First edition with iconic cover painting by Ted Seth Jacobs

When He Met “Them”

The enduring importance of Whitley Strieber’s Communion

‘Tis the season of pagan retentions. In honor of the unknown, my Christmas read is Communion by Whitley Strieber.

I am revisiting a book I first encountered more than 12 years ago. Strieber’s memoir records the experiences of a successful writer torn from his Hudson Valley, New York, surroundings and thrust into a…