For her part, Maggie has never believed her father's account, and her uncertainty over the truth has poisoned their relationship. She has a complicated relationship with the house her parents fled decades ago, a house her father claimed was haunted in a best-selling book that inadvertently turned Maggie into a minor celebrity. When interior designer Maggie Holt inherits her childhood home, the ominously named Baneberry Hall, her feelings are mixed. So begins Riley Sager's clever, twisty, and altogether spine-chilling Home Before Dark, the story of a family, a childhood, but most of all, the story of a house-and a brilliantly spooky one at that. Alternating between Maggie's uneasy homecoming and chapters from her father's book, this 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"-Publisher.Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of Ewan's book, she starts to wonder if what he wrote was more fact than fiction. 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 the House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. However, her homecoming is anything but warm. Maggie has lived her life in the shadow of her father's book, so when she inherits Baneberry Hall after his death, she returns to renovate the house to prepare it for sale.
His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with the malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity - and skepticism. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a horror memoir, House of Horrors. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms.
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