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You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed,

or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read. From from the kr w Santa Monica I'm Michael

silverblatt and this is bookworm today my guest is Brett Easton Ellis he's the

author most recently of the novel Lunar Park the author as well of less than zero

the rules of attraction the informersers, and glamorama.

Now, in this new novel, he's combined a horror novel with, well, I would say that the

narrator, who is Brett Estadelaus, is haunted by himself, and that the narrator who is Brett East and Ellis is haunted by himself and that the book

is about the haunted house within the haunted house, the haunted house of consciousness within

the haunted house of a horror movie. And the book is about the vibrations that occur when

one is put in the context of the other.

It's almost as if an actual person is C.G.I. into a haunted house and what happens around

him becomes the reflection of his internal set of preoccupations.

Tell me about how it came to be written.

Well, in 1989, after I'd finished American Psycho, I had two ideas for novels that were

fluttering around.

One was to write a book that was an homage to the comic books that I loved as a kid,

specifically the EC comic books like Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror,

and as well as the more modern Warren comics,

which were eerie and creepy and vampirilla. Those were the three main ones that I remembered a lot.

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