Alan baked

In chapter 4 a lot that was hinted at before is fully explained.
Alan got fished out by the guy who runs the local psychiatric clinic for artists, and when Alan woke up he tell him that he has been a patient there and everything has been a delusion. This of course is a lie an Alan dosen't believe it for a moment, despite being heavily sedated. Alan meets up with 2 heavy meal singer who had also been manipulated by the darkness and they tell him that the answers he's looking for are back at the farm. The darkness then attacks the place and in the chaos Alan discovers that the doctor is actually using the clinic as a front to harness the power artists get through the dark force, so he can shape reality.

Alan escapes and after another long slog though forest, and an awesome heavy metal stage show, finds the farm house and learns that the crazy lamp lady (who knew the original writer) held the key to stopping the darkness and saving Alan's wife. Also in a drunken dream Alan remembers what happened during the missing week. After the fight between Alan and his wife, the old woman grabbed the wife and pulled her down into the lake, Alan dived after her but couldn't find her. The old woman then appeared before Alan and told him that if he wrote a story where the wife came back then it would become true. So Alan wrote like crazy for the week straight and along the way the old woman tweaked the story so that it would describe the darkness getting stronger. Eventual Alan realized he was being manulated so he re-wrote some of the story so that he was the protagonist and described his escape, using the spirit of the former writer in a hard diving suit as his rescuer.

Alan then wakes up to find the FBI agent pointing a gun at him.