Writer Chuck Palahniuk is perhaps most-often recognized for Fight Club more than he is for his works of horror, but one in particular is. Movie adaptations of Chuck Palahniuk's works of horror are long overdue, especially the impressively horrifying stories in the 2005 novel Haunted. Jean Baudrillard’s concepts of simulation and hyperreality support the fabrication of trauma in the novel, whereas images of bodies changed by trauma are associated to the three phantasies that, according to Baudrillard, haunt the contemporary world: cancer, terrorism and transvestite. The Chuck Palahniuk Book That Would Be A Perfect Horror Movie. I analyse the representation and fabrication of trauma in Haunted through the manipulation of the body via bruising, (self-inflicted) mutilation, gender and age bending, cross-dressing and exacerbated sexualisation, among others. Without giving too much away about said loop. Much less body horror and moreso the psychohorror of being trapped in a loop. Unlike Haunted, Diary is more psychologically-centric. While confined, they spend part of their time inflicting pain and mutilation to themselves, aiming at the fabrication of new traumas, which they believe will increase the public’s interest in their works and lives. I grabbed Diary (and Lullaby) at my local library upon finishing and LOVING Haunted so this review is in the context of being the second Palahniuk book I’ve read.
The description of their interaction during confinement intertwines with the short stories they produce, and in both narrative levels, the writers invariably revisit memories of abuse, loss, social displacement and frustration.
Chuck Palahniuk’s 2005 novel Haunted presents a group of wannabe writers confined for a retreat.
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