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The Haunting of Alma Fielding

Poltergeist, circa 1930

The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale

October 14, 2021 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

English woman Alma Fielding has had a hard life. She has had numerous health issues, is in a dull marriage and struggling financially. The world around her is in chaos, too – war with Germany seems imminent. And to add to all of her stress she seems to have attracted an at first mischievous, at times violent spirit – a poltergeist. Alma’s haunting has attracted the local newspaper, and also the attention of Hungarian emigre Nandor Fodor, a journalist turned psychic phenomena investigator. Fodor has created his […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Ghost, ghost hunters, Kate Summerscale, paranormal and supernatural, supernatural, The Haunting of Alma Fielding

xoxoxoe's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Ghost, ghost hunters, Kate Summerscale, paranormal and supernatural, supernatural, The Haunting of Alma Fielding ·
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“Friendship can be as deep as the ocean. It’s all a kind of love, and love isn’t any one kind of thing.”

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

October 4, 2021 by narfna 4 Comments

This book is rightly subtitled: An Adventure. I approve of that. It is an adventure! Reading this book is like bringing childhood and games back into adulthood (though one of the characters is a teenager). And it also has really good character work on top of that. Another way to describe this book is imagine if Ready Player One was set in the real world, and it was full of three-dimensional ladies and also ghosts: Boston multimillionaire dies, leaves game for the public, rewards the winners with […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adventure, contemporary, Fiction, ghosts, kate racculia, LGBTQIA, narfna, paranormal and supernatural, tuesday mooney talks to ghosts

narfna's CBR13 Review No:135 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adventure, contemporary, Fiction, ghosts, kate racculia, LGBTQIA, narfna, paranormal and supernatural, tuesday mooney talks to ghosts ·
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