Staff Pick
Outrageous and disturbing, Bait is everything we’ve come to love about Palahniuk, with a bonus: readers get a chance to collaborate in the creativity. This new short story collection combines Palahniuk’s off-color storytelling with colorable pages. Recommended By Michal D., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
New York Times bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk presents Bait: Off-Color Stories for You to Color, his first ever coloring book for adults. Bait is both the coloring book debut and the second short story collection for Palahniuk, author of Lullaby and Fight Club.
Palahniuk invites readers to collaborate on this unprecedented hardcover edition: "Maybe between your colors, the artists’ designs, and my stories we can create something that endures. Something worth keeping. Let’s create a well-bound book that can sit on any shelf and be available for a new generation to discover and enjoy."
* Contains eight bizarre tales, illustrated in detailed black and white by Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer), Lee Bermejo (The Suiciders), Duncan Fegredo (Hellboy), and more.
* Chuck Palahniuk’s first ever coloring book for adults.
About the Author
Chuck Palahniuk's ten previous novels are the bestselling Fight Club, which was made into a film by David Fincher; Survivor; Invisible Monsters; Choke, which was made into a film by director Clark Gregg; Lullaby, which is currently in development for film; Diary; Haunted; Rant; Snuff; and Pygmy. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees, a nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Chuck's Make Something Up, a collection of short stories and one novella, was released in 2015, and Fight Club 2 the follow up to the enormously successful Fight Club, debuts June 2016 from Dark Horse Comics.