press
"Palahniuk is as unique and colorful as ever." —
The Onion
"Searing and honest. . . . His nasty detail and unimaginably horrible scenarios will give some people nightmares. This creepy fiction masterpiece could be the definitive novel of our time for its genre." —
The Cincinnati News Record
"Chuck Palahniuk appears to be going around the bend. . . . A satire of reality television--an effective one--but also an homage to horror stories and a meditation on pop culture." —
The Seattle Times
"The most original work of fiction this year." —
The Guardian (London)
"Chuck Palahniuk is up to his old tricks. . . . His prose is, as always, gorgeous." —
Entertainment Weekly
"One part
Canterbury Tales, one part
Lord of the Flies, and 100 percent classic Palahniuk. . . . [His] grisliest book yet." —
Broward-Palm Beach New Times