Martin Durant, a police officer and principal character of the story, chases two murderers into an alien forest where intrusion is restrained by terror and forbidden by vigorously enforced U.S. law. He kills one murderer while the other flees to face the terror of the forest. Intensely curious he resolves to remain in the forest, despite direct orders to leave, to try and discover why its inhabitants are so feared. He shortly observes that the feared aliens glow in iridescent colors, induce paralysis and psychosis in humans and gradually disappear. Durant learns the hard way that his own emotions, amplified, distorted and reflected back to him, are the sources of the glow and the paralysis. He realizes that chance and a rash but now irreversible decision have forced him into a dilemma far beyond his understanding. He has also reached the conclusion that the aliens are not the malevolently intelligent creatures human superstition has made them. But now he neither can return home nor...

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