Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country

Do you guys read Whitley Strieber? His Communion (a non-fiction description of his experiences with non-human entities) is one of my all-time favorites. Some of his descriptions in that book are absolutely terrifying.

Briefly, on December 26, 1985, Strieber reportedly had an experience in which he thought he was abducted from his cabin in upstate New York by non-human beings. Communion is generally interpreted as a claim of alien abduction, but Strieber says that he draws no firm conclusions about the nature or source of his experience. He refers to the beings as "the visitors," a name chosen to be as neutral as possible, and leaves open the possibility that they are not extraterrestrials and even that they exist only in his mind. (source)

I don't know how Strieber feels about the movie version of Communion, but I enjoyed it, particularly Christoper Walken. Of course, I love Walken in pretty much anything.

If you haven't checked out Strieber's website, Unknown Country, I highly recommend that you do so. It's fascinating reading, and his post on the 'evil gene' inspired a plot twist in The Whispering Room (MIRA Books, March, 2009).