The X-Files
Original Novels
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THE X-FILES
60 Minute Drama
Science Fiction / Horror

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1993 — 2002

BROADCASTER
Fox

SEASONS / EPISODES
9 Seasons / 201 Episodes
2 Movies (1998, 2008)

DVD RELEASES
UK (Region 2 / PAL)

United States (Region 1 / NTSC)
The X-Files: Goblins

Goblins cover image
by Charles Grant
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1994
Other Editions
Goblins
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / HarperCollins / 1995 (Amazon.co.uk)
Cover image needed Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1995
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 (Amazon.co.uk)

Aux Frontières du Réel: Les Gobelins
France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1996
Cover image needed France / Hardback / 1996
Back Cover Blurb — HarperPrism
OPENING THE X-FILES...

Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line.

Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern-America, from pyro-spychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. The cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X".

Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
A brand-new X-File is opened...

FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigators of strange and inexplicable cases known as the X-Files, are called upon to examine another eerie unsolved mystery plaguing modern America. It’s the kind of case the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics. The kind of case filed under "X".
Notes
The X-Files: Whirlwind

Whirlwind cover image
by Charles Grant
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1995
Other Editions
Whirlwind
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / HarperCollins / 1995 (Amazon.co.uk)
Cover image needed Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1995
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 (Amazon.co.uk)

Aux Frontières du Réel: Tornade
France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1996
Cover image needed France / Hardback / 1996
Back Cover Blurb — HarperPrism
UNNATURAL DISASTERS
Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes.
But this one is particulary 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 connect the victims.
They were victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain, and most hideous death...

MULDER AND SCULLY, FBI
The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line.
Their job: investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there. And panics.
The cases filed under "X".

Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque. Only one thing connects the victims. They were all the victims of one of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most hideous death...

FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigators of strange and inexplicable cases known as the X-Files, are called in to examine these mysterious and painful casualties. Their hunt for the truth leads them to a horrifying discovery...
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The X-Files: Ground Zero

Ground Zero cover image
by Kevin J Anderson
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1995
Other Editions
Ground Zero
Cover image needed UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1995 (Amazon.co.uk)
USA / Paperback / HarperPrism / 1996 (Amazon.com)
UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1996 (Amazon.co.uk)
Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1996
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 (Amazon.co.uk)

Aux Frontières du Réel: Point Zéro
France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1996
Cover image needed France / Hardback / 1997
Back Cover Blurb — Voyager (1996)
A FIFTY-YEAR OLD SECRET WILL NOT DIE

Renowned nuclear weapons researcher, Dr. Gregory, is not only dead — he's been charred to a radioactive cinder in his laboratory at the Edward Teller Nuclear Research Facility near Oakland, California. Sincce this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the "X-Files", strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved.

As Mulder and Scully begin their frustrating work, they confront a tight-lipped Federal bureaucracy whose job it is to stop questions before they are asked. One by one, Mulder and Scully hit dead ends, closed security clearances, and classified documents that no one wants them to see. But that doesn't stop them from ripping the lid off Dr. Gegory's illegal project — a new type of flash nuclear explosive that has all the power of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, but with a new design that leaves virtually no radioactive fallout. As they feversihly work to uncover why Dr. Gregory and two others unrelated to his research have died, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.

Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
Dr Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead — he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigators of strange and inexplicable cases known as the X-Files, are called in to solve the mystery.

As the bizarre deaths start to pile up Mulder and Scully realise with horror that this twisted puzzle could have fatal consequences for the entire world...
Notes
  • An audiobook version of Ground Zero, read by Gillian Anderson and running to three hours in length, was released in both the United States and UK in December 1995. The story was abridged and was spread over two casettes (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com).
The X-Files: Ruins

Ruins cover image
by Kevin J Anderson
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1996
Other Editions
Ruins
UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1996 (Amazon.com)
Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1996
USA / Paperback / HarperPrism / 1997 (Amazon.com)
UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1997 (Amazon.co.uk)
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 (Amazon.co.uk)

Aux Frontières du Réel: Ruines
France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1997
Cover image needed France / Hardback / 1997
Back Cover Blurb — Voyager (1997)
LOST CITY, FOUND

When a well-connected American archaeologist, Cassandra Rubicon, disappears while exploring the lost Mayan city of Xitaclan, the incident becomes a case for FBI agents Mulder and Scully. They are investigators assigned to the X-Files, the strange and inexplicable cases the FBI wants to keep hidden — cases involving the paranormal, the supernatural, and possibly, the extraterrestrial.

Mulder thinks there may be more to this case than simply a missing team of scientists — namely ancient curses, blood sacrifices and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungle since before history.

Scully is, as always, more sceptical and likely to provide the logical explanations for her partner's unorthodox speculations. Meanwhile, a covert US military commando team has been sent to investigate, and destroy, a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins — a signal aimed upwards, at the stars...

Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
A team of archaeologists has mysteriously disappeared whilst exploring the depths of the Yucatan jungle... FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigators of strange and inexplicable cases known as the X-Files, fly out to Mexico to uncover the truth.

Their exploration leads them to a strange electronic signal coming from beneath ancient ruins — a signal aimed upward, at the stars...
Notes
  • An audiobook version of Ruins, read by Mitch Pileggi, was released in both the United States and UK in July 1996. The story was abridged and was spread over two casettes (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com).
The X-Files: Antibodies

Antibodies cover image
by Kevin J Anderson
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1997
Other Editions
Antibodies
UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1997 (Amazon.co.uk)
Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1997
USA / Paperback / HarperPrism / 1998 (Amazon.com)
UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1999 (Amazon.co.uk)
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 (Amazon.co.uk)

Aux Frontières du Réel: Anticorps
France / Hardback / Éditions 84 / 1998
France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1998
Back Cover Blurb — Voyager (1999)
When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smouldering ruins of the DyMar genetic research lab, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly man-made plague is on the loose. As the agents investigating the X-Files — cases that the bureau deem unsolvable — Mulder and Scully must pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI...and beyond.

Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery about the lab's most recent project: a promising but highly-dangerous bio-machine that can cure any disease and heal any wound, potentially even a doorway to immortality. But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it's anything but theoretical. Could machines created to cure have learned to kill? As sinister forces close in, Scully fights to save the life of an innocent boy while Mulder comes face-to-face with a crazed and desperate man whose slightest touch brings agonizing death — and perhaps a resurrection more horrible still.

Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
A disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab… Is a deadly man-made plague on the loose?

FBI agents Mulder and Scully, investigators of strange and inexplicable cases known as the X-Files, examine the dead man's research. Did he find a miracle cure only for it to turn out to be a lethal killer? Who are the faceless government enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of immortality falls into no-one's hands but theirs?
Notes
  • An audiobook version of Antibodies, read by Mitch Pileggi, was released in both the United States and UK in September 1997. The story was abridged and was spread over two casettes (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com).
The X-Files: Skin

Skin cover image
by Ben Mezrich
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1999
Other Editions
Skin
Cover image needed UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1999 (Amazon.co.uk)
USA / Paperback / HarperPrism / 1999 (Amazon.com)
UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1999 (Amazon.co.uk)
Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1999
UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 (Amazon.co.uk)

Aux Frontières du Réel: Peau
France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 2000
Back Cover Blurb — Voyager (Paperback)
It's a fairly common, if ghoulish, procedure: the 'harvesting' of skin from corpses for temporary use on emernecy burn victims until their own grafts are ready. But when a team of moonlighting medical students accidentally takes skin from the wrong donor, the results are catastrophic: a New York City hospital ward is destroyed in a psychotic bloodbath and an elderly professor is suddenly the city's most wanted fugitive.

Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the only ones to suspect something more ominous than a medical procedure gone awry. As the FBI agents investigating the 'X-Files' — strange and inexplicable cases the Bureau wants to keep hidden — Mulder and Scully are determined to track down the forces they suspect are behind the murder.

Scully is looking for an experimental medical technology with disastrous side effects, but Mulder suspects the stakes are even higher, a fear gruesomely confirmed as they begin to uncover an unholy alliance between a battle-trained plastic surgeon, international politicians and a legendary Thai monster known as the 'Skin Eater'...

Back Cover Blurb — Titan Books
Medical students accidentally take skin from the wrong donor resulting in a bloodbath in a NYC hospital ward, and an elderly professor becomes the city’s most wanted man...

FBI agents Mulder and Scully suspect something much more ominous than a medical procedure gone awry. Together they work to uncover an unholy alliance between a plasticsurgeon, international politicians and a legendary Thai monster known as the "Skin-Eater".
Notes
  • An audiobook version of Antibodies, read by Bruce Harwood, was released in the UK and the United States in March and April 1999 respectively. The story was abridged and was spread over two casettes (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com).
Omnibus Editions
The X-Files: Goblins / Whirlwind

Cover image needed
by Charles Grant
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1996
Omnibus
Goblins / Whirlwind
Other Editions
UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1996 (Amazon.co.uk)
Unpublished Novels
The X-Files: Hunter

Cover image needed
by Charles Grant
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
Notes
  • This seems to have been dropped after the first two X-Files novels sold substantially more than was usual for a tie-in range and the publishers realised they needed to capitalise on this fact with a product that was of a much higher standard than Charles Grant's first two efforts...