Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon

A literary scholar performed a close textual analysis of the major abduction books (Fuller, Hopkins, Jacobs, Strieber), arguing the genre's narrative conventions — leading hypnosis questions, formulaic entity descriptions, escalating claims across sequels — reveal a literary tradition shaping itself more than a consistent external phenomenon being documented.

Author

Terry Matheson

Published

1998

Library rank

#63