The X-Files Book of the Unexplained

by Jane Goldman

Book Overview

Following the bestselling lead of Volume One, this book continues to explore the mysterious phenomena that inspires Fox TV's The X-Files--from UFO sightings and psychic crime-solving to ghosts and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061052809
• ISBN13: 9780061052804
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: HarperPrism
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Fun and Fascinating Facts

Highly recommended for fans of the show. This is just a great compilation of information about real life people, happenings, and mysteries and how they inspired the show. It covers freaky people, Bermuda triangle, voodoo, witches, and more. I don't know how many times I have related the fascinating facts about witches and the real reason for their broom sticks.. and I got it all from this book.

So much better than volume one.

I have both volume one and now volume two- thanks to used book sellers. This book contains "explainations" for some of the best in my opinion episodes. "HUMBUG", "FIREWALKER", "3" - that was the episode that had one of david duchovny's at the time's girlfriend playing a vampire, "War of the coprophages"- heh heh Dr. Bambi, "hell money", "clyde bruckman's Final repose"- the psychic epiisode-one of my all time favorites. Msybe the book was great because it had great episodes in it... or maybe it was great because it seemed to be written better than the first book. The chapters are clearly laid out into catagories: Life outside the mortal form, human enigmas, weird world, ancient beliefs, 20th century threats and paranoias, a cosmic conundrum, investigating the unexplained. It's a well written book- as i've said before. the research goldman did for this book is excellent. it is similar to the first book with quotes from the various episodes... but in my opinion is more interesting than the first one. Maybe it's because goldman had choosen some great episodes to write about. Definately get this book for your x-files collection. I'm glad that i did.

One of the best books ever

I have only read volume two, but I have to say it was one of the best books EVER! I am 13 years old and I read this book for school. When I did my presentation on it, i thought everybody would be bored, but at the end, my friends were begging me to read more. It had so much fascinating information in it. I highly reccomend that everyone on earth should read this book!

The Merits of Goldman's X Presentation

I absolutely love to know the sources of Chris Carter's inspiration for the X-Files plots. Goldman's book combines matter-of-fact prose with informative color photographs. In addition to this, she offers extensive bibliographies for further reading of the subjects she covers. Her book is a must for us hard-core fans of the show.

X-files and Paranormal combined, you can't find better!

There are many reasons to love that book: First, it had a good appearance and nice quality paper. Second, the pictures in it, the lines from The X-files make a nice reference and makes some stuff easier to understand. Third, it explains a lot of paranormal phenomenon very clearly, with the explanations of scientists, researchers, witnesses, etc. And finaly, all the reasons above explain why I loved it.