Burning Bright in 1942, but, of the three, "Burning Bright" was the most complete attempt at the form. Steinbeck believed that he may have been the first person to attempt the style. At the time of writing the introduction, in which he explained his intentions, he believed it was a form that would bear further experimentation. In a continuation of the experiment, a stage production was planned to open at the same time the book was published. The original title of the book, "In the Forests of the Night", was a line from "The Tyger" by William Blake, but complaints that it
In the Forests of the Night on May 11, 1999, about a month after she signed her contract. It was later released in paperback on May 8, 2000. After the release of her Kiesha'ra Series, Atwater-Rhodes revealed that the first four novels she wrote, "In the Forests of the Night", "Demon in My View", "Shattered Mirror" and "Midnight Predator", were part of the Den of Shadows and "In the Forests of the Night" was republished in paperback with a new cover to mark the series in July 2009, while all four books were released in an omnibus called "The Den of Shadows Quartet" on August 11,