Benighted
John Boynton Priestley
Read by Ben Tucker
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm with no solace to be found. Fortunately they espy a craggy, old house on a hill right as the road they are on is washed away, and they stop to take shelter for the night. Inhabiting this house are the peculiar Femms, a wiry, creaking old man and his blustery, deaf sister, attended to by a grotesque, hulking brute of a mute butler named Morgan. They are told the master of the house, Sir Roderick, is confined upstairs in bed. What bizarre dark secrets will be uncovered on this haunting and mysterious night?
Thrill to Priestley's classic of gothic literature which was adapted into the influential film The Old Dark House in 1932 and again in 1963. - Summary by Ben Tucker (5 hr 58 min)
Chapters
Chapter I | 22:41 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter II | 30:02 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter III | 25:02 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter IV | 27:42 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter V | 43:15 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter VI | 25:09 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter VII | 21:35 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter VIII | 17:08 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter IX | 25:17 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter X | 31:24 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter XI | 24:25 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter XII | 18:56 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter XIII | 14:40 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter XIV | 15:17 | Read by Ben Tucker |
Chapter XV | 15:38 | Read by Ben Tucker |