Chuck Palahniuk's stories make people faint. Often in great numbers. Ambulances have been known to wait outside the venues at which he gives his readings and foyers have been filled with stretchers carrying victims of his gore-filled prose. By now, his fans know what kind of horror to expect when they turn up for his reading-cum-performances. Palahniuk has even hurled fake severed limbs and blow-up dolls at his wilting audience and kept an assiduous count of his "fainters".
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