The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

Kate Summerscale

368 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious slow-paced
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford prize Internationally bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Kate Summerscale follows a ghost hunter in 1938 London in a case that illuminates changing social attitudes toward psychoanalysis, sexuality,...

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Moods

mysterious 74%
informative 73%
dark 44%
reflective 21%
sad 17%
emotional 15%
tense 10%
challenging 7%
adventurous 3%
funny 2%

Pace

slow 46%
medium 46%
fast 6%

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3.3

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