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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Head to a deadly haunted house in Vermont in Home Before Dark by Riley Sager. Find a Home Before Dark summary, book information, and book reviews.

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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager Book Information

Author: Riley Sager
Genre: Murder Mystery | Book Set In Vermont | Ghost Thrillers
Pages: 400
Publisher: Dutton
Publication Date: June 2020

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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager Summary

What was it like? Living in that house.

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. 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. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.

Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm.

People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. 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.

Alternating 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.

Dutton

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About The Author, Riley Sager

Riley Sager is a New York Times bestselling author and current full-time writer. Sager is a pseudonym for this former journalist, and he resides in New Jersey. Read more about Riley Sager.

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