Maggie Holt

Maggie Holt is the daughter of Ewan and Jessica Holt. She appears in her father’s novel as a five-year-old girl who imagines that ghosts are coming into her bedroom through an armoire. According to Ewan’s novel, Maggie cut her check, which resulted in a scar, when she tripped while running through the woods behind the house and fell on William Garson’s tombstone.

Maggie is the narrator of her novel, set twenty-five years later, in which she tells the truth about what happened at Baneberry Hall. Maggie does not remember much of what her family experienced during their 20 day stay there, but she senses that what she has read in her father’s novel, which she refers to as “the Book” (9), is a bunch of lies. On his deathbed, Maggie’s father made her promise that she would not return to Baneberry Hall. He claimed...