Strange and scary, this is another excellent example of Straub's work. Stated first edition, the book is near new. Dust jacket has the remains of a price sticker but no other signs of wear. Hard to put down, don't forget to eat before you start.

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.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Turtleman Used Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: CS00261
Title: Lost Boy, Lost Girl
Author: Straub, Peter
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1400060923
ISBN 13: 9781400060924
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2003
Pages: 281
Size: 14.7 cm x 21.6 cm x 2.3 cm
Bookseller catalogs: First Editions; Suspense; Horror;

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