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Carl Streator, a widowed newspaper reporter, is investigating sudden infant death syndrome when he discovers that the anthology *Poems and Rhymes Around the World* contains an African chant capable of killing anyone who hears or even thinks the words. The song, dubbed the “culling song,” poisons the brain and turns Streator into an involuntary serial killer. He partners with Helen Hoover Boyle, a real‑estate broker who specializes in distressed and supposedly haunted houses and has lost her child to the same chant. Together with Helen’s earnest Wiccan assistant, Mona Sabbat, and her sardonic ecoterrorist boyfriend, Oyster, they embark on a cross‑country mission to remove all copies of the book from libraries before the deadly verbal infection can spread and wipe out humanity.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Chuck Palahniuk
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