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Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale lives in London. She attended Oxford and Stanford universities and then worked at the Independent and the Daily Telegraph, where she was obituaries editor from 1995 to 1996. She is currently the editor of the Independent on Sunday Review.


What Makes Spiders So Terribly Scary to Human Beings?

Kate Summerscale on the Enduring Persistence of Arachnophobia
September 28, 2022  By Kate Summerscale
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The Violent Haunting That Rattled an English Suburb

Kate Summerscale on Ghost Hunter Nandor Fodor
April 30, 2021  By Kate Summerscale
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I Think I Will Get Hung, but I Don’t Care As Long As I Get Breakfast

The Victorian Tale of a 13-Year-Old Boy Who Murdered His Mum
July 12, 2016  By Kate Summerscale
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