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What Was It? by Fitz-James O’Brien

What Was It?: Audiobook

by Fitz-James O’Brien · narrated by Tony J. Martin · unabridged · 2026

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What Was It? audiobook runs 0.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Tony J. Martin (about 0.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

0.6listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2026released
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What our data says

  • At 0.6 hours, it is shorter than 86% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Tony J. Martin

Tony J. Martin narrates 17 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 19 hours in all.

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About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

224 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2024 recording read by Daniel Allen runs 0.1 hours shorter (0.5 hours).

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

What Was It? is an audiobook by Fitz-James O’Brien: a 0.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Tony J. Martin, released January 23, 2026, on the Horror and Classics (Literature) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
0.6 hrs
Narrated by
Tony J. Martin
Released
January 23, 2026
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Horror, Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9798295394577

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the What Was It? audiobook?

What Was It? runs 0.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.4 hours.

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Who narrates What Was It??

What Was It? is narrated by Tony J. Martin.