The Lost Room by Fitz James O'Brien
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2023
- Thanks to Jay for recommending this story.
Fitz James O'Brien (1828 - April 6, 1862) was an Irish-American writer, best known for his works in the genre of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Cork, Ireland, he migrated to the United States in 1852 after squandering his inheritance.
O'Brien settled in New York City and began his writing career which took off with his contributions to Harper's Magazine and the New York Saturday Press. He quickly gained popularity for his strange and imaginative stories. His most recognized works include "The Diamond Lens" and "What Was It? A Mystery", both of which are considered early contributions to the science fiction genre.
While O'Brien's literary career was on the rise, the American Civil War broke out. He joined the Union Army in 1861 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Despite his talents as a writer, his military career was short-lived. In February 1862, he was injured in a skirmish and contracted tetanus from his wounds. He died on April 6, 1862, leaving behind a significant body of work that continues to be admired for its innovative and imaginative qualities.
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My twin is visiting and I played this for her. She said you could read her the dictionary and she would listen.
Does sum Tony's auditory talents up "in a nutshell"
Best narrator Ive ever had the privilege to listen to. Well said.
I could do the dictionary
That's how I feel about Tony
I won’t lie I have searched everywhere,but his storytelling is kind of exceptional…,it doesn’t matter the subject matter(I personally won’t read such books)but,he just makes it make sense in a neutral way,contemporary way
I think this Irish ghost story writer like another ghost story writer Ambrose Bierce served in the American Civil War. Looking forward to this. What a way to start the weekend..Happy listening everybody where ever you are in the world. Looking forward to the usual phenomenal narration.
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Interesting. Did he stay in the States?
Cheers
@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz Fitz James O'Brien died of wounds after a battle in 1862. Ambrose Bierce served in the American Civil War also and was a ghost story writer up there with Edgar Allen Poe I am very serious when I state the next piece of information. Bierce believed in dimensions and gateways into parallel universes. He went down to Mexico to find one and literally disappeared off the face of the Earth. Obviously his date of birth is given in biographies and by scholars but there is literally no actual date of death given for him.
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That story was a lot scarier than Ambrose Bierce's stuff.
Never heard of this author or the story before. Great story and your narration brought it to life.
I'm sad and angry about what happened to you and Amazon.
It's unbelievable. I will always support you in every way I can.
You're a fantastic storyteller and I listen to everything that you post. Thank You For Being There ❤
Thanks for listening. I honestly mean that
what happened?
@@vanillasuncherriesyet Amazon happily sells scam products like plug in "electricity savers", fake 512GB TF\SD cards, and there's no place to report scams on the entire site.
Amazon recently removed my ability to review products (and deleted all my painstaking existing reviews) for using the word "naff", which, apparently, in the US, in the 1950's, was slang for f**k.
Amazon's policies and behavior are skewed towards protecting the "big guys", and screw the little guy, because the little guy doesn't make them as much easy profit.
That's disgusting what they did to Mr. Walker.
@@fjklfdasdf.. yes, what indeed?
Getting ready to immerse self in your reading Tony. Night night people ❤
Sleep tight 😴
Hi, Tony. Great choice today. A bit of the writing reminds me of Wilde talking about Gray's descent into sensualism.
I also enjoy your comments at the end of the reading. But my scrambled brain is now thinking of the Hound of the Baskervilles needing flea powder and a de-worming tablet! ❤
well it does
I LOVE We have always lived at the castle. Hope you will one day record it.
I recently listened to it, and it was narrated by a young woman. She did a phenomenal job. She WAS wholely the character narrator, she put on a very young sounding southern accent and made my first listen to that story very enjoyable.
I love the passage about the piano harboring the soul of the music!❤🎉
Thank you so much for this and I got some catching up to do….. you have been busy Tony!💛
Always a lovely “Notification”, a Tony Walker’s Ghost Story Channel upload; thoroughly, excited, as I am unaware of this writer. Off I go…
Thanks Tony, excited to listen to this tonight, 👏💛
Every night, my first stop on YT is to see if there's a new story! Working my way through all of these amazing narrations! Thank you, Tony! 🧡🖤
What a beautiful description of a piano!
Enjoy!
Thank you, Tony.
I had never heard of this writer until now. You are correct: his descriptions and dialogue are lush! Your narration was so suitable for this story. I will seek out more on this author and listen to more of your narrations. :)
Yay, thank you!
Just gorgeous writing, and could not be betterl read~! Thanks.
Me sorted for tonight ❤
Great art choice. Scary yet comfy room.
Read us stories Tony ....... we love them all
I loved this story (and The Crimson Weaver as well). I agree that the description of the items is essential to the significance of their loss. It also sets the mood of the weird tale, very important to set us up for the desired emotional response to the eerie interlopers. I found it very interesting and enjoyable that this story inverts the trope of an exorcism or laying of a ghost. Instead, the living man is driven from the physical space and can never return. Great selection and great reading, I enjoy your performance more and more each year. Thank you.
Such a wonderful reading, thank you for a new author and story
Very enjoyable narration. Thanks, Tony!
Glad you enjoyed it
“In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”.
Oh boy! Thx Tony 💜
I fell asleep my first couple times trying to listen. This last time i woke up in the middle and when he was listing off his belongings that he saw in the room for the last time before the door shut, it made me think to myself "oh he just lost everything" akin to losing all of your belongings in a fire.
I absolutely loved this. I'm going to listen again right now while I'm at home alone. Not something that happens very often but I couldn't think of a better way to spend my alone time.
Thank you Tony, and i very much enjoyed your opinions and information at the end. I feel like I took in this story very much as you described. I always enjoy your talks at the end but this one i felt like you taught me a few things as well as having a fellow reader to compare thoughts with.
Thx much 🖤✌️
I must add I'm so sorry for what you are going through with Amazon. I was kicked off of Ebay and paypal for a reason I still to this day don't truly understand. It was to put it truthfully because someone at eBay didn't like my opinions or politics. I can't imagine how awful it must be to have this huge oligarchy essentially steal your work. Things are heading in a bad way when it comes to things like this. Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of a free and healthy society for a reason. God speed, i truly hope that there is something you can do about it. It really saddens me to think that all of you're writings are now not yours.
Best wishes and prayers for you going forward 🙏🏼
Thank you for your comments o the story but also your kind thoughts about Amazon. It’s not uncommon for the big platforms to suddenly decide you’ve infringed something without looking too deeply into it or even being rights. They gave us a platform we never had before but it seems they can take it away just as suddenly
@@ClassicGhost Yep exactly. It's the reasons why they can do it that bothers me most. Because sadly they can do it for anything they choose. It's one of those "slippery slope" kinda things, and we've all been given a glimpse into how those things turn out. The fact that you got a premade reply to your message that I'm sure was very in-depth says so much about how little they care. Smh, it's not a good path to be on for society imo. I truly hope you are able to get things rectified in the end, maybe not 100% but at least to the point where you aren't coming out on the losing end.
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It's the "I am god" feeling they get! A Power Trip! The "I gave you life, I can take it away" control over another! They have enough money & that makes them think they're equal to God or the government or an HOA! Money Hungry & Power Hungry! "You just stay in your sad little cubicle & maybe, Just Maybe, I won't hurt you. Unless I get a wild hair & maybe I will" Our future doesn't appear to be very bright, at this point!
I’m totally agree
About their casual unreflective tyranny but all tyrants fall. viz Ozymandias
GREAT story! Wonderfully narrated !🎉❤🎉 Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another great reading of wonderful ghost stories…well done Tony indeed 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😉 ☠️ 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
What a brilliantly original story.
Oh my pinball brain...
I just can't help if, but now all I can think about is...
"I'll tell you once, I won't tell you twice.
You'd better wise up Janet Weiss.
Your apple pie don't taste too nice
You'd better wise up, Janet Weiss"
Love all of your delicious offerings Tony.
Thank you!
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Sorry here about Amazon. You are very talented and always look forward to your work.
Thank you so much!
Well read.
Thanks!
Just as gripping this time around, Tony, with your vivid, image painting, narration. Agree completely with lesleykaygossen comment below. Thank you for all your hard work for us, Tony. Greatly appreciated.
Great story and narration! I have heard this author referenced bit have not heard much of his work. This is an amazing story. I like the guy he meets in the garden.
I love the graphic at the end. That would look awesome on coffee cups, shirts, and other merchandise!
This plot is really cool. I like the whole story, especially the description of the two variations of "the room."
Another author we lost too soon. Numerous authors have died in or as a result of their service. William Hope Hodgson cones to mind as well (I love his stories).
I love your chat at the end. I am a facilitator and trainer. I can teach virtually, but struggle to learn in that realm. The two to four-hour online training courses are bloody awful. I would rather be locked in a closet with two racoons than sit through that stuff.
Keep your chin up!
I got through the training in the end. Not sure l learned much. I simply couldn't pass the monitor and screen safety end of module quiz. Nobody seemed to mind though.
@@ClassicGhostgood to hear. I zone out or start counting butterflies when the training is terribly boring and poorly written.
Fitz James O'Brien's Story: "What Was It" has an entirety different voice. Very plain language, straight forward story telling. Very modern sounding to my ear.
Interesting lived and died near me in Maryland.
Excellent story! I really enjoy all of your videos. I'm an artist and I designed a book cover for my dad when he self published a few months ago. If you ever want someone to design a cover for you, I'd be delighted! Amazon sucks
how do i get i touch with you ?
@ClassicGhost aww, I do hope that this bore fruit.
I'm so pleased with your audience participation...almost as much as your storytelling gift
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Thank you
This story makes me appreciate Jack London all the more.
When he went into the garden, saying he didn't know he would never see his room again, I thought something would happen to either him or the house. I wasn't thinking of the title and didn't realize there was a third choice. Now, he doesn't know and we never find out who this enemy of the inhabitants of the house is, but he sounds disgusting and not a reliable source of information. When he goes back into his room and it is all changed, I feel he is not asking the right questions. What happened to the things in this room? Why have you changed them? Why are the men wearing masks? What is this society and what do they do? How did you come to join them? Why me? He might have enjoyed himself. But that's just me, I am not attached to his snowshoes or coat of arms on an uncomfortable cap. As for Amazon, you need to lodge a complaint. The trick is, who to? In the US, I would start with the Attorney General's office. I might call my state senator's office, just to ask where to go because his aide, who I have spoken with before, is intelligent and helpful. Good luck.
I could
speak to my MP but I fear he is on the side of the corporations
I enjoyed this a lot. I haven't read all the comments. Did anyone else think that maybe the main character was actually the one who died? That he passed on spending the afterlife with demons and ended up a solitary ghost?
I found this story immediately intriguing and continued from there replaying your narration of it entranced.
I couldnt shut out the moral of the story, but what was it exactly? Then there it was. I believe. [Please dont read if you havent listened to the story. Possible spoilers].
He lost his room, but why. Seems as though he made the right decision. Then I saw it.
Only Mr OBrian could confirm I assume. He says “The strange fancy seized me” which I overlooked at first as no different than when any of us fall into a day dream. However “fancy” and “seized” in one thought suggested to me the enchanting started earlier that afternoon, i.e. ‘look at all your possessions’ right. He even refers to himself as “king-like”.
Not sure if Im stating the obvious or conjuring conclusions which Im wiling to admit, but I dont think the part about Blokeeta was a side note to build a character/memory alone. Nore do I believe it was his imagination Blokeeta was playing the organ.
The night he played his piano, Bloleeta was also “seized”. Both he and the servant sold their soul to the enchanters. The servant wouldnt come when beckoned, yet with one ring of the golden bell he promptly responds.
Both roles were needed for their party. They werent apart of the party necessarily. They didnt enjoy the party but were thrust into the roles the enchanters needed. Perpetually playing the organ and responding to golden bells.
I dont think he rushed off in the cold morning. Suggesting a rather odd farewell between gentlemen. We can hear the pain flowing from the artist’s fingers “The last note he had touched faded off into a melancholy moan.”
Or, or I could be overthinking…that too I suppose.
I thought Amazon was Irish owned as if you call their customer service it’s usually an Irish number that calls you back. Sorry to hear you’ve had grief with them! How about publishing ebooks on your own website? I love what you do and hope that you keep it up
No they are American . or probably International / Globalist now
If you're able, please keep at Amazon until you reach a human being. Almost certain that the communications you've gotten so far were generated by AI. A human being might actually be able to help at least get you paid what you're owed. Similar to what happens time and again with You Tubers who are suddenly shut down -- they have to really dig for how to contact a human being to get the issue resolved. I really, really hope you can get it straightened out and at least get paid. Yeesh.
Oh yeah -- loved this story. Thanks so much!
At the moment my last email has gone unanswered. Perhaps a human is considering it?
@@ClassicGhost
Let's hope so. It's nightmarishly difficult to get past the AI, or so I hear. Good luck!
my last one has no reply for a week
@@ClassicGhost
GRR. I know there's a way to contact a human; just not sure how it's done. Maybe try the customer service AI and ask? So frustrating!
@@ClassicGhost
Tried to email you, but it didn't go through. Just... gads. Amazon is still selling your books. If they're not paying you for them, that's unbelievably messed up. What they're doing has to be illegal on so many levels.
I really wish I could help you resolve this. It's ... just ... so ... mind bogglingly unfair. ARGH.
I wonder if the protagonist of the story could be dead? The ending could be read as a ghost eternally locked away from the world of the living and fruitlessly trying to find his way back?
When he said “I wonder if I will ever find it” my thought was oh he’s stuck there, he dead!
Oh bit of a …excited to see…
Fabulous work as usual. Who did the Darkwave mix at the end, with the samples from 'Blood on Satan's Claw?'
Oh, it's right there in the summary, duh.
The Heartwood Institute!
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Tony I love your narration. I absolutely look forward to your posts. I am wondering if you would put a trigger warning at the beginning of the videos with animals being abused or killed. I am probably oddly sensitive but it physically hurts to hear. I understand if it’s too difficult. Thank you for considering!!!
Thanks for the warning, I’m browsing the comments as I’ve just started the video. It’s why that website “doesthedogdie” exists, it covers other animals and a bunch of other things, like horrible things happening to kids, unpleasant bodily functions, and lots of potentially triggering stuff. I first learned about it from a comment posted under the official trailer for The Meg a few years ago, with the little dog swimming and looking like he might’ve gotten chomped. He was ok, but thankfully I was mentally prepared to see that the whale was killed. It was still upsetting, though, and most animal deaths are totally unnecessary to the plot in most stories. It leaves me being more angry at the writers than the characters who are supposed to be emphasized as super evil by doing it.
And now I have to add that unnecessary racism is another thing here, too, with the horrible description of the black servant. It’s not meant to show that the narrating character is racist, it’s written as just another opportunity for vivid imagery about something that’s assumed to be relatable to the author’s contemporary readers. It’s why I couldn’t finish listening to The Lair of the White Worm. And like I said before, it distracts me from the story and leaves me angry at the writer instead of the character.
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Interesting that it struck you as having oriental influence...i thought the people were Faerie!
poignant as one approaches the end of one's life, memory fades and is replaced by objects. then objects fade in fires or 'homelessness or everyday loss. we find ourselves ghost=like, unattached to antthing at all but breath.
That’s lovely actually. I met a man who described going back to london where he was born and living for a few months in the same district he’d grown up in but everyone was gone. he described himself as an ‘October man’ .
Im hugely disturbed not by the story - which was not that enjoyable as its some ideas strung together in a drone way. It. Seems to have little point or intent or even message in fact.
No - what really upset me was the picture of the room. It looked inviting and I started to look closer and then realised it was all wrong, much like those faces of the pursuers in Jacobs ladder. Look at the clock face, looks at all the clocks, look at the items on the mantelpiece ? They are all wrong, they look like familiar items but they are just wrong. I assume an AI created it - and its very disturbing.
you are right. AI is weird on closer
inspection
If only the author would elaborate a little more.
When you started getting vague about the vets and talking about dogs having 'needs', I had a bizarre moment thinking you were about to say you had to get them some doggy viagra😂😂
PAVANE keith roberts would fit very well to your voice.
I have never read that. I see it was published in 1968. Technically in copyright, most probably
Hey Tony. I just went to Patreon and it says I'm not signed up with anyone. I didn't discontinue it...any idea what happened?
Patreon’s workings are a pure mystery to me. i am in my phone and can’t check members in the app. i’ll go check later
@@ClassicGhost Thx. Let me know if I need to do something on my end
patron have changed their layout and i can no longer see a way of searching patrons . the most simple reason is often using a different email address and not realising.
you are signed up as Misty Morton nkt Violet Femme :)
@@ClassicGhost duh 😬
There’s no such thing as Copice. It’s COPSE!
There is a verb to coppice though. sorry it made you so cross. perhaps a letter to the Telegraph is in order?
Fifteen minutes in and there's the racism.
What is this, HorrorBabble 2.0? 🙄
Great reading but think the writing is sub par compared to many others you have presented. I lasted 5 min.
A room is but a room-move on
These ancient stories are horribly racist at least by American standard and very dehumanizing depictions of African people BUT I do not hold it against you(you are merely a messenger),that is how it was written and the stories have to be told,it is the only way to reflect back to how far we may have come in literature
Not to my liking at all, sorry.
Hardly a story, just rhe meanderings of a vivid imagination. Not often I do not enjoy one of your excellent narrations, but this one beat me in afraid!!
Sorry to hear that
Like your channel but a lot of mispronunciations in this one.