At first I was a sceptic, but Craig and Jane Hamilton-Parker are really incredible!

One of the best books on psychic development I have seen in a long time

Storr interviews everyone from mediums to monsterologists and recounts the lot in a simple, yet evocative style that makes this book hard to put down, even if you don't believe in the paranormal

A very amusing way to scare yourself stupid

This award-winning writer is at the vanguard of the new British journalism. A taut, fascinating and funny book

Britain has over 500-years' worth of ghost stories in the cupboard and in The Natural History of Ghosts, Roger Clarke makes them dance ... the most original and readable book exploring our ghost-rich culture to appear for years ... fascinating

Clarke's examination of the need people have to believe remains insightful and illuminating throughout

An intriguing, shivers-down-the-spine book

Lively and absorbing ... [Clarke] has proven himself an ideal guide to this troubled and disorderly realm

A fascinating social history ... exceptionally well written and researched

Why do ghosts wear clothes? This is just one of a number of interesting questions raised by this jaunty book ... In a series of short, snappy chapters, Clarke examines the evidence for just about every ghost who ever drew, or withdrew, breath ... but A Natural History of Ghosts is also haunted by another story, lurking not very far beneath: the story of the author's childhood need to believe in ghosts, and the gradual erosion of that belief

A gripping history that traces the scientific and social aspects of ghostly sightings

Compelling ... Research into the paranormal necessarily involves a fair degree of debunking, and Clarke is careful to be sceptical. The narrative of ghost-hunting is simultaneously a history and exposure of fraud and popular delusion ... [yet] Clarke retains a boyish and ... well-informed enthusiasm for his subject

[A] voyage through the half-lit world of lost souls ... tales told with ghoulish relish