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Title: The Lost Room
Series Name: Timeless Terrors
Series Entry: 199
Author: Fitz-James O'Brien
Narrator: Jonathan Dunne
Original Publication: 1858
First Published In: Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Original Format: Short Story
The Lost Room by Fitz-James O'Brien is a pioneering work of weird fiction and psychological horror. Set during an oppressively hot summer night in a gloomy New York lodging, the story follows an unnamed narrator who begins to leisurely inventory the ordinary objects in his room—only to step outside and return to find the space completely transformed into a surreal, nightmarish realm of uncanny strangers and shifting reality. Blending domestic realism with existential dread, The Lost Room remains a classic masterpiece of early speculative and supernatural fiction. Narrated by horror author Jonathan Dunne.
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