Now dedicated to restoring old homes, Maggie decides to return to Baneberry Hall with the guise of flipping the ill-famed mansion. She’s confident that what her father penned is nothing but lies-lies which have haunted the whole of her adulthood. But Maggie has no memories of these malevolent encounters. In House of Horrors, a novel that subsequently fascinated readers worldwide, her father claims they were terrorized by evil spirits.

Twenty-five years ago, in the dead of night, Maggie Holt and her family fled Baneberry Hall-a Victorian estate nestled in the Vermont woods.

Wonderfully atmospheric and creepy, his latest channels The Amityville Horror and House on Haunted Hill. Sager freshens a classic horror trope to deliver this outstanding gothic thriller. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction.Īlternating between Maggie’s uneasy homecoming and chapters from her father’s book, Home Before Dark is the story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman’s quest to uncover them – even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.Ī woman confronts the ghosts of her past in Riley Sager’s must-read, HOME BEFORE DARK. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself – a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity – and skepticism. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors.

Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound – and dangerous – secrets hidden within its walls? In the latest thriller from New York Times best seller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s best-selling horror memoir.

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