Furby but also there was this bird-like doll that my older sister had and I wrote a short story about it when I was 7 or 8. She used to scare me with it, I'd go to my bedroom and get into bed and it'd be there, she'd hide it there just to scare me. Or I'd be walking up the stairs and she'd chase me with it. And I think that's what I was channelling and it fitted in to all the other things that I was haunted by.” The revelation that 'Terby' is in fact 'Y Bret' (Why, Bret?) spelled backwards is an homage to the "redrum" (murder spelled backwards) plot device in King's The Shining. The book carries an epigraph from Hamlet 1.v.98. This connects with the theme of haunting by a father as well as the names in the book (e.g. Elsinore, Osric, Fortinbras). Reception The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Novel category in 2004. Cultural impact In 2007, the English progressive rock band Porcupine Tree released Fear of a Blank Planet, which was influenced by Lunar Park. References External links Official website of Bret Easton Ellis Fan website for Jayne Dennis, archived in the Internet Archive. Collection of Lunar Park book reviews (via Internet Archive) 'When Writer Becomes Celebrity', review of Lunar Park in the Oxonian Review 2005 American novels Novels by Bret Easton Ellis American horror novels Roman à clef novels Metafictional novels Postmodern novels Alfred A. Knopf books Books with cover art by Chip Kidd