Enoch Arden

Zine
Title:	Enoch Arden
Publisher:	Otter Limits Press, The Presses
Editor:	TM Alexander, PJ Alexander
Author(s):	Julie Harrington
Cover Artist(s):	KOZ
Illustrator(s):	KOZ
Date(s):	May 1997
Series?:	no
Medium:	print
Size:
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	X-Files
Language:	English
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cover by KOZ

Enoch Arden is a gen 101-page novel by Julie Harrington, illustrated by KOZ. Initially published by Otter Limits Press, a division of The Presses, Enoch Arden is one of many titles that were later distributed by Agent With Style.

Regarding the title: "Enoch Arden" is named for the protagonist of the poem Enoch Arden by Lord Alfred Tennyson, collected in Enoch Arden, & c.

Summary

Summary from the publisher:

A series of bizarre slayings in DC gets the attention of the X-Files. Agents Mulder and Scully receive unexpected assistance from a retired Scotland Yard Inspector who has what appears to be a personal vendetta, when they discover these killings carry over from similar unsolved murders committed in London nearly a century before."

Editorial

The Alexanders write in preface to Enoch Arden:

Our author Julie Harrington makes her home in the Chicago suburbs. We were first introduced to her by fellow editor and writer, Shannon Mowatt (X-istence) of Lone Gunmen Press, California. Shan was kind enough to send this talented lady our way. Ever since then, Julie has amazed us with her seemingly endless source of imaginative ideas.

This author is an editor's dream. Not only is she very thorough in her research and fact-finding, but she takes editing with an open mind and sincere desire to have her fiction be the very best it possibly can. She possesses a refreshing eagerness and an unquestionable flair for story telling. Best of all, she captures the often unusual humor that is the trademark of the series we've all come to know and love.

Enoch Arden is a good example of her research abilities. It is a carefully plotted flight down Supranormal Road, looking over your shoulder the whole time; an eerie look at someone who is slightly more than human. Enoch is a bit like Tooms or Clyde Bruchman; a person with a little...more...than most of us have, be it unusual physical needs via appetite or heightened psi abilities. Enoch has that 'little more'; just enough to make him a deadly threat to anyone he encounters; truly a villain worthy of a nomination to the X-Files Hall of Infamy.

Bernice Talbot is a person with a score to settle, and that score will take her wherever it may. In this case, it takes her from her home in England to Washington, DC, and right into the middle of an X-File. Here Julie gives us the strong characterization of a professional woman trapped in a deadly pas d'deux, trading off the role of predator and prey with the elusive Arden.

Mulder and Scully, assigned to the murders due to their unusual nature, find themselves pulled into that dance. Scully's denial gland gets a heavy workout as Julie unfolds her tale for the reader.

So now it's time for you to turn the page and walk through the door marked 'X' into a darker place. Enjoy this sojourn into the X-Files. We sure did.