It succeeded its job of terrifying me though. But, with that said, I do not want to read about molestation in such an uncensored manner. I understand that this book is an in-depth exploration and observation into the innermost reaches of the human psyche. My personal issue with these stories is how graphic and detailed they are when discussing such heinous and vile acts.
If you are especially sensitive to pedophilia or molestation, I would steer clear of this collection of short stories as there are a handful that include such themes.
However I do have a few gripes about this book. It was a real think piece on human behaviour and morality. I also enjoyed the ongoing theme of narcissism embedded throughout, regular people driven by desirability, acclamation and assets, provoked to the brink of insanity. I enjoyed Obsolete, it was my kind of horror, somewhat sci-fi with elements of social pressure and the phenomenon of groupthink. I just want to state that the writing was fine. But if you’re a reader who likes horror that’s atmospheric, scary, or character driven steer clear of Haunted.ģ.5. If you love pretentious gross out horror with no point then this could honestly interest you. I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from reading this book. Also, all the characters are the worst human beings you’ll ever read about which is probably the point, but as a character driven reader this was pure hell for me. This style, while creative, was a slog to get through and just so disjointed and confusing. The story is set up with 3 confusing layers, the actual narrative of these “writers” being locked in a theater and self sabotaging everything every chance they get, a shitty poem about each unlikeable character, and some inane short story that really has no point other than to be shocking. Unless you’re brand of horror is gross out horror than I guess this could work for you, but to me it was just a pointless excuse to be over the top disgusting for no reason. It is not anything that I enjoy, there is no horror here.
Haunted has been suggested to me so many times and was on so many horror lists I finally said ok why not? I should not have done that. I read Fight Club and thought it was ok but overall it was just too long and too pretentious. I’ve never really been a fan of Palahniuk’s books or his writing.
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