Communion
Author Whitley Strieber takes his family on a vacation to their remote cabin in the woods, where he is awakened one night by a brilliant light and experiences a terrifying event he cannot fully recall. In the aftermath, he is plagued by paranoia, disturbing flashbacks, and fragmented memories of small, grey-skinned beings with large, dark eyes performing bizarre experiments on him. As his sanity unravels and his family life deteriorates, his search for an explanation leads him to a support group for fellow abductees and eventually to a specialist who places him under hypnosis. This process unlocks a flood of repressed memories, confirming his abduction by non-human entities and the invasive procedures they conducted, forcing him to move from a state of pure terror to a reluctant, bewildered acceptance as he attempts to coexist with the mysterious visitors who have irrevocably entered his life.