The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
by Kate Summerscale
☆ Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
This is the story of Alma Fielding, a woman who in the 1930s said her house had been taken over by a poltergeist—and the Hungarian ghosthunter, Nandor Fodor, who tried to understand what it all meant. A gripping read.
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