Bram Stoker Award Best Novel Winner
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
by Peter Straub
Summary
After his sister in law takes her own life and his nephew Mark vanishes, novelist Tim Underhill investigates an abandoned house near the family home that seems linked to a local serial killer and a tragic ghost. The story alternates between Tim's inquiry and Mark's growing fascination with the empty house and the lost girl who may haunt it. Straub crafts a quietly devastating ghost story about adolescence, predation, and the secrets houses keep.
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Historical Context & Significance
The novel won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and introduced a story continued in Straub's follow up, In the Night Room.