Home Before Dark: A Novel

Riley Sager

Jun 2020 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Cady McClain and Jon Lindstrom

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I'm on chapter 11 and I already wish the ghost or whatever it is in the house gets the main character. She is so annoying. Perhaps it's the characterization but I really don't like her. I'm not too sure I'm going to waste my time finishing this book. I just hate that I paid $14.00 for it.

In my opinion the story was boring until chapter 11! it took me awhile to figure out that each chapter goes back and forth from past to present, one chapter will be about the main character and the other will be from her fathers POV from the past ..at least thats my understanding

the first 5 minutes of the book sucked me right in and wouldn't let me go. I laugh while I'm watching horror movies. I got chills listening to this book.

About the author

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.