Lost Boy Lost Girl: A Novel

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

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WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD

lost boy lost girl may be the best book of [Peter Straubs] 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 kidnappingStraubs masterful tale of ultrahorror is all that and a bag of chips!
Entertainment Weekly (The Must List)

[A] wonderful webwork of a book . . . Its funny, and heartwarming, and genuinely scary.
NEIL GAIMAN

GENUINELY CREEPY.
The New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Peter Straub is theNew York Timesbestselling author of more than a dozen novels.In the Night Roomandlost boy, lost girlwere winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as was his collection5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volumeAmerican Fantastic Talesfrom the Library of America. He lives in Brooklyn.