Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever. They are told by the people who have all answered an ad headlined ‘Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months’. They 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. But ‘here’ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theatre where they are utterly isolated from the outside world – and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell – and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight.

恰克·帕拉尼克，1962 年出生于美国，是当代最负盛名的“邪典小说家”，在全世界范围内拥有大量忠实的粉丝和拥趸。

他毕业于俄勒冈大学新闻学院，三十多岁时开始写作。他的第一部作品《失眠：如果你住在这里，你就已经到家了》始终没有完成，第二部小说《隐形怪物》被出版社退稿。第三 部小说《搏击俱乐部》被大卫·芬奇改编成电影之后，他得到了来自全世界的关注和认可。之后他陆续出版了《窒息》《摇篮曲》《日记》《逃亡者与难民》等作品，这些作品混合了讽刺、戏剧、恐怖、真实与美丽等元素，是一种独特的超现实主义黑色幽默。

《人物周刊》说 “他有一种独特的天赋”，《新闻周刊》说“他是长期以来最新鲜、最有趣的作家之一”，还有媒体说“他综合了海明威的阳刚与古罗马讽刺诗人尤文纳尔的嘲讽”，并预言他会跻身文学巨匠之列。总之，他的“独创性”令他脱颖而出。

恰克·帕拉尼克作品年表：

虚构类：

《搏击俱乐部》 Fight Club (1996)

《残存者》 Survivor (1999)

《隐形怪物》 Invisible Monsters (1999)

《窒息》 Choke (2001)

《摇篮曲》 Lullaby (2002)

《日记》 Diary (2003)

《肠子》 Haunted (2005)

《咆哮》 Rant (2007)

《鼻烟》 Snuff (2008)

《侏儒》 Pygmy (2009)

《全面告知》 Tell-All (2010)

非虚构类：

《逃亡者与难民》

Fugitives and Refugees:A Walk in Portland,Oregon (2003)

《比虚构更离奇：真实的故事》

Stranger Than Fiction:True Stories (2004)