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  • Published: 3 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781774881019
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $45.00

The Whisperings




Burn Our Bodies Down meets Delicious Monsters in this terrifying new young adult horror by acclaimed master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland.

Burn Our Bodies Down meets Delicious Monsters in this terrifying new young adult horror by acclaimed master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland.

Joana and her younger brother Peter aren't used to setting down roots. Ever since the violent murder of their mother, their father can't stay in one place for long, haunted by the literal ghosts of the past. He has what he calls "the Whisperings," and will do anything to protect his children from the horrors that torment him.

When the family moves to Burlington, Vermont, Joana thinks they've finally found a place to call home. They rent the lower half of a creepy yet comfortable mansion downtown, and Joana actually begins to fit in at school, thanks in part to Willem, a handsome (and single) classmate.

But a near-death experience awakens the Whisperings in Joana, and she soon realizes her family isn't the only family living in the house. She meets the Keils — ghosts forced to relive their own gruesome murders every night. As they say, misery loves company . . . and suddenly, Joana is forced to protect the ones closest to her from a supernatural threat, in this horrifying haunted house story for teen readers.

  • Published: 3 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9781774881019
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Joel A. Sutherland

JOEL A. SUTHERLAND is the Silver Birch, Diamond Willow and Hackmatack Award-winning author of Be a Writing Superstar, numerous volumes of Haunted Canada (a series that now has more than 500,000 copies in print), Summer's End (a Red Maple Award Honour Book currently in development for television by Scholastic Entertainment, Mainframe Studios and Man of Action Entertainment), House of Ash and Bone and The Whisperings. His new series, Haunted, has been praised by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies from Aberystwyth University in Wales and lives in southeastern Ontario with his family, where he is always on the lookout for ghosts.

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Praise for The Whisperings

PRAISE FOR THE Haunted Canada SERIES:
"What could be scarier than moving next-door to a haunted house? This book is CHILLING. Loved it!" —R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps

PRAISE FOR House of Ash and Bone:
"A thoroughly enjoyable, suspenseful supernatural tale." —Kirkus Reviews

"Sutherland lets readers know from the start that something is wrong with the house and its inhabitants. A feeling of being unmoored permeates the book as Josephine tries to understand what is real and what is delusion. . . . A creepy and unsettling ghost story." —School Library Journal