Lost Souls

Missing Mile, North Carolina, is home to a club where young people in black clothes gather to find a place where they belong. Ghost, who perceives things others cannot, is one of them. So are Ann, who yearns to be loved, and Jason, who goes by the name Nothing and has just begun to understand something ancient and undying about his father and about himself.

Three stylish drifters arrive in town: Molochai, Twig, and the alluring Zillah, whose green eyes are as bright as limes. They are wandering too, and they have an old hunger for blood and a taste for young, tender flesh. Nothing and Ann become their prey as the group sets off on a reckless, secret drive south toward New Orleans. Ghost follows through the dark highway, guided by his gift, determined to reach his own fate, rescue Ann from the newcomers, and keep Nothing from his own worst impulses.

Lost Souls is a horror novel by American writer Poppy Z. Brite, published in 1992 and the author's first novel. It is the only full-length story featuring Brite's Steve and Ghost characters, who had already appeared in many short stories. The book expands the earlier short story "The Seed of Lost Souls."