Classified 3 levels above top secret: The Secret History of Twin Peaks

Date
20 October 2016

It’s been 26 years since David Lynch’s delightfully disturbing supernatural drama Twin Peaks was first aired, yet it seems there are still an abundance of truths untold. Luckily co-creator Mark Frost has compiled a meticulously detailed ledger, The Secret History of Twin Peaks, that accounts for all the strange happenings in the small town – from Agent Cooper’s top secret case files to what’s on the menu at the Double R Diner.

The Dossier, to which the book is referred throughout, has seemingly been curated by an unknown person under the alias: The Archivist. Rigorous footnotes, as conveniently recorded (and beautifully typeset) by the F.B.I, shed light on the various newspaper clippings, love letters, family photographs and journal entries – a scrapbook of documentation reminiscent of point-and-click games from the late nineties.

With an extensive mix of historical references to the town prior to any of the events from the series, revisiting familiar locations and faces, it’s almost as if we’re back on the Laura Palmer case like the good old days. A plot within the book itself unfolds as you read and each excerpt is so authentically designed you almost want to run your fingers over the parts where a typewriter key looks to have punched into the paper.

The new series of Twin Peaks is set to launch some time next year (2017) and, while the wait for the cult classic to return seems like a wait too long, The Secret History of Twin Peaks is a hearty compendium of everything mysterious that will at least satisfy any fan of the Lynchian universe until then.

Remember, the owls are not what they seem…

The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost is published by Pan Macmillan.

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