Fitz James O’brien 
What Was It? 

'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 ….