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    What Was It?

    By Fitz-James O'Brien

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    "What was it?" is a brief but intense horror story. We are in New York and the owner of a Boarding house decides to move from the 26th Street Bleeker street: does a great deal since the place where the lady you are setting up has the reputation of being haunted by shadowy presences. For a while nothing happens out of the ordinary, but one night, after two men were perhaps a little too smoked opium, something happens ....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFitz James O'brien
    Release dateSep 29, 2015
    ISBN9788893155816
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    Fitz-James O'Brien

    Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-62) was an Irish-born American writer best known for his Gothic short stories, which are now seen as precursors of modern science fiction

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