Lunar Park is more clearly a horror novel, I think, than anything you've written before. There are numerous nods to Stephen King. He was probably my first big influence because when he was publishing his initial novels in 1973, 74, 75,. Shah: "He had the ability to change the face of modern horror by setting it in a recognizable world"
Los Angeles, 1981. A group of beautiful, rich, high school students are playing adult in their absentee parents' empty mansions, fueled by lust and prescription drugs, and filled with fear and disaffection. This is the world of The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis’ first novel in 13 years, part auto-fiction, part horror. The provocative and polarising author joins Alex Preston, award-winning author and journalist, to speak about the emptiness of adolescence, the lawlessness of the 80s, and how it feels to look back at it all aged 56 in 2023.
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