Darkness Becomes Bright by Emily Ogden.
Not quite biography, not quite memoir, not quite literary criticism, this book amounts to “an impassioned defense” of Edgar Allan Poe, a New York Times critic says. In Poe’s writing, Ogden argues, “horror yields beauty. And unlike horror itself, which is intolerable, the art of horror is more than tolerable; it glows.”
Ogden herself “is both incisive and eloquent,” and the book is “a slim, engaging work of literary history and criticism.” Buy Darkness Becomes Bright from your local bookstore.