Harriet Prescott Spofford is the author of The Moonstone Mass and Others.
The Moonstone Mass and Others,jessica Amanda Salmonson has now rescued Spofford’s weird tales and poems, collecting them together in one volume: a project which the author herself pursued in the last years of her life, but which came to nothing. In addition, Salmonson has written a lengthy introduction, in which she draws on extensive research to examine the life and ghostly fiction of a woman who was, in her day, one of the most respected and popular authors in America.