Slumming

I will be cudgelled for this, but I must, alas, admit that I am currently reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code--following a gruesome piece, or, rather, cadaver of modern satire called Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.

Here is an excerpt of one of the more head-tilting, quirky stories typical of Palahniuk's bewildering, and equally disturbed, modern Cantebury Tales from Haunted: here.