Lost Boys

Lost Boys (1992) is the first horror novel and short story by author Orson Scott Card. The novel, set in 1983, revolves around a game programmer and his family. His claim to fame is a fictional Atari computer game called Hacker Snack. Step Fletcher, a devout Mormon, moves his pregnant wife DeAnne and their three children (Stevie [7], Robbie [4] and Elizabeth [a toddler]) from Indiana to Steuben, North Carolina so he can start a new job as a technical writer. Fletcher must deal with several unpleasant situations. His manager, Dicky Northranger, is a greedy, petty and manipulative man who does everything he can to undermine Step's position, while the owner of the company Ray Keene asks him to cross check whatever technical job Dicky does as it seems he is not very comfortable about Dicky's competence. Then there is Glass, a young programmer at work who is very friendly towards Step and always offering to babysit his kids. Later on, Step comes to realize that Glass is a child molester...