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What Was It?

by Fitz-James O’Brien · read by Tony J Martin · 37 min

Something strange is happening at a boarding house in New York. The lodgers believe it is haunted.

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Something strange is happening at a boarding house in New York. The lodgers believe it is haunted. Then one night the narrator is attacked in the dark by a creature he cannot see. He fights it, ties it down, and finds that he is holding something with a body, a pulse and a mouth, yet nothing at all to look at. Fitz-James O'Brien's 1859 ghost story is built on a single question, and it never lets go of it. Read by Tony J Martin. Thirty-seven minutes of slow dread.

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Details

Length: 37 min
Narration: Solo narrator
Format: Unabridged audiobook
Released: January 2026
Publisher: Academy Voices
Language: English
ISBN: 9798295394577

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This edition of What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien is narrated by Tony J Martin.

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