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The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

by Kate Summerscale Author

The scene is London in 1938 — where and wherein a housewife witnesses a storm of chaos that at the time also unseeable, a disaster of supernatural proportions where things materialize, atomize, disappear, and hurl themselves at walls, and much more. The hero of this true crime account is Alma Fielding and she cannot call the police on an unseeable force so she contacts the press instead. The sensationalism of the story reaches a famed Hungarian Ghost Hunter who arrives ready to communicate and investigate the poltergeist. But this explorer will find much more, as he discovers Alma’s history, something darker. This book has been marketed as true crime with thriller-esque buildup. The supernatural and the subconscious melt together, as the reader will witness the retrogressive decline of Ana and the scene turn darker so.

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