Basada en una novela de Chuck Palahniuk (El club de la lucha), "Asfixia" narra la historia de Victor (Sam Rockwell) que para sufragar el caro tratamiento médico en un hospital privado de su madre (Anjelica Huston), se dedica a timar a la gente. Su trabajo diario es representar el papel de un miserable campesino del siglo XVIII en un parque temático de carácter histórico, mientras está tratando de recuperarse de su adicción al sexo. Pero cuando su cada vez más débil madre insinúa poder revelar la identidad secreta de su perdido padre, Victor recobra la esperanza de encontrar finalmente las respuestas que ha estado buscando. Victor hace amistad con la joven doctora de su madre (Kelly McDonald), quien le lleva a creer que sus orígenes quizás puedan ser mucho más sorprendentemente divinos de lo que jamás pudo nunca haber imaginado. Así, ¿es todavía Victor Mancini el perdedor sin honor que siempre ha creído que iba a ser durante el resto de su vida o es posible que sea una especie de loco salvador?

Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker

Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk’s bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller.The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison’s journey across the unspeakable (and really gross) landscape of the afterlife to confront the Devil himself. But her story isn’t over yet. 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 Purgatory—or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she’s invisible to everyone who’s still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop’s fetid men’s room, in which . . . well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For everyone. Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you

Error humano es la tercera novela de Chuck Palahniuk, es principalmente una serie de reflexiones, entrevistas y anécdotas muchas de ellas originadas por el efecto de la película de “El club de la Lucha ”. Por un lado tenemos una parte en la que Palahniuk reflexiona sobre las necesidades de socialización que tenemos los humanos, ya sea con festivales de sexo o peleas de cosechadoras, en otra nos muestra de qué forma surgen las historias de sus libros, cómo se ha inspirado…y hay menos ficción de la que uno piensa. Luego tenemos entrevistas a algunas celebridades, quizá la más interesante la que le hace a Marilyn Manson, interesante el punto de ser una entrevista en la que Manson se echa a él mismo las cartas del tarot y nos habla de su infancia, la repercusión de su música… En general la búsqueda de experiencias es el objetivo de Palahniuk como escritor, va absorviendo pequeños fragmentos, pequeñas anécdotas y los va colocando y dando forma. El estilo es el típico de Palahniuk, repetitivo, aunque en este libro hay altibajos (propio de un recopilatorio) que hace que lo vea un libro mucho más para fans que para alguien que quiera profundizar en el universo de Palahniuk

Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator's condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world's tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk's utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. Movie rights to Fox 2000

Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the melding of fact and fiction, and decipher the book's playful page design. She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look

"I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear." Beleaguered reporter Carl Streator is stuck writing about SIDS and grieving for his dead wife and child; he copes by building perfect model homes and smashing them with a bare foot. But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl's victims. Salvation of a sort comes in the form of Helen Hoover Boyle, a witch making a tidy living as a real estate broker selling-and quickly reselling-haunted houses. She, too, knows the culling song and finances her diamond addiction by freelancing as a telepathic assassin. Carl and Helen hit the road with Helen's Wiccan assistant, Mona, and her blackmailing boyfriend, Oyster, on a search-and-destroy mission for all outstanding copies of the culling song, as well as an all-powerful master tome of spells, a grimoire. Hilarious satire, both supernatural and scatological, ensues, the subtext of which seems to be Palahniuk's conviction that information has become a weapon ("Imagine a plague you catch through your ears"), and the bizarre love affair between Helen and Carl offers the lone linear thread in a field of narrative flak bursts. But the chief significance of this novel is Palahniuk's decision to commit himself to a genre, and this horror tale of both magic and mundane modernity plants him firmly in a category where previously he existed as a genre of one

A Carl Streator, periodista de mediana edad, le han encargado que escriba una serie de artículos sobre la muerte súbita infantil, un tema que le resulta familiar pues él mismo perdió a su hijo en circunstancias extrañas. En el transcurso de la investigación descubre que en todas las casas donde ha muerto un bebé (o un niño, o un adulto) hay un ejemplar del mismo libro: una antología de poemas africanos que contiene una nana letal. Esta canción mata a aquel que la escucha; de hecho, su poder es tal que ni siquiera es necesario recitarla, con tan solo memorizarla y odiar a alguien intensamente, cae fulminado. Helen Hoover Boyle, agente inmobiliaria especializada en vender casas encantadas, también tenía un hijo que murió en circunstancias similares al de Streator. El periodista y la agente inmobiliaria emprenderán, acompañados por la secretaria de Helen, Mona, aficionada al esoterismo, y el novio de esta, Oyster, un ecologista ultrarradical, un viaje por carretera con el fin de destruir todos los ejemplares del libro y encontrar el grimorio original del que procede el hechizo. Con Nana damos la bienvenida a una nueva familia nuclear, un grupo disfuncional hasta extremos arrebantes. Y a una hilarante alegoría sobre la información y el poder

Bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk channels both Stephen King and John Cheever in this sinister and hilarious short story, straight from the passive-aggressive front lines of modern marriage, where a wife’s frustration, along with the family cat, become weapons of mass destruction

Pigmeo forma parte de un grupo de terroristas adolescentes enviados a Estados Unidos para cometer un atentado masivo. Camuflado como estudiante de intercambio, el agente 67 deberá convivir con la típica familia americana mientras planifica el ataque. Para conseguir su objetivo cuenta con unos conocimientos avanzados de química y el dominio de las artes marciales. Está entrenado para detonar un artefacto mortífero en el momento preciso, si consigue, eso sí, controlar sus inoportunas erecciones… En esta sátira de doble filo sobre la xenofobia, Chuck Palahniuk retrata el estilo de vida del medio oeste americano y nos cuenta una historia de amor y redención

Palahniuk's 10th novel (after Snuff) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project. Narrated by skinny 13-year-old Pgymy, the propulsive plot deconstructs American fixtures, among them church (religion propaganda distribution outlet), spelling bees (forced battle to list English alphabet letters) and TV news reporters (Horde scavenger feast at overflowing anus of world history), before moving on to a Columbine-like shooting spree by a closeted kid who has fallen in love with the teenage terrorist who raped him in a shopping mall bathroom. Decoding Palahniuk's characteristically scathing observations is a challenge, as Pygmy's narrative voice is unbound by rules of grammar or structure (a typical sentence: Host father mount altar so stance beside bin empty of water), but perseverance is its own perverse reward in this singular, comic accomplishment

Author's Note: This book is written in the style of an oral history, a form which requires interviewing a wide variety of witnesses and compiling their testimony. Anytime multiple sources are questioned about a shared experience, it's inevitable for them occasionally to contradict each other. For additional biographies written in this style, please see Capote by George Plimpton, Edie by Jean Stein, and Lexicon Devil by Brendan Mullen

Seiscientos hombres, una reina del porno y un récord mundial que hará historia. Cassie Wright, legendaria actriz porno, decide culminar su carrera batiendo el récord mundial de sexo en grupo al estar con seiscientos hombres y filmarlo. Todos desconocen que la actriz tiene la intención de morir durante la grabación y así desanimar a aquellas que quieran batir su marca. Esta novela incendiaria se basa en todo lo que dicen, piensan y hacen los señores 72, 137 y 600, que esperan su turno en una habitación

"Full of wonderful moments…Palahniuk's voice is so distinctive and intimate-he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend." — Los Angeles Times "Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." — The Oregonian “One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time.” —The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “In Chuck Palahniuk’s world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back.” —The New Orleans Times-Picayune “Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining.” —The Onion "Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer." — The New York Times “Rarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . This is a pretty great book.” —The Seattle Times "The book's lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk's secrets, the raw material for much of his fiction. . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world." — Black Book

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our Thelma Ritter-ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine 'Miss Kathie' Kenton – veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman-penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans – and for posterity. Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It's wild, it's wicked, it's bold-faced – it's vintage Chuck