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100 1  Summerscale, Kate,|d1965-|eauthor. 
245 14 The haunting of Alma Fielding :|ba true ghost story /
       |cKate Summerscale. 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2021. 
300    xv, 349 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-334) and 
       index. 
520    "London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young 
       housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma 
       Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and 
       eggs fly through the air; stolen jewellery 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 turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is 
       incorporeal. As Alma cannot call the police, she calls the
       papers instead. After the sensational story headlines the 
       news, Nandor Fodor, a Hungarian ghost hunter for the 
       International Institute for Psychical Research, arrives to
       investigate the poltergeist. But when he embarks on his 
       scrupulous investigation, he discovers that the case is 
       even stranger than it seems. By unravelling Alma's 
       peculiar history, Fodor finds a different and darker type 
       of haunting, a tale of trauma, alienation, loss and 
       revenge. He comes to believe that Alma's past has bled 
       into her present, her mind into her body. There are no 
       words for processing her experience, so it comes to 
       possess her. As the threat of a world war looms, and as 
       Fodor's obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever
       more disturbed. With characteristic rigor and insight, 
       Kate Summerscale brilliantly captures the rich atmosphere 
       of a haunting that transforms into a very modern battle 
       between the supernatural and the subconscious"--|cProvided
       by publisher. 
650  0 Ghosts|zEngland|zLondon. 
650  0 Haunted houses|zEngland|zLondon. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aSummerscale, Kate, 
       1965-|tHaunting of Alma Fielding|dLondon, UK : Bloomsbury 
       Circus, 2020|z9781408895450.