Haunted, A Novel...

"In all, 73 people have fainted while I've read "Guts" (a short story from Haunted). Over the Internet, I now hear stoies of other people making their peers pass out by reading it aloud. So that number keeps growing.

For a nine-page story, some nights it takes thirty minutes to read. In the first half, you're pausing for so much laughter from your audience. In the second half, you're pausing as your audience is revived."

- Chuck Palahniuk, from the afterword in his novel, Haunted.