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An Interview with Alice Bell – Ghosts, Mediums, and Putting Together a Chaotic Found Family
Author Guest / September 7, 2023

Your book, GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, is about a medium and ghosts. What made you write about these things? Do you have a fascination with the paranormal? Do you enjoy shows about ghosts? I love the re-enactments but find the “ghost hunter” type shows kind of goofy. I grew up in a very rural, superstitious part of the UK and being told ghost stories – in fact my mum’s side of the family insist they lived in a haunted house for years – but I don’t actually believe in ghosts myself. But I love horror, I love ghost stories. They tell us so much about ourselves! They’re always an expression of something else, I find. What you’re scared of, what you’re haunted by, is very honest, and it’s obviously usually shaped by the local area and its history as well. Where I live now, in Cork in Ireland, if someone says they were “haunted” it means they were lucky – “Managed to get the Taylor Swift tickets! We were only haunted.” That’s pretty cool.   I do actually love the “ghost hunter” shows because of how goofy they are! They’re the kind of mediums Claire wishes she could be – they put…