STORY SYNOPSIS:
The story begins in the autumn of 1911 in Edwardian New England. Evangeline Jordan (Evie as her family calls her) travels from London to Welshport Island in Maine's Frenchman Bay eager to start her new life as the bride in an arranged marriage to Sebastian Lord, the heir to a wealthy and powerful publishing dynasty.
Evie's in-laws welcome her at the onset of her arrival and she is brought into the frigid family fold by the Lord Family’s stoic and superstitious matriarch Rebecca Lockwood-Lord, Rebecca's cunning and manipulative son Jacob, Jacob’s troubled 10 year old daughter Charlotte, her adoringly handsome new husband-to-be Sebastian and members of the household staff.
The happy events surrounding the much-anticipated wedding quickly turn upside down when the lure of supernatural forces expose secrets of a family plagued by betrayal, ghostly hauntings, devious deception, volatile romantic entanglements, greed and even murder.
Throughout the series Evie and the residents of Welshport must traverse the treacherous waters of Love and hate, Life and Death, and most of all, Good and Evil.
All the drama is centered in the small village on the island and the Lord Family's gothic estate, Tirymör House, that is surrounded by a shadowy forest of the same name. The village seems welcoming at first but constant rumors circulate of what truly happens behind the stone walls of Tirymör.
Can true love survive in the shadows?
Find out, by reading TO BENIGHT & BEGUILE!
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Written by John-Phillip Bettencourt, the writer of the Fan-Fiction Serial "THE RETURN OF DARK SHADOWS" (2015-2020), Benight continues the writer's passion and fascination with the genre of serialized Gothic Fiction with themes of mystery, secrets and dramatic family dynamics all contained within a world where the supernatural and strange come alive. A gothic soap at it's core, Benight, harkens back to and is inspired by such classics as Interview with a Vampire, Wuthering Heights, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Salem, The Others, and most notably Dan Curtis' Dark Shadows.
READER'S NOTICE
“To Benight & Beguile” is a Gothic Web-Serial written by John-Phillip Bettencourt based on original characters and stories. These stories are original by the writer and have no formal connection to any television series or any other material. Any similarities are purely coincidental. This project and the stories herein are meant for entertainment purposes only. No monetary gain has been acquired. Images of actors portrayed as characters are used for aesthetic and inspirational purposes only. I do not claim rights to own any of the photos nor do the actors in the images have any dealings with the story or the writer. © 2021-2024
“To Benight & Beguile” is a Gothic Web-Serial written by John-Phillip Bettencourt based on original characters and stories. These stories are original by the writer and have no formal connection to any television series or any other material. Any similarities are purely coincidental. This project and the stories herein are meant for entertainment purposes only. No monetary gain has been acquired. Images of actors portrayed as characters are used for aesthetic and inspirational purposes only. I do not claim rights to own any of the photos nor do the actors in the images have any dealings with the story or the writer. © 2021-2024
