Lost Boy Lost Girl

Praise

“Lost Boy Lost Girl may be the best book of [Peter Straub’s] career.”—Stephen King

“Genuinely creepy.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A lost boy and a lost girl, a serial killer and a haunted house, a suicide and a kidnapping—Straub’s masterful tale of ultra horror is all that and a bag of chips!”—Entertainment Weekly (The Must List)

“Eerie, unnerving, and concise . . . dark and surprisingly moving.”—The Miami Herald

“Straub is the master of subtle, smoldering dread. . . . This consummate horror novelist’s creepy, erudite vision of the beyond will chill you like the winter wind.”—People

“A real thinking-person’s thriller, a nuanced, layered reworking of the haunted house story, genuinely creepy.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“A near-perfect amalgam of mystery and horror that marks yet another high point in Straub’s excellent career as a novelist . . . [He is] at the height of his storytelling powers. This one is his spookiest, most unnerving solo effort since Ghost Story.”—Denver Post

“Peter Straub is just plain scary, never more so than in lost boy lost girl . . . an inspired mixture of creative dread and delight, seamlessly crafted so to defy description. . . . [He] breathes life into the dead, making it seem entirely possible, even logical, for such spirits to exist. . . . While the fear factor scores high, Straub makes it flow naturally because, not despite, a story line that stubbornly refuses to stick to chronology or a single narrative voice. He tells many stories in one.”—The Columbus Dispatch

“A whale of a book.”—Dark Realms

“This is the great novel of the supernatural Straub has always had in him to write . . . beautiful, moving, and spiritually rich.”—Booklist

“Strikingly imagined.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A ghost story, a serial killer story, a haunted house story and an unhappy family story told from multiple perspectives . . . taut and surprisingly moving, a treat even for those who don’t believe in ghosts . . . [Straub] is a deft and literate storyteller who makes you believe in the impossible.”—Detroit News