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* 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.
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* 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.]]
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!!Contains the following tropes:
* AdultFear: The children disappearing most notably, but there are others.
* AsHimself: The book is narrated in first person by Bret Easton Ellis, the successful writer of ''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.
* BodyHorror: The eventual fate of [[spoiler: the dog.]] [[NightmareFuel Good! God!]]
* [[ShowWithinAShow Book Within A Book]]: The book that Bret is writing, entitled ''[[RefugeInVulgarity Teenage Pussy]]''.
* BiTheWay: This is a BretEastonEllis novel...
* CrapSaccharineWorld: The world of ''Lunar Park'' is much less of a downer than the rest of Ellis' 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 PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and a ''wave'' of missing child cases.
* DownerEnding: Still lighter than Lovecraft.
* ItGotWorse: Terrorist attacks, KeanuReeves, nationwide disappearances of pre-teen boys, a haunted house, and a local serial killer patterning his crimes on ''AmericanPsycho''. These things are merely a pretext to whats to come.
* IHaveManyNames: "Clayton"...
* MindScrew: Around the time Bret [[spoiler: starts discussing things with and getting information from the writer]] you might get a bit confused.
* PostModernism
* 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.
* SdrawkcabName: [[spoiler: Terby. Y Bret. Why Bret?]]
* SitcomArchNemesis: In the first chapter, KeanuReeves.
* TitleDrop: The last 2 words of the novel.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Suicide bombings at Wal-Marts are commonplace.
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!!Contains the following tropes:
* AdultFear: The children disappearing most notably, but there are others.
* AsHimself: The book is narrated in first person by Bret Easton Ellis, the successful writer of ''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.
* BodyHorror: The eventual fate of [[spoiler: the dog.]] [[NightmareFuel Good! God!]]
* [[ShowWithinAShow Book Within A Book]]: The book that Bret is writing, entitled ''[[RefugeInVulgarity Teenage Pussy]]''.
* BiTheWay: This is a BretEastonEllis novel...
* CrapSaccharineWorld: The world of ''Lunar Park'' is much less of a downer than the rest of Ellis' 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 PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad and a ''wave'' of missing child cases.
* DownerEnding: Still lighter than Lovecraft.
* ItGotWorse: Terrorist attacks, KeanuReeves, nationwide disappearances of pre-teen boys, a haunted house, and a local serial killer patterning his crimes on ''AmericanPsycho''. These things are merely a pretext to whats to come.
* IHaveManyNames: "Clayton"...
* MindScrew: Around the time Bret [[spoiler: starts discussing things with and getting information from the writer]] you might get a bit confused.
* PostModernism
* 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.
* SdrawkcabName: [[spoiler: Terby. Y Bret. Why Bret?]]
* SitcomArchNemesis: In the first chapter, KeanuReeves.
* TitleDrop: The last 2 words of the novel.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Suicide bombings at Wal-Marts are commonplace.
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