This is a story about how Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, scrambled my brain. It was one of the weirdest experiences I’ve ever had. So I was working at RealNetworks around 2003 or so, and we had authors come to read to us once a month. Palahniuk had a full house. I sat near the back. He started reading from his upcoming book of short stories. After a few pages a dread washed over me because I understood what the story was about. The whole vibe in the room was just wrong. Bad. Abort.🧵

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42 分鐘內	Food Sack food_sack	Is this the story about the pool?
一小時內	Travis Dillon travis_dillon94	Mayne, I'm desensitized, but I bought Haunted specifically because of am article like this when I was 15. It was kinda gross, sure, but I felt underwhelmed.
8 小時內	Brandon J. brandoj52	This book is so fkn good. All the short stories aren’t necessarily weaved together, but they exist together in a pretty creative way. GUTS is far and away the gnarliest story in the book, and thank god you get it out of the way early. I too nearly passed out while reading it. But this story is such a great setup for an amazing line at the end of the book.
9 小時內	Bethany Kent glitterandgerms	I saw him do a book reading on this same book tour and several people walked out during that story. He warned everyone in advance but none of us were prepared for it.
10 小時內	Reuben Hunter reubenhcomic	The story eventually made it in to his book Haunted (it's horrific and brilliant, would not recommend!) At the end there's a chapter about how he would read this short story on book tours, and how people would regularly faint at exactly the same spot. At least warn people to sit down!
15 小時內	Diana Covey Keating twisted_red_head	I was sitting by a pool in Las Vegas when I read that story. Amazed I didn’t pass out. It still haunts me.