Interspersing Maggie’s story with chapters from her father’s book, Sager delivers something like a cross between The Haunting of Hill House and The Amityville Horror with a tough female protagonist.
Final Girls (2017) remains his most fresh and inventive novel, but his latest is significantly more satisfying than the two novels that followed. As he has in his previous three novels, the author makes contemporary fiction out of time-honored tropes. Horror aficionados will feel quite cozy as they settle into this narrative, and Sager’s fans will recognize a familiar formula. Determined to find out the truth behind her father’s sensational bestseller, Maggie returns to Baneberry Hall. Ewan made his name as a writer-and ruined her life-by writing a supposedly nonfiction account of the terrors their family endured while living in this grand Victorian mansion with a dark history. When Maggie Holt’s father, Ewan, dies, she’s shocked to discover that she has inherited Baneberry Hall. Spectral danger and human evil stalk Sager’s latest stalwart heroine.
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