Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Peter Straub
Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Peter Straub
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl

Author: Peter Straub

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/03/2012

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son—beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill—vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. 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 on Michigan Street 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.With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror.

About Peter Straub

Peter Straub is a New York Times bestselling author, most famous for his work in the horror genre being honored as a grand master at the 1998 World Horror Convention. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Koko (1989), and the Bram Stoker Award for his novels The Throat (1993), Mr. X.(1999) and Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) as well as for his collection of short stories, 5 Stories (2007). He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dirk

Peter Straub has a way with words. Some people don’t like that. “Too wordy”, they say. Well, I don’t share that sentiment. I could immerse myself in beautiful prose all day long, thank you very much. Now. lost boy lost girl A review. Yes I am here, yes I was real. You denied me. This is one of the finest......more

Goodreads review by Fabian

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 imp......more

Goodreads review by Dave

"What was at stake here, he thought, was the solidity of the world.” 4.5 ⭐ Initial Thoughts My love affair with Peter Straub continues. At this rate we’ll be moving in together! I’ve read five books by the guy so far and loved them all. The last one was only two weeks ago when I tackled The Th......more

Goodreads review by Corey

“A sentence from his uncle’s book popped into his mind: ‘What was at stake here, he thought, was the solidity of the world.’ The house looked exactly the same, but it had altered itself nonetheless. In some internal fashion he had no hope of identifying, the house had adjusted to his presence. Mar......more