The Suffering, MJ Mars
The Suffering, MJ Mars
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The Suffering

Author: MJ Mars

Narrator: Jonathan Johns

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/28/2023

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Ghost


Synopsis

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

Recreating the séance 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 séance 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.

About MJ Mars

MJ Mars is the author of The Suffering. She has had a number of short stories published in anthologies including Dark Peninsula Press's Negative Space and Negative Space 2 - A Return to Survival Horror, Colors in Darkness's Deadly Bargains, and Silver Empire's Secret Stairs. She has also been featured on the No Sleep podcast and gave a virtual reading of her work at the Horrorgasm convention.


Reviews

Loads of promise! The story begins in the late 19th century when a wealthy businessman organises a special seance in order to try and contact five terrifying entities. The group are successful in raising the dead but the seance ends in a bloody massacre. The only survivor, following a period of incar......more

Goodreads review by Kenneth

The Suffering is my first exposure to MJ Mars’s writing. The description seemed like it would be right up my alley. A Victorian mansion. A seance gone wrong. Not one, but five terrifying ghosts haunting the place. Sign me up. Ahh, but the meat on the bones doesn’t always make for a very satisfying m......more

Goodreads review by Carol

It's Victorian England in the year 1876. A seance at Brackenby House, calling upon five ghosts with various, dangerous backgrounds for the power for a person to see their fate. However, that fate was quickly realized when everyone in the house was massacred, except for Lucius Holgrove, the psychic w......more

Goodreads review by Devin

This was a fun read. Reminded me of a cross between 13 Ghosts and The Haunted Mansion.......more