Narrated by Cady McClain and Jon Lindstrom, Home Before Dark by Riley Sager has a runtime of 11 hrs 4 mins on Audible.
Publisher’s Summary
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.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Cady McClain and Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 11 hrs 4 mins
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Release year: 2020
- Audible category: Literature & Fiction / Horror / Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Listener Ratings
Home Before Dark holds an average listener rating of 4.4/5 from 7322 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.5/5
- Story: 4.3/5
- 5-star ratings: 55% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “I do not understand the bad reviews”
This book was fantastic!! I read the bad reviews and debated if I really wanted to spend a credit on it. I’m so happy I did! I did not want to stop listening!! Just shows that it can pay off to not always follow the bad reviews. If I had, I would have missed this excellent read— Megan, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Satisfying Haunted House Novel”
The book follows two stories in parallel, the father’s version from his famous novel based on the family’s experience twenty five years past and the grown up daughter trying to find the truth behind his book which she believes is a lie. The combination creates a fantastic balance. The father’s story is creepy and the daughters keeps us grounded in a sensible reality. When the daughter starts to experience things we know something bigger is going on. I won’t give away the ending except to say it was nothing I had expected and it also satisfied both the creepy and realistic views of the father and the daughter.The two narrators did a great job, so glad they went with two, one a man for the father’s version and a woman for the daughter’s. Great job, hit the mark perfectly.
— CLOregon, Audible listener
3/5 stars — “narration half good, story same “
I had to give 5 stars for the narration for the male narrator, the female one was awful… pandering and condescending…unnecessary whispers as if the story is being told to 8 year olds at a camp Fire.I agree with whoever called this book "meh" go for it if you’re cleaning out your garage and need background noise?
— Amazon Customer, Audible listener
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