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Chuck Palahniuk
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…
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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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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…
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…
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…
Rant is an anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase…
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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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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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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…
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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…
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…
In a series of electronic dispatches from the Great Beyond, Doomed describes the ultimate showdown between Good and Evil. After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in…
A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride. -Seattle Times
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…
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and…
The author of Fight Club takes us beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.
Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something truly…
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…
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.
Palahniuk ( Fight Club ) depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of Pygmy, a thoroughly indoctrinated little killer who hates America with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire.
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…
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…
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.
From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.
Brilliantly satiric and savagely funny, Survivor is a wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief. -San Francisco Chronicle
The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.
A harrowing, perverse, laugh-aloud funny rocket ride of catastrophes…Gutsy, terse and cunning, Invisible Monsters may emerge as Palahniuk’s strongest book. -Greg Berkman, Seattle Times
New York Times Bestseller An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval….Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift. -David Takami, Seattle Times
People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative…
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…
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…
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…
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…
