Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide.--Janet Maslin "New York Times"

Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun.--David A Walton "Pittsburgh Union-Tribune"

Surreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in Spook she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club.--Vince Darcangelo "Boulder Weekly"

Reading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining.--Dorman T. Schindler "Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News"