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Original Title:	Lost Boy Lost Girl
ISBN:	0449149919 (ISBN13: 9780449149911)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Timothy Underhill
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2003)

Lost Boy Lost Girl

Peter Straub

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 4687 Users | 391 Reviews

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Title	:	Lost Boy Lost Girl
Author	:	Peter Straub
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	September 28th 2004 by Ballantine Books (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller

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Nancy Underhill commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son -- fifteen-year-old Mark -- vanishes. The boy's 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 Nancy'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 basement to attic with the echoes of a long hidden true-life horror story, and Tim 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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Even at the very beginning of my read of this short novel, I was on the road to a five-star review. In the middle, I was just as enthralled. Oh, the places this could go! A little further, and things began to unravel, and by the time I finished the last sentence, we had lost a couple of stars.First a quick detailing of the premise, no spoilers yet. Lost Boy Lost Girl is about many things. A mother that commits suicide, her husband who is a jackass, her son whose curiosity about the house next

Not an altogether horrible horror novel. It's not, bless us all, the diarrheal trainwreck that was "Ghost Story," one of P. Straub's most strikingly overvalued works. No, this one has that Michael Myers-like phobia of the suburbs, of the persons lurking in the house next door. And if the biggest implausibility of a fifteen year old twink having sex with a salacious ghost girl doesn't strike you as too absurd, then the read is worthwhile. But if like me you had expected to come face-to-face with

Stephen King consistently recommends Peter Straub as one of the great horror writers of our time, so I've been meaning to sit down with one of his books for awhile. When King's cover blurb proclaimed "May be the best book of his career!" I figured Lost Boy Lost Girl was a good place to start. Unfortunately, I was completely underwhelmed.It doesn't help that the premise is a muddled one: Famous writer Tim Underhill is called upon to help his brother investigate the disappearance of his nephew

Peter Straub once again dazzles with this horror novel. Indeed, Straub has returned to the style that made him famous.Anyway, this is a very complex literary novel, the type that begs for a second reading. Although this might throw some readers off, it is the literary complexity that draws me to Straub. The protagonist, Tim Underhill, weve met before. If youre a fan, then youve also encountered Tom Pasmore, and the city of Millhaven; in lost boy lost girl we meet them all again.The thing I find

Peter Straub has a way with words. Some people dont like that. Too wordy, they say. Well, I dont share that sentiment. I could immerse myself in beautiful prose all day long, thank you very much.Now.lost boy lost girlA review.Yes I am here, yes I was real. You denied me.This is one of the finest examples of literary horror I have ever read. I would like to emphasize that Peter Straub does.not.spoonfeed.his.readers. The literary bit is just as important here as the horror bit so an appreciation

This book was electric.A ghost story, but not quite a ghost story. Mysterious, but not quite a mystery. This is a tough book to pigeonhole under a single genre title and, in truth, I found it more literary fiction than anything. (Though of course Straub is known as a horror author). This book accomplished what so few do in the genre however, and was a carefully crafted rubix cube puzzle that continued to unlock a square at a time in a delightfully fulfilling way. The characters were fully

For some reason I avoided Peter Straub like the plague until one day in my twenties whilst stuck in Penn Station without a book I happened upon a copy of "Lost Boy Lost Girl" and out of desperation bought it. I have never looked back and as soon as I finished it I ran out and read everything else the man has written in something like a month."Lost Boy Lost Girl" is a ghost story but its also a story about surviving unspeakable loss. Successful novelist Tim Underhill (a featured player in several