Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921), one of nineteenth-century America's most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind.

Matthew Wynn Sivils is a professor of English at Iowa State University, USA, and the author/editor of eight books, including 'Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature' (2017) and 'American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847' (2014).

1. Introduction; 2. 'Sir Rohan's Ghost. A Romance.'; 3. Explanatory Notes; 4. Appendix.