Books about the show Novels Music The Truth Is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Brian Lowry
Fans of TV's hottest cult show will find this compendium of facts and figures about The X-Filesessential. Contains complete episode guide, photos, the story of the show's origin, interviews with X-Files creator Chris Carter and actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, plus a detailed look at the extraordinary special effects and a wealth of intriguing trivia.
--From Amazon.com
[Note: This is the first official guide to The X-Files, that covers seasons one and two and the very beginning of three. The next two official guides are below]
Trust No One: The Official Third Season Guide to The X-Files by Brian Lowry
An official companion for the third season of the media sensation, The X-Files, this edition features inside stories on the cast and crew, candid on-set photos, intriguing trivia, a detailed full-episode guide, and much more.
--From Amazon.com
I Want To Believe: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Andy Meisler
One of the most popular and critically acclaimed TV shows in recent years, The X-Files, created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, continues to break new ground in dramatic series television. I Want to Believe is the authoritative, fact-packed episode guide to the fourth season of this Emmy award-winning series no X-phile can be without. Inside fans find:
-Greatly expanded, richly detailed synopses for each episode--including plot twists, dialogue, and action sequences
-Exclusive interviews with Chris Carter, Gillian Anderson, and David Duchovny--plus dozens of writers, producers, guest stars, and crew members
-Complete cast and credit lists
-Air dates and Nielsen ratings for each episode
-An international X-FIles viewing guide
-The most up-to-date information on The X-Files' intricate, fascinating "Mythology"
-Plus hundreds of behind-the-scenes insights into the series' creative process, popularity, growth, and its influence on popular culture around the world
-A four-color foldout poster detailing The X-Files mythology as revealed over the past four seasons
--From Amazon.com The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece
A very deteailed guide covering the first three seasons of The X-Files containing an annotated episode guide (with more details then you could ever imagine), character profiles, the creation of the series, nitpicks and a lot more. A good source for any die hard X-Phile.
The Unauthorized Guide to The X-Files by Hal J. Schuster
This irreverent, completely unauthorized guide to TV's top "spook" show profiles X-Files creator Chris Carter; traces the history of the series to date; discuses the theories, mysteries, and conspiracies on which the show is based; provides in-depth information on all the characters and the actors who play them; exposes bloopers, practical jokes, and X-Files trivia; and much more.
--From Amazon.com
The Unauthorized X-Files Challenge : Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TV's Most Incredible Show by James Hatfield, George Burt
From creepy cult favorite to prime-time phenomenon, the award-winning TV series The X-Files has taken America by storm. Now, for the show's millions of fans, comes the first ever X-Files trivia quiz book. In addition to more than 1,000 challenging questions on which fans can test their "X-Qs," The Unauthorized X-Files Challenge features a synopsis of every episode, [through season three] character profiles, behind-the-scenes secrets, and more.
--From Amazon.com
The Unauthorized X-Cyclopedia : The Definitive Reference Guide to the X-Files by James Hatfield, George Burt
From creepy cult favorite to prime-time phenomenon, the award-winning TV series "The X-Files " has taken America by storm. Now, here's the ultimate reference guide for the millions of fans of this x-traordinary show. From Anasazi to Zirinka, readers can find every person, place, and thing in the "X-Files" universe--including complete information on every episode through the fourth season.
--From Amazon.com
X-Files Confidential : The Unauthorized X-Philes Compendium by Ted Edwards, Jeff Rice
Veteran TV journalist Ted Edwards has talked to all of the players on Fox's top-rated show, The X-Files, and has uncovered the in-jokes, the inside stories, creative tensions, secret obsessions, and more. Totally candid, completely unauthorized, and topped with revealing photos, this revised edition of the popular guide also includes fascinating reports on each episode of the 1996-97 season. 60 photos & illustrations.
--From Amazon.com
The Nitpickers Guide for X-Philes by Phil Farrand
For those fans who think they know everything about The X-Files, The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes may hold some surprises. From equipment flubs and plot oversights to changed premises and fun facts, author Phil Farrand covers the first four seasons with full reviews of every episode.Why is it that the character T.A. Berube has a six-digit zip code? How could Samantha Mulder, agent Mulder's missing sister, have two birthdays? And how about the VCR in the "Wetwired" episode that continues to play a videotape after the video has been ejected. Compiled with the Nitpicker's Prime Directive in mind, "All nits picked shall derive from sources the creaters consider canonical," as well as the Secondary Directive, "all nitpickers shall perform their duties with lightheartedness and good cheer." The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes is a thorough, dense read for the dedicated X-Files fan looking for a little fun and a lot of facts.
--From Amazon.com
Beyond Mulder and Scully: The Mysterious Characters of The X-Files by Andy Mangles
While "X-Files" stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (a.k.a. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully) have received a great deal of attention, little has been revealed about the show's secretive characters, including "Deep Throat", "X", and "Cigarette Smoking (or Cancer) Man". This book exposes the Truth about these shadowy figures and the actors who pay them, via biographies, interviews, trivia, and more.
--From Amazon.com
The X-Files Book of the Unexplained Volume I The X-Files Book of the Unexplained Volume II by Jane Goldman
If you watch The X-Files thinking that it's just a show and can't really happen, these two books may surprise you. An in-depth and well researched look at some of the alleged real life events that have inspired episodes of The X-Files, contains chapters on UFOs and aliens, human oddities, psychics, ghosts, weird nature, unknown creatures, government conspiracies, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, Voodoo, vampires, serial killers, ancient mysteries, and much more. A must read for any X-Phile who wonders where the writers get their ideas from.
The Science of The X-Files by Jeanne Cavelos
Jeanne Cavelos feels that "The X-Files is actually the television drama most concerned with science
today, incorporating recent discoveries and exploring the limits and values of science." Cavelos's guide to
the science behind the stories can be a little confusing if you're not an X-phile (it could use a glossary),
but it is a treasure-trove of gross science facts you'll enjoy even if you've never seen the show. Disturbing
birth defects, parasitic worms that come out of your eyes, killer fungi, cockroaches in serried
ranks--whatever makes you go "Ewww," it's probably in here. Besides these monster-of-the-week
topics, Cavelos gives a scientific background to the X-Files mythology: the web of aliens (gray, black oil,
shape-shifting, whatever), hybrids, abductions, government cover-ups, and the looming figure of the
Cigarette-Smoking Man. Whether you are a wide-eyed, broad-minded (gullible?) Mulder or a skeptical,
rationalist, cold-water-throwing Scully, this book has an insight, a silly story, or a good quote for you.
Novels: The X-Files: Goblins by Charles Grant
The throats of army officers at Fort Dix are being slit by trees that have "grown" arms and legs. Mulder and Scully must determine whether there are supernatural forces at work, or if it is the result of a ghastly human plan.
The X-Files: Whirlwind by Charles Grant
Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling. There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were the victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain and most hideous death....
--From the publisher
The X-Files: Ground Zero by Kevin J. Anderson
When renowned nuclear weapons researcher Dr. Gregory is found dead in his lab, charred to a radioactive cinder, Mulder and Scully are called in. Now they will rip the lid off Dr. Gregory's illegal project--a new type of flash nuclear explosive that has all the destructive power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, but with an innovative design that leaves virtually no radioactive fallout. Original.
--From Amazon.com
The X-Files: Ruins by Kevin J. Anderson
In the most ambitious and exciting X-Files adventure to date, Mulder and Scully fly to the Yucatan jungle to investigate a missing team of archaelogists. Their exploration leads to a strange electronic signal coming from beneath ancient ruins a signal aimed upward, at the stars....
--From Amazon.com
The X-Files: Antibodies by Kevin J. Anderson
When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agents investigating the "X-Files" cases the bureau has deemed unsolvable Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI... and beyond.
--From Amazon.com
The X-Files: Fight the Future by Chris Carter (The novelization of the movie)
Beneath the tranquil surface of a North Texas town, the future of the human race waits.
After forty years, members of the global conspiracy known only as The Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. Only FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have a glimpse of the nightmare that lies ahead for the rest of the world: an alien invasion fueled by the most devastating virus in human history.
And only they know that the Truth isn't out there anymore--
It's already here.
--From Amazon.com
If you're interested in my opinions of these novels, here are my thoughts. Charles Grant's novels are pretty silly and in my opinion don't capture the feel of the series or the characters. They can still make an adequate read if you love The X-Files that much (Goblins is the worst, Whirlwind is better). Kevin J. Anderson's three novels are all great and do a much better job of capturing the show's feel, I definately receomend you check them out. Fight the Future is pretty much the same as the movie, so if you're the kind of person who can read a novelization of a feature film you may enjoy it but you might want to avoid it if you don't. But it does expand a little (particularly by giving more information on what happened to Samantha) which might make it of interest.
Music Songs in the Key of X
1. X-Files Theme (Main Title) - Mark Snow
2. Unmarked Helicopters - Soul Coughing
3. On The Outside - Sheryl Crow
4. Down In The Park - Foo Fighters
5. Star Me Kitten - William S. Burroughs/R.E.M.
6. Red Right Hand - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
7. Thanks Bro - Filter
8. Man Of Steel - Frank Black
9. Unexplained - Meat Puppets
10. Deep - Danzig
11. Frenzy - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
12. My Dark Life - Elvis Costello/Brian Eno
13. Hands Of Death (Burn Baby Burn) - Rob Zombie/Alice Cooper
14. If You Never Say Goodbye - P.M. Dawn
15. X-Files Theme (Remix) - P.M. Dawn (P.M. Dawn The Truth and the Light by Mark Snow
1. Introitus: Praeceps Transito Spatium
2. Materia Primoris: The X-Files Theme (Main Title)
3. Raptus
4. Adflatus
5. Deverbero
6. Cantus Excio
7. Mercutura
8. Lamenta
9. Insequi
10. Otium
11. Dubitatio
12. Iter
13. Progigno De Axis
14. Carmen Amatorium Ex Arcanum
15. Facetus Malum
16. Memoria
17. Mitis Lumen
18. Fides Fragilis
19. Exoptare Ex Veritas
20. Kyrie The X-Files: The Album
1. One - Filter
2. Flower Man - Tonic
3. Walking After You - Foo Fighters
4. Beacon Light - Ween
5. Invisible Sun - Sting/Aswad
6. Deuce - The Cardigans
7. One More Murder - Better Than Ezra
8. More Than This - The Cure
9. Hunter - Bjork
10. 16 Horses - Soul Coughing
11. Crystal Ship, The - X
12. Black - Sarah McLachlan
13. Teotihuacan - Noel Gallagher
14. X-Files Theme, The - The Dust Brothers The X-Files Original Score by Mark Snow
1. Threnody In X
2. B.C. Blood
3. Goop
4. Soda Pop
5. Already Dead
6. Cave Base
7. Remnants
8. Fossil Swings
9. Plague
10. Goodbye Bronschweig
11. Call To Arms, A
12. Crossroads
13. Corn Hives
14. Corn Copters
15. Out Of Luck
16. Stung Kissing
17. Cargo Hold
