Home Before Dark 📖

Home Before Dark

Sager Riley
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horror supernatural thriller past tense first POV ~406 pp

Vibe

tense oppressive paranoid

A propulsive and dark horror. Expect dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 80
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 60
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 70
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 65
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 85
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 40%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count101,428
Page count~406 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst