[1] The novel follows the story of a child abductor, who murders a young girl one hundred years earlier.

Suffer the Children was initially published in paperback and has sold over a million copies since its release.

[2] After a young girl is murdered one hundred years earlier in Port Arbello prior to the beginning of the novel, the one responsible comes back and begins taking out more children, one by one.

As people scramble to find the culprit, everyone comes to a shocking realization that an evil history is repeating itself.

[2] Of the subject matter, Saul stated that "I always find ... that when you have a scary scene, it broadens the scope of possibilities if you have children involved.