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A small party of travelers is stranded by a violent storm and takes refuge in an isolated, decaying mansion whose odd residents and hidden histories gradually surface. Tension between practical anxieties and social pretensions fuels exchanges that reveal hypocrisy, fear, and suppressed resentments, while the house’s oppressive atmosphere produces episodes of dark humour and gothic unease. The narrative moves between storm-bound scenes and probing conversations, unfolding secrets that challenge characters’ identities and moral certainties, and ends on a note that leaves the balance between comic satire and unsettling ambiguity unresolved.

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Title: Benighted

Author: J. B. Priestley

Release date: May 24, 2024 [eBook #73673]

Language: English

Original publication: London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1927

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BENIGHTED

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Fiction
ADAM IN MOONSHINE

Essays, etc.
BRIEF DIVERSIONS
PAPERS FROM LILLIPUT
I FOR ONE
TALKING
OPEN HOUSE

Criticism
FIGURES IN MODERN LITERATURE
THE ENGLISH COMIC CHARACTERS
MEREDITH (English Men of Letters)
PEACOCK (English Men of Letters)

BENIGHTED

BY
J. B. PRIESTLEY

.....the bright day is done.
And we are for the dark.....

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD.

First published ... 1927

Printed in Great Britain at The Ballantyne Press by
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
Colchester, London & Eton