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PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. 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

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Publication: 16 Oct 2025, Penguin
ISBN: 9781405985802

Extent: 192 pages

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      PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. 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

      Paperback 
      Publication: 16 Oct 2025, Penguin
      ISBN: 9781405985802

      Extent: 192 pages

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