# An 'impassioned defense' of Edgar Allan Poe — retained record

> Retained news record from news:semafor.

Canonical: https://highsignal.app/data/records/1a8953279f4be70b

[← sources](https://highsignal.app/data)


source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:semafor)  published 2026-09-29 14:55 ingested 2026-09-30 03:01

[original source ↗](https://www.semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/an-impassioned-defense-of-edgar-allan-poe)

## retained text



```
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.
```



document fetched 2026-09-30 03:01 · canonical https://semafor.com/article/09/29/2026/an-impassioned-defense-of-edgar-allan-poe