1986 / Ebook / 272 pages / USA
****
Cashing in on the grave defiling, this is a worthwhile expansion beyond the scope of his earlier book that analyses the origin story and legacy and debunks stubborn myths like a spoilsport.
Jon Ronson, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness2006 / Ebook / 328 pages / UK
***
There's supposed to be a theme of eccentric mundanity connecting these reprinted newspaper columns, but when he runs out of those, he fills it out with his write-ups on Stanley Kubrick, cults and paedophilia rings that he couldn't find a place for in the main books. I'd heard him tell most of these stories before.
2007 / Ebook / 288 pages / UK
***
Further collected columns chronicling trivial occurrences from his week contrasted with a few in-depth investigations I'd read before elsewhere. He does tend to repeat himself.
2008-12 (collected 2012) / Ebook / 260 pages / UK
***
A well-read fibber's tall tales and extraordinary excuses, some funnier than others.
Fave: 'Flying Saucer Harmonies'
Various, The X-Files: The Truth Is Out There
2016 / Audiobook / 360 pages / Various
***
They used up the better-known authors on the first batch, though I'm not sure whether the average quality was really lower here or I'd just reached my fanfic limit. A couple stood out for being traditional X-Files done nicely, another for being desperately meta in a way I reliably enjoy regardless, and another would have gone down in infamy if they'd actually made it. Most would have been instantly forgotten. It's only mildly distressing that the generic titles of these anthologies are in the reverse order of the '90s companion books.
Fave: Kendare Blake's 'Heart'
