Premium Only Content
What Was It by Fitz-James O'Brien
It is July 1854. Harry has just arrived No.28 Twenty-sixth Street, in New York City. It was built some fifteen or twenty years earlier by a well-known New York merchant, who five years earlier threw the commercial world into convulsions by a stupendous bank fraud. He escaped to Europe, and died not long after of a broken heart. Almost immediately after the news of his decease reached America, and was verified, the report spread in Twenty-sixth Street that No. 28 was haunted.
Before it was turned into a boarding-house, the caretaker and his wife, placed there by the house agent into whose hands it had passed for purposes of renting or sale, declared that they were troubled with unnatural noises. Doors were opened without any visible agency. The remnants of furniture scattered through the various rooms were, during the night, piled one upon the other by unknown hands. Invisible feet passed up and down the stairs in broad daylight, accompanied by the rustle of unseen silk dresses, and the gliding of viewless hands along the massive balusters. The care taker and his wife declared that they would live there no longer.
The house remained untenanted for three years before Mrs. Moffat took over, turining it into a boarding-house. And after spending a month there, Harry was forced to acknowledge that nothing in the remotest degree approaching the supernatural had manifested itself until one night...
What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien (31st December 1828 - 6th April 1862) was first published in "Harper's" in March 1859.
It was the first well-shaped short story of a tangible but invisible being, and the prototype of de Maupassant's Horla.
With Peter Marinker [Harry Crown], Blane Fairman [Doctor Stephen Hammond], and Helen Horton [Mrs. Moffatt].
28/06/1980
Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio?
Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows
Donations via
Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98
patreon
https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio
Locals
https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio
Or Direct via
https://paypal.me/oldtuberadio
Old Tube Radio can also be found on other platforms
UGETube https://ugetube.com/@oldtuberadio98
Rumble https://rumble.com/user/Oldtuberadio
Thank you
and
Please don't forget to subscribe
Thank You
-
LIVE
Scottish Viking Gaming
8 hours ago🔴LIVE | SUNDAY FUNDAY | Jump into my Sons of the Forest Game | DOO EET NOWWA!
1,003 watching -
24:01
Winston Marshall
4 days agoThe TRUTH About The UK Farmer Protest What No One Is Talking About...
51.1K145 -
3:21:56
Tate Speech by Andrew Tate
12 hours agoEMERGENCY MEETING EPISODE 93 - ME TOO!
208K140 -
3:21:42
FRENCHY4185
8 hours agoPRESTIGE AND CAMO GRIND : BLACK OPS 6
49.5K -
1:29:47
Real Coffee With Scott Adams
8 hours agoEpisode 2669 CWSA 11/24/24
67.6K27 -
13:52
Hershberger's Kitchen
19 hours agoTwo Delicious Dip and Spread Recipes to Try, Inspirational Thought
66.4K5 -
3:41:05
Sacred Sage
10 hours ago $4.46 earnedDaz3D: Attempting to Finish Zoe Conversation!
51.6K5 -
8:14:24
OneRandomDolly
8 hours ago[Stream #19 ] Gaming, Chatting, you know the drill!
64.1K5 -
11:07
TimcastIRL
1 day agoElon Musk Suggests He’ll BUY MSNBC, Joe Rogan Will REPLACE Rachel Maddow
85.5K110 -
34:24
The Rubin Report
1 day agoFormer CEO: The Aftermath of Vice Media & What's Next for Mainstream Media | Shane Smith
98.9K73