Because of the stress of Carl's life, the deadly rhyme becomes unusually powerful, allowing him to kill by only thinking the poem. As Carl learns, the rhyme has the power to kill anyone to whom it is spoken. In every case, the book was open to a page that contained the culling song. During his investigations into other SIDS cases, he finds that a copy of the book was at the scene of each death. Carl discovers that his wife and child had died immediately after he read them a "culling song", or African chant, from the book Poems and Rhymes Around the World. Newspaper reporter Carl Streator has been assigned to write articles on a series of cases of sudden infant death syndrome, from which his own child had died. It won the 2003 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2002. Lullaby is a horror- satire novel by American author Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2002.
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