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This 5 page paper discusses the connections between “Fight Club” and “Haunted” by Chuck Palahniuk. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in which the two works are connected. Discussion Two of the most commonly heard words with respect to Palahniuks work are "disgusting" or "gross," and indeed they are. The most
famous story in the Haunted collection is an offering entitled "Guts," in which a teenage boy whos masturbating in the family pool has his large intestine sucked down the drain
by the pump, has to bite it off, and ends up having a major bowel resection (Palahniuk). Stated like that, it has a grotesque sort of humor about it, but
reading it is quite different. Palahniuk describes the boys intestine in detail: the way the slippery tissue looks, the veins, the food inside it, which in some places is still
recognizable as food and in others has already been transformed into fecal material, and so on (Palahniuk). Critic Tom Shone tells us that when one of the stories from
Haunted was serialized, the cover of the magazine called it "the most gruesome short story ever published" (Shone). This, he says, tells a potential reader everything they need to know
about Palahniuks appeal (Shone). He goes on: "Opinion is still divided as to whether his Oeuvre amounts to a tenacious attempt at reinventing the Gothic tradition for the 21st century,
or a sustained, careerlong attempt to put you off your lunch" (Shone). The framing device for Haunted seems to have been modeled on the story of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley
and others telling ghost stories in the Villa Diodati (Shone). The thunderstorm outside must have spurred the groups creativity, because out of it came Frankenstein and The Vampyre (Shone). In
Palahniuks book, there is a similar framing device: seventeen writers "answer an advertisement for a writers retreat and hole up in a cavernous theater to write their masterpieces" (Shone). Shone
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