What Was It?
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Overview:
- Title: What Was It?
- Author: Fitz-James O'Brien
- Year: 1859
- Type: Short Fiction
- Series: Harry Escott
Variant Titles:
- 1859. What Was It? A Mystery
- 1896. What Was It?
- 1899. What Was It?
- 1918. What Was It?
- 1936. Qu'était-ce ?
- 1950. Qu'était-ce ?
- 1958. ¿Qué era aquello?
- 1960. Qu'était-ce ?
- 1965. Qu'était-ce ?
- 1971. Ce-a fost asta?
- 1972. ¿Qué era?
- 1972. Qu'était-ce ?
- 1973. Was war es?
- 1984. Das Phantom
- 1985. Was war das?
- 1985. Was war es?
- 2010. What Was It?
- 2013. What Was It? A Mystery
Editions/Publications:
- Unknown. Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1949 (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, All-Fiction Field, Inc., $0.25, 132 pages, pulp, MAGAZINE)
- Unknown. The World's Greatest Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Barnes & Noble Books, ISBN-10: 0760754659, $7.95, xi+528 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Magazine of Horror, May 1964 (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Health Knowledge, Inc., $0.50, 132 pages, digest, MAGAZINE)
- Unknown. A Fabulous Formless Darkness (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Grafton, ISBN-10: 0586213783, £4.99, 704 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. A Century of Science Fiction (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Pan Books, 6/-, 446 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Beaufort Books, ISBN-10: 082530184X, $17.95, 249 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction Firsts (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Barnes & Noble Books, ISBN-10: 0760702543, $6.98, 249 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. A Century of Science Fiction (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Dell, $0.75, 384 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Invisible Men (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ballantine Books, $0.35, 158 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Dark Descent (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Tor, ISBN-10: 0312930356, $29.95, 1011 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Dark Descent (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Tor / BOMC, $12.95, 1011 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Dark Descent (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Tor, ISBN-10: 0312862172, $27.95, 1011 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Gaslight Tales of Terror (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Fontana, ISBN-10: 0006141498, £0.50, 191 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Invisible Men (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ballantine Bal-Hi, $0.50, 158 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. A Fabulous Formless Darkness (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Tor, ISBN-10: 0812509676, $4.99, xiv+585 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. A Fabulous Formless Darkness (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, HarperCollins (UK), ISBN-10: 0246137533, £7.99, 422 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. A Fabulous Formless Darkness (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, HarperCollins (UK), ISBN-10: 0246137525, £14.99, 422 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Modern Library, $2.95, xix+1080 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Uninvited Guests: Thirteen Unwelcome Visitors (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, William Kimber, ISBN-10: 0718305264, £7.50, 191 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Ghosts, Castles, and Victims: Studies in Gothic Terror (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Fawcett Crest, $1.50, 576 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Masque of the Red Death (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Panther, 3/6, 192 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. A Century of Science Fiction (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Simon & Schuster / SFBC, $1.90, 352 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Monster Festival (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vanguard Press, $4.95, 286 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. American Supernatural Tales (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Penguin Books (US), ISBN-10: 9780143105046, $16.00, xxxiii+477 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Campfire Chillers (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, East Woods Press, ISBN-10: 091478823X, $7.95, 190 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Carroll & Graf, ISBN-10: 0881845906, $8.95, xi+654 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Campfire Chillers (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, East Woods Press, ISBN-10: 091478823X, 190 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Chilling and Killing (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN-10: 0395262879, $10.95, xiii+337 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Famous Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Thomas Y. Crowell, $1.25, x+302 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Ghost Stories, September 1926 (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Constructive Pub. Corp., $0.25, 100 pages, bedsheet, MAGAZINE)
- Unknown. The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Robinson, ISBN-10: 1854870556, £4.99, 654 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Famous Modern Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, G. P. Putnam's Sons, $3.50, xxii+419 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Arrow Book of Horror Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Arrow Books, 3/6, 255 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Horror Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Paul Elek, 3/6, 255 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Herbert Jenkins, 7/6, 399 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Book Club Associates, 832 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Where Nightmares Are (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mayflower-Dell, 3/6, 174 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Where Nightmares Are (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mayflower, ISBN-10: 0583115861, £0.20, 174 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Where Nightmares Are (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Severn House, ISBN-10: 0727808745, £6.95, 173 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Haunters and the Haunted & Other Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Corgi, 2/6, 158 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Bracken Books, ISBN-10: 1858911370, £5.99, 611 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Anthology of Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Tiger Books International, ISBN-10: 185501503X, £9.95, 528 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Spine-Chillers: Unforgettable Tales of Terror (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Doubleday, ISBN-10: 0385097204, viii+396 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Gollancz, ISBN-10: 0575023902, £5.75, 336 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Faber and Faber, ISBN-10: 0571163114, £17.50, 429 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Dodd, Mead & Co., $2.00, vii+365 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Tales of Terror (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Small, Maynard & Co., $2.50, 224 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. American Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Houghton Mifflin, $2.50, xiv+287 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Weirdies: A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Franklin Watts, ISBN-10: 0851664016, £1.95, 242 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Supernatural in Fiction (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, McGraw-Hill, ISBN-10: 0070334978, $3.96, [iv]+313 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Ghosts, Ghouls and Other Nuisances (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Seven Seas Publishers, 2/6, 272 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Beaver Book of Horror Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Beaver Books, ISBN-10: 0600203832, £0.95, 157 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Herbert Jenkins, 3/6, 399 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Hammond, Hammond & Co., ISBN-10: 0242785514, 832 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Stories of All Nations: One Hundred Sixty Complete Stories from the Literatures of All Periods and Countries (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Tudor Publishing Company, 1132 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Modern Library, ISBN-10: 0679601287, $25.95, xix+1034 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, MetroBooks, ISBN-10: 1586637363, $12.98, xii+655 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Modern Library, ISBN-10: 0679601287, $21.00, xix+1034 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Faber and Faber, ISBN-10: 0571167926, £9.99, 429 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Barnes & Noble Books, ISBN-10: 0760703523, $9.98, xi+654 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Modern Library, ISBN-10: 0679601287, $25.95, xix+1034 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, James R. Osgood and Co., lxii+485 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
- Unknown. Tales of Mystery: Startling Stories of the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Hutchinson, 7/6, xii+287 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. An Omnibus of American Mysteries (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Juniper Press, $2.95, 383 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Ghost Story Omnibus (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Dodd, Mead & Co., $2.00, vii+365+292 pages, Hardcover, Omnibus)
- Unknown. The World's Greatest Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Magpie Books, ISBN-10: 1841198579, £12.99, xi+528 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Modern Library, ISBN-10: 0394604466, $9.95, xix+1034 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Collected Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Albert & Charles Boni, $2.00, xiii+240 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
- Unknown. The Diamond Lens with Other Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Charles Scribner's Sons, xx+337 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
- Unknown. What Was It? and Other Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ward & Downey, 177 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
- Unknown. American Mystery Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Oxford University Press, USA, xi+232 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Tales of the Uncanny (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Panther, 2/6, 127 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Where Nightmares Are (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, David Bruce & Watson, ISBN-10: 085127014X, 174 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. 50 Great American Short Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Bantam Books, ISBN-10: 0553145282, $2.95, x+502 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. H. P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Fall River Press, ISBN-10: 9781435162815, $7.98, 760 pages, Hardcover, Omnibus)
- Unknown. Classic Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Dover Publications, ISBN-10: 0486404307, $2.00, viii+164 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Tales of Terror and the Supernatural: A Classic Collection (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Leopard, ISBN-10: 1858913144, [7]+611 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Masque of the Red Death (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, , 192 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The World's Greatest Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Barnes & Noble Books, ISBN-10: 0760769893, xi+528 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Famous Psychic and Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Blue Ribbon Books, $0.98, xii+305+x+302 pages, Hardcover, Omnibus)
- Unknown. Weirdies Weirdies Weirdies: A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Franklin Watts, ISBN-10: 0531026833, $5.95, 242 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Hammond, Hammond & Co., 832 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Hutchinson, ISBN-10: 0091497205, £8.95, 832 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Fantastic Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, John Calder, ISBN-10: 0714536172, £4.95, 149 pages, Hardcover, Collection)
- Unknown. What Was It? (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Frank Hallman & The Oliphant Press, [23] pages, Trade Paperback, Chapter Book)
- Unknown. The Beaver Book of Horror Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Beaver Books, ISBN-10: 0600203832, £1.25, 157 pages, Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Books for Libraries Press, ISBN-10: 0836940792, vii+365 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Robinson, ISBN-10: 1854870556, £5.99, 654 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- Unknown. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, Hammond, Hammond & Co., ISBN-10: 0242785514, 832 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Famous Modern Ghost Stories (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, G. P. Putnam's Sons, xxii+419 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- Unknown. Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy (Unknown, Fitz-James O'Brien, The British Library, ISBN-10: 9780712352635, £9.99, 296 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- 2005 . Famous Modern Ghost Stories (2005, Fitz-James O'Brien, Project Gutenberg, $0.00, ebook, Anthology)
- 2007 . American Supernatural Tales (2007, Fitz-James O'Brien, Penguin Books (US), ISBN-10: 9780143105046, $17.00, xxxiv+477 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- 2007 . American Supernatural Tales (2007, Fitz-James O'Brien, Penguin Books (US), ISBN-10: 9781440649400, ebook, Anthology)
- 2009 . Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 1 (2009, Fitz-James O'Brien, LibriVox, $0.00, digital audio download, Anthology)
- 2010 . The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010, Fitz-James O'Brien, Penguin Books, ISBN-10: 9780141442365, £10.99, xliv+416 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- 2012 . The Big Book of Ghost Stories (2012, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books, ISBN-10: 9780307474490, $25.00, xii+833 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- 2012 . The Big Book of Ghost Stories (2012, Fitz-James O'Brien, Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books, ISBN-10: 9780345806000, $12.99, pages, ebook, Anthology)
- 2013 . The Second Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Ghost Stories (2013, Fitz-James O'Brien, Wildside Press, ISBN-10: 9781434447319, $0.99, 538 pages, ebook, Anthology)
- 2013 . The Occult Detective Megapack (2013, Fitz-James O'Brien, Wildside Press, ISBN-10: 9781434443076, $0.99, ebook, Anthology)
- 2013 . American Supernatural Tales (2013, Fitz-James O'Brien, Penguin Books (US), ISBN-10: 9780143122371, $25.00, xliv+467 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- 2014 . Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (2014, Fitz-James O'Brien, Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 9780199685431, £14.99, xlii+510 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
- 2015 . Dreamscapes Into Darkness (2015, Fitz-James O'Brien, Firbolg Publishing, ISBN-10: 9781507637746, $12.99, 390 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- 2015 . Dreamscapes Into Darkness (2015, Fitz-James O'Brien, Firbolg Publishing, $5.99, ebook, Anthology)
- 2017 . Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction (2017, Fitz-James O'Brien, Dover Publications, ISBN-10: 9780486808376, $14.95, xii+337 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- 2019 . Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy (2019, Fitz-James O'Brien, The British Library, ISBN-10: 9780712352635, £8.99, 296 pages, Trade Paperback, Anthology)
- 2020 . The Big Book of Ghost Stories (2020, Fitz-James O'Brien, Highbridge / Recorded Books, ISBN-10: 9781684576845, digital audio download, Anthology)
- 2021 . Famous Modern Ghost Stories (2021, Fitz-James O'Brien, Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN-10: 9781504064873, $2.99, ebook, Anthology)