Home Before Dark

How did it feel? residing in the home.

Maggie Holt is accustomed to inquiries like this. Her parents, Ewan and Jess, and her moved into the sprawling Victorian house called Baneberry Hall in the Vermont woods twenty-five years ago. They stayed for three weeks before leaving in the middle of the night, an experience that Ewan wrote about in his nonfiction novel House of Horrors. His story of paranormal activity and meetings with evil spirits spread throughout the globe, gaining almost as much notoriety as The Amityville Horror.

Maggie is too young to recall any of the events detailed in her father's book; she works as an old house restorer now. She doesn't believe a word of it, however. After all, ghosts are unreal. Following her father's passing, Maggie goes to Baneberry Hall to repair the property in order to put it up for sale. However, her return home is not at all welcome. Shadow people are the historical figures detailed in House of Horrors. Additionally, the fact that Maggie's father has brought notoriety to their little village has not pleased the residents. The actual Baneberry Hall is much more eerie; it is a location full of artefacts from a bygone age that allude to a grim past. Maggie begins to think that her father's writings are more truth than fiction when she encounters bizarre events that are just out of his book.

A lady returns to the mansion made famous by her father's best-selling horror memoir in Riley Sager's most recent thriller, which is a New York Times bestseller. Does her father's assertion that the location is plagued by evil powers hold true? Or are there other earthly—and maybe hazardous—secrets concealed inside its confines?