The Haunting Of Alma Fielding
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated first printing. Mylar cover included.
“Many Britons had turned to spiritualism in the 1920s because of the losses of war, and many were turning to it now for fear of the conflict to come.”
London 1938. In the suburbs, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding’s modest home, china flies off the shelves, eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a terrapin materializes on her lap. Nandor Fodor—a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research—reads of the case, and hastens to the scene of the haunting. But when Fodor starts his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems. By unraveling Alma’s peculiar history, he finds a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss—and the foreshadowing of the nation’s worst fears. As the specter of Fascism lengthens lengthens over Europe, as as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes even more disturbed. With rigor, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of non-fiction writing Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor’s enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting.
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated first printing. Mylar cover included.
“Many Britons had turned to spiritualism in the 1920s because of the losses of war, and many were turning to it now for fear of the conflict to come.”
London 1938. In the suburbs, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding’s modest home, china flies off the shelves, eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a terrapin materializes on her lap. Nandor Fodor—a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research—reads of the case, and hastens to the scene of the haunting. But when Fodor starts his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems. By unraveling Alma’s peculiar history, he finds a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss—and the foreshadowing of the nation’s worst fears. As the specter of Fascism lengthens lengthens over Europe, as as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes even more disturbed. With rigor, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of non-fiction writing Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor’s enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting.
Trade cloth edition in near fine condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Stated first printing. Mylar cover included.
“Many Britons had turned to spiritualism in the 1920s because of the losses of war, and many were turning to it now for fear of the conflict to come.”
London 1938. In the suburbs, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding’s modest home, china flies off the shelves, eggs fly through the air; stolen jewelry appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a terrapin materializes on her lap. Nandor Fodor—a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research—reads of the case, and hastens to the scene of the haunting. But when Fodor starts his scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is even stranger than it seems. By unraveling Alma’s peculiar history, he finds a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss—and the foreshadowing of the nation’s worst fears. As the specter of Fascism lengthens lengthens over Europe, as as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes even more disturbed. With rigor, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of non-fiction writing Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor’s enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting.
ISBN 978-0-525-55792-0
Kate Summerscale
2020