J Horror?

For J horror I decided to read Lullaby. At first I didn’t really understand how this book related to the genre but after class I do kind of see why. So in J horror there is a sense of isolation. Its all about the characters in the story and for some reason you feel the loneliness around them.
That’s exactly how it is in Lullaby, with two characters in particular, Carl Streator a journalist who mainly covers stories on crib death and Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells haunted houses, and keeps reselling them because no one wants to live in them. Both of them lost their spouses and child, and are all alone in the world. They both are also very different from everyone else around them which also gives you that isolated feeling.
The story is very funny in a quite gruesome king of way. Mr. Streator finds out that all these crib deaths aren’t an accident at all, they are actually caused by a culling song that has gotten its way into a children’s poems book. The same song he killed his wife and child with and the same song Helen killed hers with. Yet, that doesn’t stop him from killing everyone that annoys him with the song. Yet he does it in a funny, lighthearted kind of way. I don’t even know how Palahniuk does it, but he writhes these very heavy yet light hearted novels. They just have a lot of content and really make you think about stuff. But, anyways Mr. Streator, Helen. Mona and her Boyfriend ( Mona being Helens secretary) go on a mission to destroy every page the culling song is on and then finds the big book that its in ( it has all these other spells in it.). Mr. Sreator wants to destroy this book and prevent it from getting into the wrong hands. And Helen wants to keep it for herself and do “good” with it. So throughout most of the story they both hate each other. But after a while, Mr. Streator gets used to having Mona and Helen around ( he really doesn’t like Mona’s boyfriend, I find him quite the ass myself.). He realizes he’s in love with her.
My favorite part, as with all Chuck Palahniuk’s books is the ending. Its always such a surprise, you really never know what will happen. But, of course Mona and her boyfriend find out about the book and want to steal it from Helen and Carl. Because of one of the spells in the book Helen takes on the body of a man, Mona’s boyfriend kills Helens body so she’s stuck as a man her entire life. Carl is still in love with her, and together they go after Mona and her boyfriend because they stole the book from her.
Mona and her boyfriend don’t really have any dangerous spells in the book because Helen destroyed the culling song. And Mona’s boyfriend gets know as the road kill Jesus,
who brings road kill back to life. And Mona becomes the flying virgin Mary in Mexico.
It’s a pretty hilarious ending.