Anyone Can Die: Lady Baglady, Duke of Vandals, Comrade Snarky, Miss America, The Matchmaker, Missing Link, Mrs.Ancient Artifact/ Artifact of Doom: The Nightmare Box, possibly.

Just like The Duke of Vandals, who is perpetually chewing nicotine gum and, as an artist, would have a lot of reason to be hanging around an art gallery.

For example, in 'The Nightmare Box' one of the people in the art gallery is described as having a ponytail and chewing gum.

Already Met Everyone / Forgotten First Meeting: A few times, it seems like characters from one story will show up in another.

'All those cures and remedies that claim to be 100-percent natural ingredients, therefore 100-percent safe, Angelique laughs.

All-Natural Snake Oil: Discussed in 'Foot Work.'.

Also, at least a few of them used the CPR dummy's mouth as a masturbation aid.

All Men Are Perverts: In Director Denial's story, all male social workers at her office used the child sex dolls.

It's never clarified if it's really happening in-universe or it's just a story he made up. Whittier's second story, 'Obsolete', with two teenagers literally named Adam and Eve escaping a world-wide mass suicide.

Accidental Suicide: In the short story 'Guts' it mentions in passing that some public health officials believe that the recent spike in teen suicides was in part caused by auto-erotic asphyxiation gone awry.

Onstage, instead of a spotlight, a trope. Palahniuk did readings of it during his worldwide book tour for diary. The novel's first chapter, ' Guts ', was published in Playboy magazine well before the book came out proper presumably as a warning. It should also be noted that, whilst some of the tales seem downright impossible, quite a few are very closely based on real events. While it never becomes clear how much of their backstories are true or made up, expect most of them to have Body Horror, Nausea Fuel, Nightmare Fuel and/or Rape as Drama. What results is a deconstruction of reality TV shows, and a whole lot of squick. Whittier, and begin to destroy themselves (both mentally and physically) between telling highly dramatized versions of their own life stories. Given the ultimatum that leaving is not an option until the three months are up, the writers quickly learn that there's no escape and no help coming under this knowledge, they instead concoct the ruse that they're all martyrs and victims trapped by Mr. Acting on assumption necessities of toothpaste and toilet roll will be available, each writer brings a suitcase each of personal items. Seventeen unusual people, all of whom happen to be writers, sign up to attend a three-month writer's workshop courtesy of the mysterious Mr. Haunted is a unique collection of short stories by Chuck Palahniuk.

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