Home Before Dark by Riley Sager adeptly captures the central theme of any good haunted house story!
Home Before Darkcombines a psychological thriller by Riley Sager style with the haunted house horror to offer an intriguing tale about dark family secrets. The story is told in two timelines: the investigation Maggie Holt decides to undertake into her past and that of her family, contrasting the novel-length manuscript written by her father about their ill-fated turn at Baneberry Hall.
Twenty-five years ago, Maggie and her family moved into Baneberry Hall. The family was forced to leave after believing the house to be haunted by ghostly figures on horses. Maggie later grew up to her father writing an all-time best-selling memoir about their supposed experience with those ghosts, claiming that they saw apparitions and other menacing things that forced them out.
As an adult Maggie is a home flipper, and she has few memories of their stay in Baneberry Hall, but she doubts the story her father wrote forever. When her father dies, she inherits his house and comes back — determined to figure out what really happened to her family Read more...