The Suffering

By: MJ Mars

Narrated by: Jonathan Johns

"It was a suffering like no other. And, oh, how they suffered."

Recreating the seance that led to the infamous Victorian Suffering massacre seems like a good idea at the time. But Kyle Birbeck soon discovers that the ghosts his distant ancestor banished into the walls of Brackenby House in 1876 have been lurking, waiting for a chance to come out.

One by one the five terrifying ghosts latch onto each of the students who reside at Brackenby, preying on their deepest fears: A three-eyed Incan giant. A member of the Hellfire Club who struck a deal with the devil to keep his fortune in the afterlife. A thieving factory hand who fell to his death, torturing them with endless footsteps. An oracle with a horde of dead sailors to do her bidding, and a seventeenth century axe-wielding executioner with a murderous hobby.

It's up to Kyle and his friends to uncover the real secrets of the seance and banish the ghosts for good. But they soon come to realize it isn't Brackenby House that's haunted. They are. And the ghosts will stop at nothing to continue The Suffering . . .

Contains mature themes.

©2023 MJ Mars (P)2023 Tantor

Mmmmmmm

I’m not at all saying this is a “bad” book. it just didn’t grab me the way I thought it was going to.

Fine to pass the time

No foreshadowing or real world building. Things just kind of happened suddenly. There were so many ghosts and characters that it was hard to keep everyone straight. Nothing was ever really explained.