Monsters of the Week

Author: Zack Handlen
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683353501
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 517

Book Description
The complete critical companion to The X-Files, covering every episode and both films and featuring interviews with screenwriters and stars. In Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files, TV critics Zack Handlen and Emily Todd VanDerWerff look back at exactly what made the long-running cult series so groundbreaking. Packed with insightful reviews of every episode—including the tenth and eleventh seasons and both major motion pictures—Monsters of the Week leaves no mystery unsolved and no monster unexplained. This crucial collection includes a foreword by series creator Chris Carter as well as exclusive interviews with some of show’s stars and screenwriters, including Carter, Vince Gilligan, Mitch Pileggi, James Wong, Robert Patrick, Darin Morgan, and more. Monsters of the Week is the definitive guide to The X-Files—whether you’re a lifelong viewer or a new fan uncovering the conspiracy for the first time. “This rich critical companion provides what evert X-Files fan deserves.” —Entertainment Weekly “The X-Files is my favorite show and Zack and Emily are my favorite reviewers of my favorite show and this is my favorite quote about it.” —Kumail Nanjiani, writer and star of The Big Sick; creator of The X-Files Files podcast “If Mulder and Scully had access to this terrific book, they would’ve solved every mystery of The X-Files in a single season. . . . The truth is in here!” —Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers

The Truth is Out There

Author: Brian Lowry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002557023
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 292

Book Description
Pour en savoir plus sur la série culte des années 90, pour avoir accès à des informations confidentielles diffusées nulle part ailleurs, plongez-vous dans le seul guide officiel de la série. Vous y découvrirez : - le résumé complet des enquêtes de Fox Mulder et Dana Scully, agents du FBI en charge des affaires non classées; - des photos inédites; - de précieux renseignements sur les conditions de tournage et la réalisation des effets spéciaux; - des interviews exclusives du créateur de la série, Chris Carter, des deux héros, Gillian Anderson et David Duchovny; - une étude approfondie des personnages de Mulder et Scully, etc. Phénomènes paranormaux, ovnis, vampires réincarnés, petits hommes verts, manipulations génétiques, laissez-vous séduire par ces enquêtes au savoir-faire subtil, où le vraisemblable n'est jamais sûr et l'invraisemblable une évidence ...

The X-Files: The Official Archives

Author: Paul Terry
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683357523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
A fully authorized, richly illustrated inside look into 50 of Mulder and Scully’s most memorable monster cases When an X-Files fan opens up The X-Files: The Official Archives, they are gaining access—for the ï¬?rst time—to Agents Mulder and Scully’s notes, records, and visual evidence from actual X-File reports. Designed to mimic a collection of FBI case ï¬?les and packed with such items as autopsy reports, mug shots, lab results, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, pages ripped from antique books on the occult, and security camera printouts, this fully authorized book is the only one of its kind. Detailing the agents’ investigations into 50 cases of cryptids, biological anomalies, and parapsychic phenomena—from the Flukeman to The Great Mutato to Pusher—The X-Files: The Official Archives showcases some of the show’s greatest villains (some dastardly, some just misunderstood), and instructs future agents on how to successfully investigate the paranormal.

Opening The X-Files

Author: Darren Mooney
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476665265
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
More than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination. Over nine seasons and two feature films, agents Mulder and Scully pursued monsters, aliens, mutants and shadowy conspirators across the American landscape. Running for more than 200 episodes, the series transformed television, crafting a postmodern mythology that spoke to the anxieties and uncertainties of the end of the 20th century. Covering the entire series from its debut through the second feature film, this book examines how creator Chris Carter and his team of writers turned a scrappy cult favorite on Fox into a global phenomenon.

The X-files Book of the Unexplained

Author: Jane Goldman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780684819631
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This title explores the fascinating phenomena featured in series two and three of "The X-Files" television series. These include alien abduction, animal mutilation, voodoo, vampires, genetic mysteries, and strange and mysterious places, such as the Bermuda Triangle.

The Complete X-Files

Author: Matt Hurwitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
The inside track on all nine seasons of the 'X-files' show and movie, plus creator Chris Carter's new commentary and explanation of previously unresolved mysteries.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to The X-Files

Author: The Editors of Entertainment Weekly
Publisher: Time Inc. Books
ISBN: 1547841419
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The truth is out there. Do you believe? Twenty-five years ago, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully introduced us to a world shrouded in secrecy and wrapped in paranoia. The X-Files chronicled their experiences with the paranormal. What began as a cult hit that blended urban legend, supernatural horror, B-movie science fiction, and shadowy government conspiracy became a pop sensation that changed how television was written. The charisma and chemistry of actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, one a crusader for the truth no matter how strange, the other grounded in scientific skepticism, brought viewers back week after week, eager to plunge deeper into the unknown. Now, on the occasion of The X-Files' 11th season, Entertainment Weekly takes you behind the curtain into the show's universe with an all-new Collector's Edition, The Ultimate Guide to The X-Files. This must-have dossier includes an oral history of the show, coverage of every season and both movies, dozens of photographs, a primer to the mythology of The X-Files, and in-depth interviews with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, show creator Chris Carter, and writers of the show. Whether you are a long-time fan or new to the series, The Ultimate Guide to The X-Files will become a definitive and highly entertaining resource that will keep you on the hunt for the truth.

Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599

Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

The Complete X-Files

Author: Chris Knowles
Publisher: X FILES
ISBN: 9781785654336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description

Monster of the Week

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613170922
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Most people don't believe in monsters, but you know the truth. They're real, and it's your task to bring them down. This revised edition of Monster of the Week brings that adventure to life.Monster of the Week is a standalone action-horror RPG for 3-5 people. Hunt high school beasties a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer, travel the country to bring down unnatural creatures like the Winchester brothers of Supernatural, or head up the government investigation like Mulder and Scully.This book contains everything you need to tackle Bigfoot, collar a chupacabra, and drive away demons. In this revised edition, you'll find: