In the Forests of the Night
1999 Cover
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| Author | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes |
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| Original title | White Wine |
| Cover artist | Eric Dinyer |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Den of Shadows |
| Genre | Gothic, Horror, Vampire, Teen |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press, a division of Random House |
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Publication date
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May 11, 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 147 pp (first edition hardcover) |
| ISBN | (first edition hardcover) |
| Followed by | Demon in My View (2000) |
In the Forests of the Night is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, and published in 1999. Originally entitled White Wine, she wrote it at the age of thirteen. The book was published on May 11, 1999, about a month after she turned fifteen. It is the first novel in the Den of Shadows. It tells the story of a three-hundred-year-old vampire named Risika and her struggles throughout her life, both before and after she was transformed. The novel is told in first-person narrative by the protagonist, Risika. It was well received by critics.
The title refers William Blake's poem "The Tyger", which appears in the beginning of the book.
Atwater-Rhodes' second book, Demon in My View, was published in 2000 when she was 16 and is the sequel to In the Forests of the Night. Persistence of Memory, published in 2008, makes mention and appearance of the main character's brother.
According to Atwater-Rhodes' official site, The Den of Shadows, In the Forests of the Night is one of seven novels that she had finished writing and is only the first she ever published. The inspiration for the novel came from an assignment she received in the seventh grade when her best friend Jessica had chosen "The Tyger" for the assignment. The character of Risika was taken from the brief mention in Atwater-Rhodes' unpublished novel, Red Wine. She began working on the novel in 1997, under the title White Wine, and during the writing process with the novel, two incidents had accord, Atwater-Rhodes began suffering from writer's block and then her computer crashed from a virus during the months of July and August. In the original manuscript the character of Ather was to play the antagonist but after the loss of her computer and having to retype the manuscript it was changed to Aubrey, another character in the novel. She finished the novel in August of that year and spent the next four months revising the manuscript. She then sent the manuscript in on December 31, 1997. In mid-February 1998 she met her agent, Tom Hart, who later called her and informed her that Random House would publish the novel on her fourteenth birthday; however, the novel was pushed back and released a little over a year later in May 1999.
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