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Chuck Palahniuk
A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road accident and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will…
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And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction…
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From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we…
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From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers…
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Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, and a malicious recording that…
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Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother’s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who…
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Palahniuk’s mind-bending new novel takes the form of an oral history of Buster Rant Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of the day.
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From the master of literary mayhem and provocation and bestselling author of Fight Club comes this full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone…
Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric…
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"From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we…
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded…
Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great…
Ira Levin
The genre-defining classic that ushered in the era of modern horror
One of the best-selling books of all time, Rosemary's Baby is a foundational work of suspense and psychological horror…
Douglas Keesey
A comprehensive introduction to the fictions of the Fight Club author, who is both loved and loathed
Ken Kesey
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the…
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Whether discussing his father’s murder or encounters with cult figures like Marilyn Manson, each vignette in Palahniuk’s first collection of nonfiction offers a unique glimpse into the life of a…
Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and…
Una satira macabra y deforme de Estados Unidos.
Heredera de El club de la lucha, El Dia del Ajuste es una de las novelas mas ingeniosamente jodidas, atractivas y originales…
En esta descarada satira social sobre el consumo de masas, Chuck Palahniuk vuelve a desafiar los limites de lo extremo, explorando las apocalipticas posibilidades del marketing para el placer femenino…
Comprises of the pieces that aim to prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. This work contains essays or vignettes that offer a facet of…
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‘Every word he’s written about me is a lie including and and the …’ For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine ‘Miss Kathie’ Kenton, a…
After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory - or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail…
Features a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, and a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor ‘accident’ leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she…
Diary takes the form of a ‘coma diary’ kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. But then, as if possessed…
Twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. In ‘Knock, Knock’, a son hopes to tell one last off-colour joke to his…
El club de la lucha, una de las novelas contemporaneas mas originales y provocadoras, que ya se ha convertido en un clasico underground. La primera regla del club de la…
Fight Club established Palahniuk as a brilliant satirist of deranged times. Victor Mancini, the protagonist of his new novel Choke, needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who…
From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.
The author of Fight Club takes us beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.
The bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his 21st-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at mankind’s quest for some sort of…
Made up of 23 of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales readers will ever encounter, Haunted is Palahniuk at his finest–which means his most extreme and his most provocative.
Invited by notorious playboy C. Linus Maxwell to a Paris hotel, Manhattan legal associate Penny Harrigan discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of sex toys…
A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The…
Stories you’ll never forget–just try–from literature’s favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published…
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club comes a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the…
Chuck Palahniuk’s startling and outrageous debut novel, basis of the hit movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
For the first time in hardcover, an expanded, radically refashioned director’s cut of a favorite Chuck Palahniuk novel.
A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride. -Seattle Times
Brilliantly satiric and savagely funny, Survivor is a wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief. -San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times Bestseller An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval….Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift. -David Takami, Seattle Times
The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the…
For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. Madison has been in Satan’s sights from the very beginning…
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane’s black box…
Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of…
Thirteen year old Madison has problems: she’s overweight, ignored by her movie star parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She’s also dead. But not just dead. Madison is…
