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Home Before Dark - Paperback
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Home Before Dark
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Eerie, Tense, Atmospheric
- Kind of story
- Haunted house, Thriller, Mystery
- About
- Family, Memory, Small towns
- Pace
- Fast
- How dark
- 3 of 5. Dark, with real menace
- Romance
- None to speak of
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020
"A haunted house story - with a twist....[Sager] does not hold back"(Rolling Stone) in this chilling thriller from the author of Final Girls and Survive the Night.
Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share.
Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal her father recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His story of supernatural happenings and malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity - and skepticism.
Maggie was too young to remember any of the horrific events that supposedly took place, and as an adult she doesn't believe a word of her father's claims. Ghosts, after all, don't exist. When she inherits Baneberry Hall after his death and returns to renovate the place and sell it, her homecoming is anything but warm. The locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous, and human characters with starring roles in House of Horrors are waiting in the shadows.
Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself - a place where unsettling whispers of the past lurk around every corner. And as Maggie starts to experience strange occurrences ripped from the pages of her father's book, the truth she uncovers about the house's dark history will challenge everything she believes.
Author Biography
Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, most recently Home Before Dark and Survive the Night. A native of Pennsylvania, he now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Details
- Author: Riley Sager
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416
- Published: August 31, 2021
- Size: 5.55 x 8.24 x 1.11 in
- ISBN: 9781524745196
Praise
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A dark, frightening and twisty story that you won't be able to put down. Read with the lights on!
Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door
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A cross between Gillian Flynn's Dark Places and ghost hunter heir Alexandra Holzer's autobiography, Sager's latest is a haunted house story, with a twist... Sager is a master of the twist and the turn, and he does not hold back in his fourth book.
Rolling Stone
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Sager's novel is packed with the expected horror-trope-tinged suspense, literary jump-scares, and more than one twist, but its best moments are the quiet ones exploring the history of the house.
USA Today
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Something fresh, shot through with shocks of real horror.
New York Times Book Review
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