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)

The X-Files: Goblins

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by Charles Grant
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1994
Other Editions
Flag of Japan (The X-Files: Goblins)
Cover image needed Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1995

Flag of UK The X-Files: Goblins
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / HarperCollins / 1995 / 000648204X

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Les Gobelins
click for cover image France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1996

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Les Gobelins
Cover image needed France / Hardback / 1996

Flag of UK The X-Files: Goblins
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 / 1848560761
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".
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-psychics 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".
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The X-Files: Whirlwind

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by Charles Grant
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1995
Other Editions
Flag of Japan (The X-Files: Whirlwind)
Cover image needed Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1995

Flag of UK The X-Files: Whirlwind
Cover image needed UK / Paperback / HarperCollins / 1995 / 0006482058

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Tornade
click for cover image France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1996

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Tornade
Cover image needed France / Hardback / 1996

Flag of UK The X-Files: Whirlwind
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 / 184856080X
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...
Back Cover Blurb — HarperPrism
UNNATURAL DISASTERS
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 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".
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The X-Files: Ground Zero

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by Kevin J Anderson
  • United States
  • Hardback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1995
Other Editions
Flag of UK The X-Files: Ground Zero
Cover image needed UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1995 / 0002254484

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Point Zéro
click for cover image France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1996

Flag of Japan (The X-Files: Ground Zero)
click for cover image Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1996

Flag of UK The X-Files: Ground Zero
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1996 / 0006482066

Flag of United States The X-Files: Ground Zero
click for cover image United States / Paperback / HarperPrism / 19960061056774

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Point Zéro
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Flag of UK The X-Files: Ground Zero
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 / 184856077X
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...
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. Since 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. Gregory'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 feverishly 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.
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 cassettes (amazon.co.uk / amazon.com).
The X-Files: Ruins

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by Kevin J Anderson
  • United States
  • Hardback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1996
Other Editions
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click for cover image Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1996

Flag of UK The X-Files: Ruins
click for cover image UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1996 / 0002246376

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Ruines
click for cover image France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1997

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Ruines
Cover image needed France / Hardback / 1997

Flag of UK The X-Files: Ruins
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1997 / 0006482538

Flag of United States The X-Files: Ruins
click for cover image United States / Paperback / HarperPrism / 1997 / 0061057363

Flag of UK The X-Files: Ruins
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 / 1848560788
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...
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...
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 cassettes (amazon.co.uk / amazon.com).
The X-Files: Antibodies

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by Kevin J Anderson
  • United States
  • Hardback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1997
Other Editions
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click for cover image Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1997

Flag of UK The X-Files: Antibodies
click for cover image UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1997 / 0002246384

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Anticorps
click for cover image France / Hardback / Éditions 84 / 1998

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Anticorps
click for cover image France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 1998

Flag of United States The X-Files: Antibodies
click for cover image United States / Paperback / HarperPrism / 1998 / 0061056243

Flag of UK The X-Files: Antibodies
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1999 / 000648252X

Flag of UK The X-Files: Antibodies
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 / 1848560753
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?
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.
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 cassettes (amazon.co.uk / amazon.com).
The X-Files: Skin

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by Ben Mezrich
  • United States
  • Hardback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1999
Other Editions
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click for cover image Japan / Paperback / Kadokawa Bunko / 1999

Flag of UK The X-Files: Skin
Cover image needed UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1999 / 0002246392

Flag of UK The X-Files: Skin
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Voyager / 1999 / 0006482546

Flag of United States The X-Files: Skin
click for cover image United States / Paperback / HarperPrism / 1999 / 0061056448

Flag of France Aux Frontières du Réel: Peau
click for cover image France / Paperback / J'ai Lu / 2000

Flag of UK The X-Files: Skin
click for cover image UK / Paperback / Titan Books / 2008 / 1848560796
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 plastic surgeon, international politicians and a legendary Thai monster known as the "Skin-Eater".
Back Cover Blurb — Voyager (Paperback)
It's a fairly common, if ghoulish, procedure: the 'harvesting' of skin from corpses for temporary use on emergency 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'...
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 cassettes (amazon.co.uk / amazon.com).
Omnibus Editions
The X-Files: Goblins / Whirlwind

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by Charles Grant
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1996
Omnibus
Goblins / Whirlwind
Other Editions
Flag of UK The X-Files: Goblins / Whirlwind
click for cover image UK / Hardback / Voyager / 1996 / 0002255464
Unpublished Novels
The X-Files: Hunter

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...