Benjamin Radford

Although the classic bad clowns are here along with some history, I felt like some of the other 'clowns' identified were a stretch ( I'm looking at you Internet trolls ). But there were some interesting parts especially phantom clowns and Punch and Judy.

While I disagree about some of the things he wrote on, I can certainly see why this was an important book to read as far as paranormal investigation. I think he may be more of a cynic than a skeptic and in my pseudoscience course we learned the difference. I ended up using some of his suggestions on how to improve evidence for ghost hunting for a paper I had to do on the subject.