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Book cover of Haunted
HauntedChuck Palahniuk

Characters in Haunted

4 characters, main characters first.

Antagonists

  • Whittier

    The retreat's organizer, who lures the writers into isolation and later fakes his own death to observe how far they'll go.

Supporting characters

  • Tess Clark

    Whittier's assistant and a former pornographic actress, caught between the writers and the man who orchestrated their confinement.

  • Saint Gut-Free

    One of the writers-in-retreat; his contributed story, "Guts," is the book's most notorious set piece.

  • Comrade Snarky

    One of the writers-in-retreat, introduced waiting for the bus to the abandoned theater in an army-surplus jacket.