The Tale of the Body Thief this feeling to William Blake's poem The Tyger, which is quoted piecemeal throughout the entire novel: At the end of the story, Lestat realizes with horror that he must have been the "tiger" of his visions. In 2007, "The Tale of the Body Thief" was rumored to be adapted into film as United Artists was interested in purchasing the film rights to the novel. Rice announced via her Facebook profile on February 7, 2012 that Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's film production company, Imagine Entertainment, had optioned the motion picture rights to the novel. Lee Patterson was to have written
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,