Darkness Becomes Bright is an unflinching exploration of horror, the human condition, and how Edgar Allan Poe's haunted legacy might keep us company in moments of darkness.'A wonderfully engaging account of Poe’s troubled life . . . Nimble, generous, brimming with insight' - SARAH WATERS'Emily Ogden does not flinch from the obscure and sometimes horrifying recesses of Poe’s psychosis' - SUE PRIDEAUX

**“Engaging . . . Ogden is both incisive and eloquent.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating and intimate inquiry into Edgar Allan Poe’s shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work—and why we are drawn to darkness in art**Since Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 1849, his stories and poems have captivated millions of readers around the world. Nearly two centuries later, why do we continue to descend into the darkness of his imagination—and of the genre...

Two women, bound together by opposite personalities, friendship, love and family—until motherhood rips them apart.From Jenni Ogden, author of bestselling novel A Drop in the Ocean (Gold Nautilus Award for Fiction) comes a compelling family saga set in the Australian Tropics and spanning the 1960s to 1990s.Her mother dead from a drug overdose, thirteen-year-old Olivia is rescued by Cathie Tulloch, her mother's friend throughout the years they were h...

A daughter who cries Who am I?A mother who can't tell her…A hurricane called Katrina…A family secret exposed…An island at the bottom of the world."Jenni Ogden is a beautiful writer. In her newest, a tale of domestic suspense, Ogden tells the story of a neurosurgeon bedeviled by her own sophisticated brain and the memories of a long-ago tragedy that still has...

When the Gods Were Silent - SynopsisIn the ancient world of Mesopotamia, where fear ruled the hearts of men and priests spoke in the name of silent gods, one young woman is chosen for sacrifice.Ama is condemned to die in the waters of the Euphrates so the city of Uruk may be "purified" and saved from drought, famine, and divine wrath. But when Lugal, a hunter who refuses to bow before fear, rescues her from the temple of the High Priest Naram-Sin, their escape ignites a dan...

Ethelda, youngest and dearest of the Moon's daughters, is betrothed to Dorion, son of the Sun, and claims the bride's traditional gift: a honeymoon on Earth. Her mother grants it with dread, and the journey becomes a chain of fairy tales — the caves of the ocean, fairies changed into mocking-birds, the rainbow sisters, a jewelled beach, a lost ocean — until the bride is carried off captive and the Sun Prince has to rescue her. Edith Ogden Harrison wrote original fairy tales for American ch...

GOLD: 2024 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS), BEST FICTION, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND-AOTEAROA/PACIFIC RIMGOLD: 2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS YA 13 - 19+ READERSSILVER: 2024 READER'S FAVORITE BOOK AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTIONSEMI-FINALIST 2024 THE BOOKLIFE PRIZEWINNER: 4TH ANNUAL ZIBBY AWARDS (i) BEST BOOK FOR BEST FRIEND & (ii) BEST BOOK FOR ANIMAL LOVERWINNER...

Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for simple but classically informed choices that resonate profoundly today. The book crystallizes what Wharton found to be troubling in Americans’ enthusiasm f...

"Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises" by Donald Ogden Stewart is a witty and insightful exploration of social etiquette and behavior. The book serves as a humorous yet practical guide for navigating the complexities of social interactions, offering advice on how to conduct oneself gracefully in various situations. Stewart's sharp observations and clever anecdotes make the text both entertaining and informative, appealing to readers who wish to refine the...

Freud said dreams were the "royal road" to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedelic experience, but Frank Ogden shepherded over a thousand people's experiences. What is presented is the howling unconscious released from the normal chemical constraints that restrict it. Written in the simple, but vivid style Frank popularized in his bestselling, The Last Book You'll Ever Read, Shamanic Graffiti presents an alternative histo...

A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing."In On Not Knowing , a book of seventeen brief and edifying essays, [Ogden] uses her knowledge to illuminate the 'dimness' in which she spends most of her time: the messy uncertainty of daily life, which she has recently begun to spend with her young twin boys. Her illumination does not dispel this dimness, but instead casts a halo around i...

This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 p...