Welcome to Manderley, now located in Amityville

 So, in the year's edition of Riley Foster's Abandonment Theater, we have Home Before Dark, which, while the main character retains some of the formulaic character building in all of Riley's heroines, Maggie does have an ongoing and current relationship with her parents, albeit one strained by her father's bestseller House of Horrors, detailing the 20 days they live in Baneberry Manor in Vermont. Dad, who recently died of cancer, and who claims to have never returned to the Manor, still owns it, which Maggie finds out about as she's visiting the estate lawyer. Maggie's mom offers to buy the manor outright, because neither mom or dad seem to think Maggie needs to be there. 

We get glimpses of "The Book", as the narrative alternates between Dad's book and Maggie's narrative as she tries to piece together what really happened when she was 5. Dad's narrative has all the pieces of The Amityville Horror, with specific sounds happening at specific times of the morning, bells ringing with no one pulling the strings, Ouija board communications, and 3 ghosts his daughter sees, Mrs. Pennyface, Mister Shadows, and a little girl. 

Maggie, as an adult, has no real memories of her time at Manderley, and indeed thinks her dad was full of crap. Some of that might be from the fact that once people found out she was the daughter from the bestseller, relationships changed. When she inherits the house, she, as a contractor, goes to fix and flip the Manor. 

Many of the characters from Dad's book are still alive and living in town, and many of them have similar memories to the book. Maggie also finds out one of her friends, who was written about in the book, disappeared the same night Maggie and her family fled into the night. 

As Maggie gets into house, some of the things her father wrote of start repeating, like the main chandelier turning on when she isn't home, a record upstairs playing "I am 16, going on 17" from the Sound of Music (which, given how much I hate that musical, even I will admit that its use here is really well done and creepy), things appearing and disappearing...

It may not be the most original story, and once again Sager uses more red herrings than a Seattle Fish Market, but it's a fun mash up of Amityville and Scooby Doo.