Listen "What Was It? A Mystery - Unpleasant Dreams 62"
Episode Synopsis
Do you like stories of terror and horror? You are in for a treat this week as Cassandra Harold tells us the short story, "What Was It? A Mystery".
Written by Fitz-James O'Brien and first published in Harper's Magazine in 1859. It is in the Public Domain.
This story is among the earliest modern tales to include the concept of "invisibility," predating H.G. Wells's 1897 work, "The Invisible Man."
Enjoy!
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Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:
https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain
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Written by Fitz-James O'Brien and first published in Harper's Magazine in 1859. It is in the Public Domain.
This story is among the earliest modern tales to include the concept of "invisibility," predating H.G. Wells's 1897 work, "The Invisible Man."
Enjoy!
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Jim Harold Media LLC respects writers' intellectual property. All fictional stories on Unpleasant Dreams are in the U.S. public domain, published before 1928. For more on public domain and copyright, visit the Cornell University Library's guide on public domain:
https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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