Into The Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction Paperback – March 9, 2014

The book is about a brave family and the mystifying abduction experiences they encountered. I especially appreciated the candor in which it was written. The facts were presented without embellishment. The quotes from the hypnotic regressions were quite interesting given that some didn't make a lot of sense; but to me, that meant they were most likely accurate, because the situations were of such high strangeness in and of themselves. It seemed that the abductions went from actual alien/ufo events to staged events involving a branch of the military. It made me wonder: exactly what is the agenda of this shrouded military intervention?? The author certainly was brave to come forward with all of the details. I wish to thank the author's husband for reissuing this book. The older copies were going for unbelievably exorbitant prices, some over a thousand dollars! I hope it makes this important book available to a much wider audience. It is a book that is definitely worth reading especially because the material is, unfortunately, such a "fringe" topic. Remember, it is only one part of the entire alien/UFO phenomena that has been unfolding over this past century. This should be kept in mind while reading. My heart went out to this family :(

Good information based on Dr. Turners experience. Good read.

Into The Fringe by Dr. Karla Turner is a standard for all UFO/paranormal enthusiasts as are each of her other books. This book is #2 of a 3 book series including "Taken" as the first installment and "Masquerade of Angels" as the final. Into The Fringe follows her own personal experiences and those of her family members as they first realize they are a part of the abduction phenomena and all of the "fringe" elements that accompany such odd experiences. It paints a vivid portrait of what abductees go through as they first realize something is off and then each step and emotion as they travel further down the rabbit hole. Although I personally feel "Taken" was the best of these books, "Fringe" cannot be discounted. It is still well above the average UFO/Abduction tale and still very relevant and important today some 20 years after initially being published. Any serious ufo buffs should have all 3 if these books added to their collection and none of them will disappoint.

Over the years I've grown wary of books about the realm of the fantastic that carry the abbreviation Ph.D after their writers name. In case of Mrs. Turner it turns out she is a doctor of English language. What is the relevance of that piece of information when it comes to her recounting the experiences of her own and those of her circle? The writing is good, but to experience good writing I do not have to know the writer is a woman of letters. The fact she writes a book is good enough evidence for me.Into the fringe is in many ways a post-modern abduction book. The writer tells she is knows lots of books on the subject. In the course of the story she reads more of them. The more odd her family's life gets, the more sceptical about the conventional theories about the phenomenon at large she seems to become. And yet there is nothing in her narrative that could not have been cooked up by a fertile-but-psychotic personality after reading one or two books by Whitley Strieber. And even if Turner's observations are solid and truthfull, which I actually do not doubt, there is the ever present fact that practically all "evidence" she presents spring from sessions of regressive hypnosis. Regression hypnosis if known to throw the client into theta-state of the brain, which is one of the most creative, yet haunting states of the humanmind. Stories captured under this state are extremely prone to subconscious manipulation by the hypnotist or the clients themselves. So the stories thus obtained tend to be fantastic. It does not make them untrue, it makes them untestable and unfathomable.This book does not throw light on the phenomenon of abduction. It just poses more questions.

For bringing this book back into print. I had wanted to read it for some time & was delighted to see it offered again. This has to be THE BEST first-person book I've ever read about abduction (& I've read lots of them)! It was one of those can't-put-it-down types of book; in fact, I finished it in just 2 days. My only complaints: No table of contents, & I wish the author would've included the sketches she mentioned in the book. Otherwise - 10 stars!

Bought this and Taken. The same person "Re-issued" both books with the permission of the late Author's Husband. When I got the books? I sent them back Immediately . Horrible reprint 40 EXTRA PAGES because the "re-Issuer" of the books left at least 1 -1 1/4 inches from BOTH the bind to page end without any print. You can see it in the example. I wanted to buy both author's books and I'm glad someone is re-issuing them, but I could NOT handle the formatting mistakes. When you re-issue a book it needs to be BETTER than the Original Print. Not the case here. I give 1 star to the formatting.

OH DEAR ME!!!....yes itz well documented...but there is nothing in this to make you happy. It seems now in the expanding mass..that if not 'depressed'..then an' abductee'! I don't know if I should recommend it....not because it lacks cred' or worthiness..but because if you don't know ...then you may well be better off! Who do they choose and why??? In all the 40yrs I have followed this with avidity -.tho i don't go to conventions or mufo gatherings- There's so much I don't get... also...its so offensive because the human condition determines that we have much to contend with already...without being collected for private parties on astral yachts...with creepy lil fuggerz..doing a lot of unprovoked/unwelcome poking and probing..oh dear !

This book was written over 30 years ago, but still speaks to the present day. I believe most people on this planet have had some form of alien contact whether remembered or not. In the book the list of experiencers kept growing. We want to know what the truth is! I am hoping it will be known soon. Great read.

if what's printed in this book is true then we are in for one hell of a ride in our lifetime,illegal treaty's with aliens ,abductions and intrusions sanctioned by those who are meant to protect us. Eye opening to say the least and also very worrying. Writing this review and I'm only half way through the book. Say no more. Enjoy.

This is one of those books you keep as a collectors book on ufos. Well written and thought-provoking. I wish the author had the time to have written more books before her death, however, her investigative style makes for a believable read.Excellent.

Dr. Karla (also known as `Kandy') Turner was a professional academic (an English PhD) and educator who lived in Arizona and died of cancer on 10 January 1996 at the tragically young age of 48. For several years before her death, she worked to publicise the reality of the alien abduction phenomenon to academia and to a wider public audience. She was a popular and respected public speaker on the subject - you can find videos of her lectures on the web - and between 1992 and 1996 published three books about how this intrusive phenomenon had affected her family.`Into the Fringe', published in 1992, was her first book and chronicles the process whereby she and her family became aware that abduction by alien entities was the likely origin of all the strange events which had been happening to them. These included multiple close-proximity sightings of UFOs, episodes of missing time (some of several hours' duration), night-time visitations, odd and often dramatic patterns of body scarring and various poltergeist-type activity experienced by different members of the family, especially by her husband Casey and son David. It's essentially a narrative written in the first person about the journey from puzzlement and ignorance to some understanding of what might be happening and their eventual reluctant acknowledgement that the abduction phenomenon, reported in such consistent detail by so many other people, was the only explanation to fit the data and that in their case the fit was an exact one.ITF details how Turner sought help from Barbara Bartholic, Oklahoma-based long-time UFO investigator and colleague of Jacques Vallee, to help understand the phenomenon in more depth. Bartholic used some hypnosis to aid memory recovery and both Karla and Casey had several such sessions with her.One of the author's most controversial claims was that the US Government, or elements within the Government, were actively interested in the phenomenon and occasionally abducted known alien-abductees in order to glean information from them, using drugs to control them and wipe their memories. She provides some detail, in the final chapters, of how they became convinced that these so-called `MIL-ABS' are, or rather were in the 1990s, a reality. The book also describes interactions with some human-looking entities (`hybrids?) and how abductees have recognised each other in the `everyday' world. The author did not believe these alien intrusions to be in any way benign, and was definitely not any kind of `New-Ager.'The 2014 edition:Since the turn of the millennium, all three of Karla Turner's books have been in great demand on the second-hand book market and almost impossible to find except with high price tags. Finding even a `fair' paperback copy of ITF or `Taken' for less than US$50 has been almost impossible, with `fine' or `like new' copies demanding upwards of US$200.Following last year's welcome re-issue of `Taken', this new 2014 edition of ITF from Wordmean Publishing is welcome not only in making this great work once again affordable for the average reader but in correcting the typos and grammatical errors in the original text, restoring this classic to its rightful place among the great works of the genre. Cask J. Thomson deserves the credit of initiating this project, with the active participation of Karla's widower Elton editing the text.This 2014 edition of ITF has 13 untitled chapters running to 222 pages (a slightly lower page count than the 1992 original) including a short epilogue. There is no bibliography and no index.As in the 2013 edition of `Taken' Elton introduces the book with this paragraph:"For the sake of clarification Karla Turner passed away after a long struggle with breast cancer and underwent breast removal surgery and chemotherapy. Despite the common misconceptions it is unlikely that she was targeted by an individual, group or organization attempting to silence her."It's a pity that Elton and the publishers felt the need to include this caution at the beginning of the 2014 edition, but evidently the antics of conspiracy theorists over the past 18 years have made it necessary.The new edition is in paperback only; it looks like we'll never see a hardcover edition of this classic.Question for the publishers: are we going to see a re-issue of `Masquerade of Angels'? During my correspondence with Ted Rice earlier this year, he informed me he has twice the amount of material still unpublished as featured in Turner's original book. How about an edition containing more details of Ted's story?

Interesting read.