The Haunting of Beacon Hill

The Beckoning Dead, Book 1

By: Ambrose Ibsen

Narrated by: Melissa Moran

Sadie has a gift. And she'll do anything to keep from using it.

At 16, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her.

Now 25 and working as a librarian, Sadie is called upon by a desperate family friend to look into a strange series of events. A teenaged girl has entered a reputedly haunted house in town and has gone mad. Committed, the girl attempts suicide and claims to be terrorized at all hours by a horrific specter known as "Mother Maggot".

Despite having subdued her gift for the past nine years, Sadie wishes to assist the girl and reticently agrees to visit the site of the haunting. But upon entering the house on Beacon Hill, she discovers that Mother Maggot isn't merely a figment of a disturbed teen's imagination....

©2019 Ambrose Ibsen (P)2019 Tantor

Liberry

For a book set in a library and the main characters are librarians, please find a narrator who can pronounce both words. Annoying and distracting. Do not recommend!

The narrator and prose ruined any possibility

LibRarian, LibRary!!!! Why the narrator drops the r is insufferable!! The story is decent but written without an editor. Many cliches are repeated ad nauseam, descriptive language is extremely juvenile and simply shallow character development. This book is too painful a listen to care how and what happens. St. James is a far more complex and engaging writer of paranormal.

not a fan of the narrator

Great story, but the narrator was terrible. Almost didn't listen after the first few paragraphs, glad I pushed through it though, the story is really good.

Great ghost story

This is one of the best original ghost stories I have heard in a long time . I started the book this morning and ended up listening to it until I want to bed which, was a mistake. Luckily I got to the end and my phone died. When I started my phone up again this morning I realise the story wasn't finished and the thrills had not ended . Just like the ghosts in this story this book will come back to you again and again

Good foundation.

You can tell this is going to be a series because things you think are going to wrap up don't because the story is not ending.
So it was a good foundation I may or may not follow up with the next.