The Amber Gods and Other Stories - Harriet Prescott Spofford

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The Amber Gods and Other Stories, Harriet Prescott Spofford, 1863, United States, SHORT STORIES

"When Harriet Prescott Spofford first submitted her work in the mid-nineteenth century, the editor at the Atlantic Monthly refused to believe that an unworldly woman from New England had written such eerie and unsettling stories. Her style, though ornate by our twentieth-century standards, enhances the stories' atmosphere, like heavy, Baroque furniture in a large and creepy house..."

(E.B., p. 179)