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 calledĀ House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivalingĀ The Amityville HorrorĀ in popularityāand skepticism.
Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her fatherās book. But she also doesnāt believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, donāt exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her fatherās death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled inĀ House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals arenāt thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggieās father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itselfāa place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her fatherās book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction.
In the latest thriller fromĀ New York TimesĀ bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her fatherās bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthboundāand dangerousāsecrets hidden within its walls?
