This book presents the author's journey back to one special summer at age nine to search for the hidden location of a secret school, its classmates, and its night-time alien teachers.

Author Whitley Strieber in his book, The Secret School, recounts one extraordinary childhood summer he spent attending a secret school in the woods near his home in San Antonio, Texas. Though forgotten for more than 40 years, these midnight forays unconsciously prepared him for the encounters he revealed in his previous three books.

Jumping between age outside view and an adult's hindsight, Strieber vividly recreates an adventure that stretches across decades, landing at the place that his new life started when he met extraterrestrials. Moving rapidly from revelation to revelation, the secret school recounts the nine lessons that changed Strieber's life.

Strieber began probing some of his childhood memories concerning a secret school in the woods. He reached a time in his life when he began asking himself how much of it was real and how much of it was fantasy. Strieber recalled being fascinated with staring at the stars in with wondering about Egypt. He was fascinated with the Sphinx. He set out to find the lost path through the woods and the secret school expert.

Strieber describes a fascinating moment when he found himself going back in time. He was in Houston when suddenly he heard the clip-clop of horses and saw a wagon go by.

After the incident was over, he checked the newspaper collection tried to correlate his experience to the late 1800s. He believes he experienced time travel. Strieber's lessons in the secret school or fascinating.