It was a pleasure to work with Wayne State University Press and especially Marie Sweetman, our acquisitions editor, whose warmth and expert guidance helped us immeasurably through the publication process. Annie Martin, the editor-in-chief, was our first contact at the press and pointed us in the right directions. Barry Keith Grant, the series editor of “TV Milestones,” and our anonymous readers offered useful insights that were important to our revisions. The Noreen Reale Falcone Library at Le Moyne College and the Ernest Stevenson Bird Library at Syracuse University aided us in conducting research together in Syracuse, New York. Our department chairs—at Le Moyne, Maura Brady in English and Michael Streissguth in Communication and Film Studies, and at Syracuse, Erin Mackie in English—supported our work on this project. Will would also like to thank the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse for granting him a semester of sabbatical leave. The students in our classes on film noir and Twin Peaks shared in our fascination with this series as both scholars and fans. We were able to present portions of chapters at conferences organized by the Association of Adaptation Studies, the Literature/Film Association, and the Modernist Studies Association. Agents Discenza and El Younsi assisted in our research, while David Israel (the CEO of TwinPeaksTour.com) drove us to filming locations in Washington and gave deeply knowledgeable commentary. In addition, we are grateful to the following friends and colleagues, some of whom are Twin Peaks fans themselves and all of whom provided encouragement and fun distractions as we wrote: Amy Breiger, Steve Cohan, Bryan Cole, Kelly Delevan, Matt Fee, Jim Fleury, Mike Goode, Eric Grode, Roger Hallas, Jim Hannan, Chris and Kate Hanson, Tom Leitch, Linda LeMura, Joe Marina, Kyle Meikle, Barton Palmer, Jolynn Parker, Kendall Phillips, Ann Ryan, Eevie Smith, Matt Spitzmueller, Kate Costello-Sullivan, Zachary Snow, Tim Sullivan, Farha Ternikar, Travis Vande Berg, Con Verevis, Kim Waale, Patrick Williams, and Bob and Dawn Wilson. Special thanks to William Twede from Twede’s Café in North Bend, Washington for great conversation and being an ally of this project.