'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors tunnels and basements of our most
famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide the British Museum becomes a haunted
prison filled with imperial plunder and restless spirits clamouring for attention.' - Malcolm
Gaskill author of The Ruin Of All Witches 'Fascinating and illuminating' - Peter Ackroyd
'Brilliantly delicate pointed shivery... You could read it as a guide to which galleries to
avoid - or to where the push for repatriation should be most urgent.' - Erin L. Thompson
professor of art crime at the City University of New York 'Achieves a near-impossible
marriage between paranormal pop-culture folklore and hauntology' - Roger Clarke author of A
Natural History of Ghosts 'A heady cocktail of history and folklore that leaves a haunting
aftertaste... Spine-tingling' - Lindsey Fitzharris New York Times bestselling author of The
Facemaker 'A reader might well do as Angell did himself: come for the delicious ghost
stories but stay for a complete takedown of the British Museum project.' The New Statesman
What if the British Museum isn't a carefully ordered cross section of history but is in instead
a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot - swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When
artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he
had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a deluge as staff old and new -
from overnight security to respected curators - brought him testimonies of their supernatural
encounters. It became clear that the source of the disturbances was related to the Museum's
contents - unquiet objects holy plunder and restless human remains protesting their enforced
stay within the colonial collection's cabinets and deep underground vaults. According to those
who have worked there the institution is heaving with profound spectral disorder. Ghosts of
the British Museum fuses storytelling folklore and history digs deep into our imperial past
and unmasks the world's oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict where restless
objects are held against their will. It now appears that the objects are fighting back.