While for some this may be a put off, I found it to be a nostalgic nod to those works. While this isn’t billed as an inspired work, it is clear famous works such as THE HAUNTING of HILL HOUSE and THE AMITYVILLE HORROR have influenced this story. HOME BEFORE DARK is a clever reimagining of the haunted house stories that we have come to know and love over the years. Now that she has been reunited with Baneberry Hall, Maggie is determined to find the truth. She cannot remember anything that happened during that time. Maggie is the biggest skeptic of all and has for years insisted that the story is lies. The tale of Maggie’s experience in Baneberry Hall rivals that of famous stories such as Amityville in popularity and skepticism. These three weeks went on to be documented by her father, Ewan, in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors that would later become a phenomenon. She lived there for only three weeks with her parents until they ended up fleeing in the dead of the night. Maggie Holt has lived for twenty-five years in the shadow of Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods that she used to call home.
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