# Benighted

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- Book: [Benighted](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-b-priestley/benighted) ([Benighted.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-b-priestley/benighted.md))
- Authors: [J.B. Priestley](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-b-priestley)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0598-581-9
- Published: 2025-10-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A group of travellers find themselves marooned in the Welsh countryside by torrential rains and buffeting winds. Desperate to find shelter from the storm, they flee to a crumbling mansion, where they are reluctantly taken in by the cloistered, erratic Femm family. Strange on first meeting, the secretive family’s true peculiarities only become clear as the night unfolds… A gothic treat shot through with the dejection and anxiety of a world recovering from the horrors of the First World War, J. B. Priestley’s Benighted is a razor-sharp blend of dark social satire and even darker dread. ‘There are none too many stories comparable with this one’ - The New York Times