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About this audiobook
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
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
January 2026
Publisher
Academy Voices
Language
English
ISBN
9798295394577
Questions
Who narrates the What Was It? audiobook?
This edition of What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien is narrated by Tony J Martin.
How long is the What Was It? audiobook?
It runs 37 min, unabridged, so you hear the complete text.
Is this audiobook narrated by a real person?
Yes. Every Academy Voices audiobook is Certified Human Voice: performed start to finish by a real narrator.
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