Category: Gothic Thriller

HOME BEFORE DARK BY RILEY SAGER

10/31/2021

Home Before Dark is an insidious and compelling novel that had me questioning everything. This book unnerved me to the core making the perfect pre-Halloween read!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 30, 2020
Genre: Gothic Thriller
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 397 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box.

In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

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 called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.

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THE NESTING BY C.J. COOKE

1/31/2021

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The Nesting is a solid gothic read with supernatural elements that come from Nordic folklore. If you're interested in either of these things then I recommend this unique novel!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: September 29, 2020
Genre: Gothic Thriller. Modern Folklore.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 400 pages
Format: Paperback. Purchased.

The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller.

Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway—in the same place where he lost his wife, Aurelia, to suicide. It was their dream house, and he wants to honor her with it.

Lexi Ellis takes a job as his nanny and immediately falls in love with his two young daughters, especially Gaia. But something feels off in the isolated house nestled in the forest along the fjord. Lexi sees mysterious muddy footprints inside the home. Aurelia’s diary appears in Lexi’s room one day. And Gaia keeps telling her about seeing the terrifying Sad Lady. . . .

Soon Lexi suspects that Aurelia didn’t kill herself and that they are all in danger from something far more sinister lurking around them.

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