Benighted (novel)

Benighted
First edition
Author	J. B. Priestley
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Drama, Thriller
Publisher	Heinemann
Publication date	October 1927
Media type	Print

Benighted (published in the United States as The Old Dark House) is a 1927 novel by the British writer J.B. Priestley. Priestley's second published novel, it is a story of post-First World War disillusionment. A number of travellers are forced to take shelter at an old country house during a storm.

Adaptations[]

It served as the basis for James Whale's film The Old Dark House in 1932 and its remake in 1963.^[1]

References[]

^ Goble p.376

Bibliography[]

Baxendale, John. Priestley’s England: J. B. Priestley and English culture. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Gale, Maggie B. J.B. Priestley. Routledge, 2008.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

v t J. B. Priestley
Novels	(1927) Benighted (1927) (1929 with Hugh Walpole) The Good Companions (1929) Angel Pavement (1930) (1932) (1932 with Gerald Bullett) (1933) (1936) (1938) Let the People Sing (1939) Blackout in Gretley (1942) Daylight on Saturday (1943) (1945) Bright Day (1946) Jenny Villiers (1947) Festival at Farbridge (1951) (1954) The Magicians (1954) (1961) The Shapes of Sleep (1962) (1964) Lost Empires (1965) Salt Is Leaving (1966) It's an Old Country (1967) (1968) (1968) (1971) Found, Lost, Found (1976)
Short stories	"" (1930)
Short story collections	The Other Place (1953) (1974)
Plays	Time Plays series The Good Companions (1931) Dangerous Corner (1932) (1932) Eden End (1934) Laburnum Grove (1934) (1935) (1935) Bees on the Boat Deck (1936) Time and the Conways (1937) I Have Been Here Before (1937) (1937) (1937) Music at Night (1938) When We Are Married (1938) Johnson Over Jordan (1939) (1940) (1942) They Came to a City (1943) (1944) An Inspector Calls (1945) Ever Since Paradise (1946) (1947) (1947) The Linden Tree (1947) (1949) Summer Day's Dream (1949) (1950) Dragon's Mouth (1952) (1953) (1953) (1953) The White Countess (1954) Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (1955) The Glass Cage (1957)
Poetry	(1918)
Screenplays	Sing As We Go (1934) Jamaica Inn (1939) Britain at Bay (1940) Last Holiday (1950)
Non-fiction	(1922) (1922) (1927) (1932) English Journey (1934) (1937 autobiography) We Live In Two Worlds (1937 documentary) (1939 autobiography) (1943) Margin Released (1962 autobiography) (1964) (1970) Over The Long High Wall (1972) (1975) (1977 autobiography)
Film and TV adaptations	The Old Dark House (1932 film) The Good Companions (1933 film) An Inspector Calls (1954 film) Angel Pavement (1957 TV series) The Good Companions (1957 film) The Old Dark House (1963 film) Out of the Unknown: "Level Seven" (1966 sci-fi series) Angel Pavement (1967 TV series) An Inspector Calls (1982 film) Lost Empires (1986) An Inspector Calls (2015 film)
Related	Jacquetta Hawkes (third wife) Mary Priestley (daughter)

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