The synopsis on the dustjacket describes Haunted as a satire of reality television, but according to Palahniuk, the novel is actually about "the battle for credibility" that has resulted from the ease with which one can publish through the use of modern technology. Typical of Palahniuk's work, the dominant motifs in Haunted are sexual deviance, sexual identity, desperation, social distastefulness, disease, murder, death, and existentialism. Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative, is told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way. The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short stories, most preceded by a free verse poem. Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.
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