Carl now must not only deal with the dangers of the rhyme, but with the risk of it falling into the hands of Oyster, who may want to use it for sinister purposes. They are joined by Helen's hippie assistant, Mona "Mulberry" Sabbat, and Mona's boyfriend, a nihilistic environmentalist named Oyster. The two of them decide to go on a road trip across the country to find all remaining copies of the book and destroy the page containing the rhyme. While she is unable to help him stop using the rhyme, she is willing to help him stop anyone else from being able to use it again. Carl unintentionally memorizes the rhyme and semi-voluntarily becomes a serial killer who makes people die over minor annoyances.Ĭarl turns to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who has also found the rhyme in the same book and knows of its destructive power. 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 it is spoken to.
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 a book entitled 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.
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