I promise, no vibrating eggs.
ALSO BY MARY ROACH
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science
Credits
Photograph credits: title page: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis Getty Images/Robert Holmgren Getty Images/Derek Berwin Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Getty Images/Digital Vision Mary Evans Pictures Collections Getty Images/Wallace Kirkland Getty Images/Andrea Pistolesi H. Armstrong Roberts/Corbis Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Getty Images/Andrea Chu courtesy of Grant Sperry Bettman/Corbis
About the Author Six Feet Over
Mary Roach is also the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Salon, Wired, GQ, Vogue and the New York Times Magazine. Her next book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science, will be published by Canongate in May 2008. She lives in Oakland, California.
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2007 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
Originally published in the United States of America in 2005 as Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by W.W.Norton & Company, Inc.,
500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
This digital edition first published in 2009 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Mary Roach, 2005
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-84767-692-4