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The Secret History of Twin Peaks
by Mark Frost
Well here we are in 2017 and I'm, reading a Twin Peaks tie-in novel while news series is weirding up the networks more than a quarter century after the last one ended in an orgy of enigmas. Go figure. Secret History is a novel in the form of a file containing documents about the, yes, secret history of the town in Twin Peaks, going right back to the original Native Americans who lived nearby and the Lewis and Clarke expedition. Myth and conspiracy and strangeness swirl around every story here, going on to incorporate UFO phenomena and Twin Peak's very own Man In Black.
If the whole thing appears coherent and grounded and carefully constructed despite the subject matter, that appears to be because this is the work of Mark Frost, one of the co-writers of the series. This seems to be the stuff that provides the frame which David Lynch dances in and out of, over and above and through with such abandon, elevating the now-mundane and worn conspiracies and mysteries to something surreal and illogical and nightmarish, which is what makes Twin Peaks such a work of genius.
Anyway, I enjoyed this. It reminded me of a similar sort of book that went with The Blair Witch Project, which transcended the source film in its layering of spooky history and chilling legend. I'm glad I read it just as the new series is coming out, and that I've noticed a follow-up volume said to bridge the gap between the end of the old series and the start of the new - this book ends more or less at the same time as the old series concludes, in a bit of a cliffhanger of its own.
If the whole thing appears coherent and grounded and carefully constructed despite the subject matter, that appears to be because this is the work of Mark Frost, one of the co-writers of the series. This seems to be the stuff that provides the frame which David Lynch dances in and out of, over and above and through with such abandon, elevating the now-mundane and worn conspiracies and mysteries to something surreal and illogical and nightmarish, which is what makes Twin Peaks such a work of genius.
Anyway, I enjoyed this. It reminded me of a similar sort of book that went with The Blair Witch Project, which transcended the source film in its layering of spooky history and chilling legend. I'm glad I read it just as the new series is coming out, and that I've noticed a follow-up volume said to bridge the gap between the end of the old series and the start of the new - this book ends more or less at the same time as the old series concludes, in a bit of a cliffhanger of its own.