Lunar Park

Lunar Park is a metafictional novel by the American writer Bret Easton Ellis, released by Knopf in 2005 and presented as a mock memoir in the past tense.

The narrator is a version of the author himself, the writer whose first novel made him internationally famous while he was still a student, and who then spent a decade adrift in a world of money, drugs and celebrity while dealing with the death of an abusive father. He is offered a chance at something better: a reunion with an actress he once loved and with the son he barely knows, and a house in the suburbs where a family might be assembled. Almost immediately the new life is threatened by a sequence of strange events and murders that seem to lead back to him and to the past he has been avoiding, and his attempt to protect what he has built becomes a struggle with his own history. The novel mixes memoir, fiction and horror, and it invites the reader to keep asking which parts are true.

Ellis writes about fame and its aftermath, and the book's supernatural machinery is used to examine the obligations a writer has to the people he has written about.