検索キーワード： 著者 "John Boynton Priestley" すべてのカテゴリー

When Phillip and Margaret Waverton's car skids off the road during a relentless storm, they stumble upon an eerie, isolated house that seems to hide more than just its creaky floors and dark corners. This old mansion is home to the peculiar Femms, whose oddities turn a simple shelter into a night of suspense and revelation. As the storm rages outside, the Wavertons and their spirited friend Roger Penderel quickly realize that they are not merely guests but unwitting participants in a chilling mystery. Behind the facade of hospitality lies a tangled web of secrets, where every creak of the ...

A miscellany of what the author describes as "Tales, Travesties and Epigrams" all of them very short. They were written while Priestley was serving in the British Army during the First World War and before he was to establish himself as a novelist. (Summary by Anthony Ogus)

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 ...