I have long considered Haunted to be the worst book I’ve ever read for one simple reason; I have never picked up another Chick Palahniuk book in almost twenty years. I picked up the book a huge fan of his, eager to read his latest novel, and by the time I closed the back cover I was done with him as an author. Every character spoke and acted as a homogeneous unit, the story is dark with zero payoff. Not a single character demonstrates any growth at all, there’s just a parade of moody static people doing awful things regardless of if it advances the plot at all.