And although I loved so many aspects of the book when I first read it, I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed with how little we learned about what our favorite Twin Peaks characters had been up to over the past 25 years. Origin Story: How an Unassuming Pilot’s Story of Bright Objects in the Sky Sparked a Worldwide Quest for the Truth,” Newsweek, special issue, November-December 2017, 15.

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier is an epistolary (dossier-style) novel by Mark Frost, and a sequel to Frost's earlier book, The Secret History of Twin Peaks. The text was initially released by Flatiron Books on October31,2017 ( 2017-10-31). I imagine that, for those who want the second season’s references to ufology and aliens to be either a red herring or simply a metaphor for the metaphysical shenanigans of the Lodges, some will be disappointed to see Twin Peaks more openly indulging in straight sci-fi. But it’s important to keep in mind that Peaks always bent genres — mystery, comedy, soap opera, horror, etc. — and as such, this is par for the course. The audiobook version did a great job differentiating the different book fonts with different voices, and the flow from one voice to the next was seamless. I suspect people who don’t like hunting down footnotes or interpreting all the sloppy handwriting would enjoy t Other continuity issues include: the AB-negative blood sample belongs to Jacques Renault in season one and then suddenly changes to Leland in season two; Harold having a diary entry from Laura dated the day of her death, despite her giving him the diary a week before; and the phone call Laura receives the night of her murder, which switches from Leland in the show to James in the film. There are also pragmatic issues, such as James traveling from Twin Peaks to San Francisco on his motorcycle — and Donna getting a postcard from him — all within 2 or 3 days. And why exactly is Cooper so surprised by the forests of Washington state in the pilot when he’d just been there the previous year, visiting Deer Meadow?Whoa. Talk about some serious goosebumps. Major Briggs is the archivist of the dossier (as the novel reveals), and I believe that he coded this message to warn Special Agent Tamara Preston about the evil “double” Cooper. Maybe Preston will notice that Cooper is always avoiding his “double” in mirrors (to hide Bob)? Perhaps Preston will dream of Cooper trapped in the Lodge, and realize that the other Cooper is an evil doppelganger? Since book 8 (the only symmetrical regular number) belongs to Cooper, maybe the full warning is even clearer: “Fear the Double – Cooper.” Most fans have made a correlation between Project Blue Book and the film’s mysterious Blue Rose cases, seemingly Gordon Cole’s attempts to classify investigations of a less-than-standard nature. That seems doubly pronounced here, with Cole essentially revealed as working with Doug Milford and Blue Book. The implication is that he quite intentionally assigned Cooper to the Laura Palmer case, knowing the types of things which might be unearthed. This adds to one of the most intriguing mysteries of Twin Peaks, that odd cosmic tangle which seems to follow Cooper, Cole, Windom Earle, Phillip Jeffries, and Major Briggs. They share an unbelievable web of connections, both mundane and fateful, and there still seems a good deal more to learn, since much of this is only maddeningly hinted at in the novel. The book deliberately obfuscates any attempts to glean direct information about the new season, but I do have a few guesses. I wouldn’t be surprised if Tamara Preston features as one of the new additions to the series — certainly, that would be excellent if it were the case. Robert Forster has reportedly joined the show and my hunch is that he’s most likely playing Harry’s brother, Frank Truman. Much as the now popular theory that Laura Palmer, former murder victim, is the Antichrist, Twin Peaks has always been built on conflicts of misogyny and anxiety over the eager easiness of misogyny. By closing one eye, wearing anaglyph glasses, we can remove our annotating FBI agent and principal female voice completely.

When “The Secret History of Twin Peaks” was first announced, the book was pitched as “a novel that reveals what has happened to the people of that iconic fictional town since we last saw them 25 years ago and offers a deeper glimpse into the central mystery that was only touched on by the original series.” Finally arriving last month in advance of the long-awaited 2017 revival of the cult TV show, the book offers only a few glancing details of the former while delving deeply into the latter. Author and series co-creator Mark Frost uses the bulk of his narrative to weave the strange history of “ Twin Peaks” throughout the larger tapestry of American history and the long legacy of occult conspiracies.The book contains various alleged continuity errors with the series. Indeed, author Mark Frost purposely decided for the book to be a dossier composed of a set of documents authored by various people, in which the facts presented could be in-universe errors made by these characters, even purposely including typos or statements that seem untrue, his reasoning being that actual historical documents are filled with inaccuracies. [1] In The Final Dossier, it is stated that Harry Truman was a source for parts of the dossier, passing some data to Briggs while remaining uncredited: [2] this may solve some of the discrepancies. But if it is intentional, why? What’s the point of rewriting or ignoring what was previously established? (And for a show which made a name for itself by demanding that viewers pay close attention to details, no less). The reconciliation between Ben and Audrey is not apparent in the book, due to a bitter note allegedly left by Audrey before she went to the bank. The note also indicates that Ben planned on proceeding with the Ghostwood plans, despite his campaign against it by the end of the show and the fact that it was in Catherine Martell's hands at this point.

On p. 232, the Archivist includes a report from Dr. Jacoby regarding Ben Horne’s brief delusion of re-enacting the Civil War as a “southern general.” The Guide states that coach Bobo Hobson was never caught on camera, fearing that it would take his soul but the dossier has a picture of him in a Twin Peaks Gazette article.

The central three voices The Secret History of Twin Peaks– the investigator, The Archivist, and our FBI annotator– are flawed and specific perspectives. The truth may be, in some cases, between the three of them, or it might be betwixt and with none of them. Interesting that Jacoby brings up the color purple again, and I can only wonder if this is connected in any way to the Purple Room in The Return. Horton, H. Perry. 2017. Between Two Worlds: Perspectives on Twin Peaks. Washington, U.S.: Kindle Edition, location 4,024. Actions have consequences. Whatever happens from here, whatever the ‘squares’ decide about my professional fate, if I can survive this ordeal, find the strength to dig my way out of it, I make this vow: No more lies. Only truth. Straight up. To everyone.”