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A semi-autobiographical horror novel, detailing Creator/BretEastonEllis's rise to fame and the fictional story of his second-tier movie star wife and their experiences in a suburban house that may be haunted...

It's also a partial sequel to ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' and an homage to ''Literature/TheShining''.
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!!This book contains the following tropes:
* AsHimself: The book is narrated in first person by Bret Easton Ellis, the successful writer of ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' and other novels. At the beginning, it sounds autobiographical, but then completely descends to fiction.
* AbusiveParents: Bret's father certainly was one, and he fears going down a similar path.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Bernard Erlanger]] is a LoonyFan of ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' who [[JackTheRipoff copycats the murders in the book]] and torments the author/protagonist Creator/BretEastonEllis.
* [[ShowWithinAShow Book Within A Book]]: The book that Bret is writing, entitled ''[[VulgarHumor Teenage Pussy]]''.
* CrapSaccharineWorld: The world of ''Lunar Park'' is much less of a downer than the rest of Ellis's works, but it still sucks. Aside from the implied police state that is going on in the rest of the country, the main setting of Lunar Park is an upscale StepfordSuburbia filled with PoliticalOvercorrectness and a ''wave'' of missing child cases.
* FromBadToWorse: Terrorist attacks, nationwide disappearances of pre-teen boys, a haunted house, a local serial killer patterning his crimes on ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] Creator/KeanuReeves. These things are merely a pretext to whats to come.
* {{Homage}}: ''Lunar Park'' is largely a Creator/StephenKing pastiche, especially ''Literature/TheShining''.
* JackTheRipoff: The BigBad of the novel is revealed to be [[spoiler: Bernard Erlanger]], a man who became so obsessed with ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' that he began to imitate Patrick Bateman's murders and terrorize Ellis himself over the phone, [[spoiler: while also posing as Detective Kimball and pretending to investigate his own crimes.]]
* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler: The CopycatKiller poses as several of Ellis's characters such as Clayton, Detective Kimball, and of course, Patrick Bateman...]]
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: [[spoiler: A detective, to be exact. The SerialKiller who takes after Patrick Bateman also poses as Detective Kimball and pretends to investigate his own crimes.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The final fate of [[spoiler:Patrick Bateman]] is to be trapped in a pier fire.
* LifeEmbellished: The book is a mock-memoir with clearly fictional elements and characters that have nothing to do with real Ellis's life.
* MindScrew: Around the time Bret [[spoiler: starts discussing things with and getting information from the writer]] you might get a bit confused.
* MisaimedFandom: [[invoked]] InUniverse, ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' was written as a vicious satire of the [=80s=] yuppie subculture, with SerialKiller Patrick Bateman as a VillainProtagonist and a HateSink who serves as the living distillation of everything wrong with yuppies. [[spoiler:Bernard Erlanger]], the out-of-universe BigBad, is a LoonyFan of the novel who thinks Bateman is a role model to be [[JackTheRipoff emulated]].
* RecklessGunUsage: Bret ends up brandishing his gun in his house when he sees [[spoiler: Patrick Bateman/Clayton inside.]] Later subverted as his wife took the bullets out, causing it be empty at a crucial moment.
* RecursiveCanon: Patrick Bateman exists and so does the novel ''Literature/AmericanPsycho''.
* SdrawkcabName: [[spoiler: Terby. Y Bret. Why Bret?]]
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The story is full of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' references.
* SitcomArchNemesis: In the first chapter, Creator/KeanuReeves.
* StepfordSuburbia: The backdrop for the story is a place like this, and Ellis goes into detail describing the tense, fear-ridden atmosphere and distrust of the post-9/11 America. And there's also a SerialKiller haunting the neighborhood.
* TitleDrop: The last 2 words of the novel.
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