Haunted

Inhale.
Take in as much air as you can.
This story should last about as long as you can hold your breath, and then just a little bit longer.

This is not another horror novel. It is deeper, much deeper, to a point where it is unbelievable. But believable enough when you read it.
Seventeen individuals find an advertisement that only says “Writer's Retreat: Abandon your life for three months,” and set off. They are locked up in a theatre, away from their daily lives, to write the perfect story, their masterpieces. This novel, however, tells us twenty-three more stories of those writers – a skinny man, a widow, an actress, a psychic, and many more - their lives, their decisions, their ideas.
But things change. They realize that the best story would be the reality they're living – the more they suffer, the better the story becomes. When they get out, they'll emerge survivors of ordeals. Heroes.
Narrated in first person plural by a narrator that isn't even a character in the book, Chuck Palahniuk does not disappoint. The author of Fight Club and Diary gives you a book skillfully tied up by short introductory poems and stories, consecutively telling the real story that will leave you wanting to know more, but you would dare not.

You want to be disturbed? Here is a book that is liable for the fainting of sixty individuals while one of the short stories was read out. You will find tales that you can relate to, quotations that describe your emotions…but then, you would find yourself not wanting that to be true.
This book is what everyone would ask you not to read; not because this book is bad, but maybe because the name really does live up to its expectations. But isn't that how you ensure someone reads it? By telling them not to?