Books Like Communion

Alien abduction is something that first began gaining widespread attention during the 1960s after the Betty and Barney Hill case of 1961. Although alien invasion stories are common in science fiction, tales of alien abduction are less prevalent but just as scary. The prospect of getting abducted from the safety and comfort of your own home or vehicle by beings from another world is terrifying, especially as abductees are powerless to do anything about it. For example, in Communion by Whitley Strieber, the author documents his own abduction experience that took place in 1985. The semi-autobiographical novel combines science fiction and horror elements in a tale that is hard to put down. For more stories where alien abduction is featured prominently, check out the following books like Communion.The TakingBy Kimberly DertingThe Taking by Kimberly Derting is the first novel in the series of the same name. It stars 16-year-old Kyra Agnew, who wakes up five years after arguing with her dad and seeing a flash of bright light, only to discover that everyone in her life has moved on. While Kyra is still the same sixteen-year-old she was when she vanished, her parents have divorced in the meantime and her boyfriend is in college and is now dating her best friend. Kyra teams up with Tyler, her boyfriend’s kid brother, to try and discover the truth, but in the process, finds that she is not the only one to have been taken. SightingsBy Mark LukensSightings by Mark Lukens features three film school students who journey to the Specter Lake cabin hoping to capture proof of an alien visitation. The students bring along Fran Conner, the daughter of Lydia Conner, whose mother was abducted from the cabin 21 years earlier by aliens. Lydia floated up to the ceiling and vanished in a blinding flash of light as her temporarily paralyzed husband watched helplessly. As the students re-create events from the abduction with the plan to use Fran as bait, they end up getting more than they bargained for. AbductionBy Rodman Philbrick & Lynn HarnettAbduction by Rodman Philbrick and Lynn Harnett is the story of Luke Ingram and Mandy Durgin. Luke is on his way home one evening when the sky goes black, and he wakes up in his own room with no recollection of how he got there. Meanwhile, Mandy wakes up on her front porch despite falling asleep in her bed hours before. Both Luke and Mandy also have the same terrifying hallucinations in which they see cold operating tables and beings with large, bug-like eyes. While Mandy is convinced that there must be a rational explanation for their experience, Luke is not convinced. MalevolentBy E. J. DeenMalevolent by E. J. Deen follows Elliott Grey, a top-notch journalist for a Seattle-based magazine. Although Elliot is trained to have an open mind, he is very skeptical about the existence of extraterrestrials. However, after interviewing a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens, Elliott begins to have nightmares of his own abduction. This forces him to confront his own refusal to believe as he is terrorized and tortured by entities he cannot understand.DecimateBy Christopher RiceDecimate by Christopher Rice is set after Claire Huntley and her brother, Poe, experience something traumatic during a midnight hike in the woods of Montana. After a blinding light and a rumbling pulse knock both kids off their feet, they wake up with no memory of what happened to them. However, their father believes it was a violent extraterrestrial abduction, and his obsession with the event tears the famly apart. Fourteen years later, Claire still battles with anxiety, and her brother has spent years struggling with addiction. Unfortunately, as Claire tries to heal her relationship with her brother, he dies in a plane crash, prompting her to reunite with her estranged father, who is still investigating what happened to them all those years ago. Light Years From HomeBy Mike ChenLight Years From Home by Mike Chen is about a family whose lives were forever changed during a camping trip. Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, were present when their father and brother vanished during the trip. Although their father turned up days later, convinced that aliens had abducted him, their brother Jakob never returned. Fifteen years later, the two sisters are no longer on speaking terms as both of them dealt with the event in their own ways. However, the two must fix their issues when an older stranger, Jakob, suddenly reappears with the FBI hot on his trail.  The ReturnBy Joseph HelmreichThe Return by Joseph Helmreich offers a different twist on alien abduction as it happens during a live television broadcast on the night of a lunar eclipse. The abductee, Andrew Leland, is a renowned astrophysicist who, in full view of everyone, is lifted into the sky by a spacecraft and taken away. Andrew is found six years later wandering in a South American desert but denies ever having been abducted. Shawn Ferris is a physics graduate student obsessed with discovering what really happened to Andrew. However, when he finally tracks him down, Shawn discovers that Andrew has been on the run for years from a secret organization determined to force him into revealing what he knows.