American Psycho

:This article is about the book and film. For the album by The Misfits, see American Psycho (album).

Trivia

• Mrs. Wolfe, the realtor who is selling Paul Owen's apartment, is thought to be a reference to Tom Wolfe, and Pierce & Pierce, the firm which Bateman works for, is also the investment firm from Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities (as a side note, Vanities is the name of one of the many restaurants in the novel).
• There is a reference at one point in the book to someone named "McCoy," this could possibly be Sherman McCoy, the protagonist of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
• Real-life serial killer Paul Bernardo was a huge fan of the novel.
• Paul Denton from The Rules of Attraction makes a small cameo in the book. He's with Paul Owen at Harry's and is described as looking at Patrick as though he recognizes him, even though they've never met.
• Patrick's younger brother Sean Bateman, from The Rules of Attraction, also makes an appearance in one chapter of the book. It is interesting to note that Sean, whom Patrick hates, gets him into the restaurant Dorsia for dinner, something that Patrick tries to do and fails on his own numerous times in the book.
• After the success of the movie adaptation, a nightclub opened in Manhattan named "Dorsia". It was a popular hotspot for almost a year.