Benighted
Author: first_name: John Boynton
last_name: Priestley
Language: English
Year: 1927

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