On September 4 the horror community was rocked by the death of Peter Straub. The iconic writer’s novel Ghost Story (1979) is often listed as one of the top ten books in the genre. And rightfully so. Since I’ve read Ghost Story multiple times, I decided to mourn Straub’s passing and honor his memory by revisiting another of his works. Lost Boy Lost Girl (2003) excellently displays the author’s literary bravura. Straub possessed a dexterous sleight-of-hand stylistic ability that heightened his creation of narrative ambiguity. In Lost Boy Lost Girl there is a tweaking of the meta mentality and a toying with temporal structure. Both of those devices combine with…