Lost Boy Lost Girl

Peter Straub

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Ballantine
15 October 2004

Horror & ghost stories; Fantasy; Contemporary Horror

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son- fifteen-year-old

Mark Underhill-vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown

of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon

learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly

before his mother's suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where

he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house

whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror

story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history,

Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret- a ghostly lost girl who may have

coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

By: Peter Straub
Imprint: Ballantine
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 172mm, Width: 105mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9780449149911
ISBN 10: 0449149919
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 October 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Lost Boy Lost Girl

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD lost boy lost girl may be the best book of [Peter Straub's] career. -STEPHEN KING EERIE, UNNERVING, AND CONCISE . . .DARK AND SURPRISINGLY MOVING. -The Miami Herald A lost boy and a lost girl, a serial killer and a haunted house, a suicide and a kidnapping-Straub's masterful tale of ultrahorror is all that and a bag of chips! -Entertainment Weekly (The Must List) [A] wonderful webwork of a book . . . It's funny, and heartwarming, and genuinely scary. -NEIL GAIMAN GENUINELY CREEPY. -The New York Times Book Review