Strangers and the Strange Dead
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Title: | Strangers and the Strange Dead |
Author(s): | Kipler |
Date(s): | 2000 |
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Fandom: | The X-Files |
External Links: | online here |
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Strangers and the Strange Dead is an X-Files story by Kipler.
It is her most widely recced story.
Reactions and Reviews
Unknown Date
Strangers and the Strange Dead by Kipler is a haunting story about abductees who start showing up in the woods one chilly winter. A curious coffee shop worker documents the odd happenings and the pain of lives left unfinished. Kipler's prose is a joy to read, as careful and ponderous as the story itself. The ending is especially moving, and very prescient of Kipler since it was written before the XF episode "Requiem." [1]
I'd been looking for this. I'm so glad I found it again. So -- what is it like, coming back from the dead? This might tell you. Gods know, Chris Carter didn't. <grr>[2]
Dead bodies and shivering strangers disturb the hilltown of Bradenton. bugs says: I made the call in Febuary when this fic was posted, it will be my favorite fic of 2000. Still is. The night 'Requiem' aired, I said this fic was already the best post-ep before any of us could step to the 'puter. [3]
2000
She's back from a too long hiatus with Strangers and the Strange Dead. This is a third person look at a Scully of the future: still searching for something and investigating. In this case the investigation is of the mysterious reappearance of strangers in a small New England town. I love the way this woman writes. She always creates a story that cocoons the readers in her world and gives away just enough.[4]
2014
This story is perfect. It's on my ten best short fics for The X-Files, maybe for fanfiction, period. I really like stories that are told from an outside POV. The opening to this piece still gives me the shivers, the ending still astounds me.[5]
References
- ^ omniscribe
- ^ Recommended Reading - Rhi's Favorite Links, Archived version
- ^ A Conspiracy of Three: Our Story Recommendations
- ^ News for the OBSSEed, March/April 2000
- ^ Crack Van, January 2014