- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; Second Impression edition (1 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007142307
- ISBN-13: 978-0007142309
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,276,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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FROM THE REVIEWS OF BLACK HOUSE:
‘One of the most brilliant and chilling thrillers of modern times.’
Daily Mail
‘Fabulous. The ultimate in storytelling by two masters of the craft.’
Independent on Sunday
‘A new horror epic … impossible to put down once you have started.’
Sunday Express
PRAISE FOR PETER STRAUB:
‘Straub is a master at creating fear out of everyday life.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘No one is better than Straub at having whole communities rocked by the forces of wickedness.’
Observer
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A new psychological thriller from the co-author of the massive international No 1 bestseller BLACK HOUSE.
From the ferocious imagination of Peter Straub springs a nerve-shredding new chiller about the persistence of evil.
A woman kills herself for no apparent reason. A week later, her teenage son disappears. The vanished boy’s uncle, Timothy Underhill – familiar to Straub’s readers from Koko and The Throat – is compelled to return to his hometown of Millhaven to discover what he can.
A madman known as the Sherman Park Killer has been haunting the neighbourhood, but Underhill believes that Mark’s obsession with a local abandoned house is at the root of his disappearance.
He fears that in peeling back the house’s hideous secrets, Mark came across its last and greatest secret – a lost girl, one who has coaxed Mark deeper and deeper into her mysterious domain, where he must encounter a fearsome adversary.
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Nancy Underhill's death had been unexpected, abrupt-a death like a slap in the face. Read the first page
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book. I started off intending to just read a chapter before bed, but I just could'nt put it down, even though it scared half the life out of me. i won't describe the plot, as I don't want to spoil the surprise, all I can say that this a 'must read' book!!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
At last a truly great and genuinely scary thriller. This book is a real gripper from beginning to end, and if you like to be scared than this is the book for you. How many times have you read a review telling you a book is scary only to be sadly disappointed when you read it yourself. Not the case with this book believe me. Stephen King is retiring this year, but if you're a fan of inteligently written prose in this genre you have nothing to fear.With books like these the future of fear is safe in Straub's claw.
Format:Paperback
Well, I started "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" with high expectations having been suitably chilled by Straub's "Ghost Story", which certainly did what it said on the tin. But "LBLG"? Sorry, despite my willing it, my skin stayed firmly in place. Strangely, for a horror-yarn, this tale builds towards a relatively happy-ending. Genre-defying? Yes. Scary as a result? No. There just ain't no menace. No dread. The protagonist isn't very afraid as he explores the neighbourhood House of Horrors and as a result, neither are we. Damn...
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This story gave me the creeps!
I read this book in the span of about a week. Granted, it started off a little slow, but once Straub introduced us to the disturbing serial rapist/murderer Joseph Kalendar, the... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2007 by Cherie Leonard
Lost Boy Lost Girl
One of the worst book's that i have ever read, If you enjoy going backwards and forward in time and the conclusion comming in a matter of pages, then this is the book for you! Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2004 by Mark Hughes
great horror story
the first peter staub book i have read and i will be looking for his others.
if like me and you have never read him try this it scared the crap out of me .
if like me and you have never read him try this it scared the crap out of me .
Published on 27 July 2004 by Ms. B. E. Harris
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