Cheltenham Literature Festival 2021 – Irving Finkel

Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial and evidence of our ongoing fascination with them is clear in our books, television and film to this day. Join us as author Irving Finkel (The First Ghosts) explores ghosts from a standpoint quite different to that of most spectral literature. Drawing on evidence from the earliest pre-human archaeology and the earliest writing and literature, Finkel suggests that belief in and experience of ghosts has been a central component of humanity since its inception.