Lost Boy, Lost Girl

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Lost Boy, Lost Girl is a 2003 horror/suspense novel by novelist, Peter Straub. The book won the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for best novel of the year.

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The novel revolves around a middle-age writer named Timothy Underhill, struggling to help his brother Philip and his nephew, Mark, cope with the recent suicide of Philip's wife, Nancy. A perplexing series of events revolving around a haunted house, a pedophilic serial killer and the lost girl of the title, is triggered when Mark suddenly goes missing and is suspected to be the latest victim of the killer. Mark had begun to harbor an obsession after the death of his mother, with an abdandoned house on the Underhill's street. Timothy and Philip struggle to connect the threads of this mystery and find Mark before he falls victim to the horrors of the abadoned home; horrors both human and supernatural in nature.