Chuck Palahniuk is already working on "Fight Club 3", which will also be in comic form. He also confirmed that he is working on a series of original short stories for comics which will appear as one-shots before eventually being collected into a single book. A revised version of "Invisible Monsters", as well as his fourth novel, "Survivor", were published in 1999. A few years later Palahniuk managed to make his first "New York Times" bestseller, the novel "Choke", which later was made into a movie. The year 1999 brought a series of great personal tragedies to Palahniuk's life. At that time,
Chuck Palahniuk his father, Fred Palahniuk, had started dating a woman named Donna Fontaine, whom he had met through a personal ad under the title "Kismet". Her former boyfriend, Dale Shackelford, had previously been imprisoned for sexual abuse, and had vowed to kill Fontaine as soon as he was released from prison. Palahniuk believes that, using a personal ad, Fontaine was looking for "the biggest man she could find" to protect her from Shackelford, and Palahniuk's father qualified. After his release, Shackelford followed Fontaine and the senior Palahniuk to Fontaine's home in Kendrick, Idaho after they had gone out for a date.